| | 1 | = Progress Report for the GENI Experiment Engine: GEC 20 = |
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| | 3 | == Contract Deliverables == |
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| | 5 | - Demonstrated real experiment using GEE at GEC-20 |
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| | 7 | - Presented GEE at GEC 20 Experimenter Tools Session |
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| | 9 | - Demonstrated GENI-Wide File System at GEC-20 |
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| | 11 | == Technical Progress == |
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| | 13 | - Integrated the GENIExperimentEngine slice with the VirtualTopologyService slice, conserving GENI physical machines and giving an avenue for programmable networking in future using GEE |
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| | 15 | - Brought the GEE Portal to production quality and integrated it with GENI's authentication service. |
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| | 17 | - Developed demonstration-quality network file system over Swift |
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| | 19 | - Brought up the Beanstalk messaging service and deployment commands to use it in a slicelet. |
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| | 21 | - Developed a live monitoring service for the GENIExperimentEngine [[http://www.lively-web.org/users/rick/GEEReport.html]] |
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| | 23 | - Developed and tested a reverse proxy to permit slices to offer location-based services over port 80. |
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| | 25 | - Removed a number of security holes in the portal. |
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| | 27 | - Expanded range of actions offered through the portal as planned in GEC 19 status |
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| | 29 | == Ongoing Issues == |
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| | 31 | - We remain highly reliant on GENI VLANs for the networking elements of the GENI Experiment Engine, and we need a guarantee that the VLANs that we allocate will be stable over, essentially, the lifetime of GENI -- at a minimum, we require some notice before a VLAN is torn down |
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| | 33 | - Need to continually renew the GEE slice on GENI, and reallocate slivers. The GEE, particularly the GEE Compute Engine, is designed as a set of long-running, stable services, not short-run experiments. |
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| | 35 | == Outreach Activities == |
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| | 37 | - GENI Experiment Engine presentation at GEC-20 |
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| | 39 | - GENI Experiment Engine tutorial at US Ignite summit |
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| | 41 | == Plans for GEC 20 == |
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| | 43 | - Bring filesystem and proxy to production-quality implementation |
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| | 45 | - Cleanup bug reporting and logging in the portal, and add alerts on errors, etc. |
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| | 47 | - Recruit a small number of experimenters to participate in GEE beta program |
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| | 49 | - Investigate design alternatives for GEE Slicelet hosts. We currently run in PlanetLab nodes, but could potentially do this in OpenVZ ProtoGENI images, and/or !OpenCloud images |
