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| | 3 | = Mid-Atlantic Crossroads Project Status Report = |
| | 4 | |
| | 5 | Period: 3Q09 |
| | 6 | == I. Major accomplishments == |
| | 7 | |
| | 8 | === A. Milestones achieved === |
| | 9 | * Integrate DRAGON with candidate GENI control framework |
| | 10 | * Integrate DRAGON/GENI control framework with DRAGON test-bed |
| | 11 | * Coordinate with the University of Maryland’s Clark School of Engineering Center for Minorities in Science and Engineering to explore involving one or more graduate student interns. |
| | 12 | * Delivery of Aggregate Manager preliminary design document |
| | 13 | |
| | 14 | === B. Deliverables made === |
| | 15 | * Participant in Cluster B Meeting at BBN to review work to date and plan for Spiral 2 |
| | 16 | * Continue as co-chair of the Substrate WG |
| | 17 | * Participated in GEC Seattle cluster meetings, demo, poster, and multiple presentations; the demo with !PlanetLab/Princeton exposed several bugs in the SFA (GENIwrapper) code that required fixing |
| | 18 | * Provided accounts to MAX research infrastructure GENI resources to other GENI researchers |
| | 19 | * Documented how to create slices on the private MAX GENI page for those provided accounts on the MAX infrastructure for use of GENI resources |
| | 20 | * Integrating functionality and interoperability of layer 2 Ethernet vLANS across ProtoGENI and SPP |
| | 21 | |
| | 22 | == II. Description of work performed during last quarter == |
| | 23 | |
| | 24 | === A. Activities and findings === |
| | 25 | Primary efforts this quarter focused on the completing MAX Spiral 1 |
| | 26 | deliverables: |
| | 27 | * Coordinate with the University of Maryland’s Clark School of Engineering Center for Minorities in Science and Engineering to explore involving one or more graduate student interns |
| | 28 | * Delivery of Aggregate Manager preliminary design document |
| | 29 | * Upgrading the software, firmware, and MEMS cards on the Movaz/Adva optical equipment serving the research infrastructure used to support GENI |
| | 30 | * Commitment to MAX deliverables for Spiral 2 |
| | 31 | * Managing the transition of Jarda and Chris to other employers and approval to subcontract Spiral 2 effort to Tom Lehman and Xi Yang, long time partners and collaborators at USC’s ISI-East |
| | 32 | '''Focus Next Quarter:''' |
| | 33 | * Extend our existing SOAP-based Aggregate Manager component to interoperate with other GENI Cluster participants, i.e, ProtoGENI |
| | 34 | * Complete paperwork for subcontract award to USC ISI-East for Spiral 2 support and helping ISI-East staff integrate into GENI community |
| | 35 | * GEC Salt Lake City meeting |
| | 36 | === B. Project participants === |
| | 37 | Chris Tracy, Jarda Flidr, and Peter O’Neil |
| | 38 | === C. Publications (individual and organizational) === |
| | 39 | None |
| | 40 | === D. Outreach activities === |
| | 41 | |
| | 42 | === E. Collaborations === |
| | 43 | * Engaged with USC ISI-East in Arlington, VA to bring up !PlanetLab node with FPGA card and enabled ability to reserve Gigabit slices of bandwidth between ISI and MAX !PlanetLab nodes. |
| | 44 | * Regular communication and ongoing support with GpENI: Great Plains Environment for Network Innovation on installing and running: |
| | 45 | * the DRAGON software suite and configuration support for the Ciena CoreDirector platform |
| | 46 | * a private !PlanetLab central deployment |
| | 47 | * interconnecting to the Kansas City ProtoGENI switch |
| | 48 | * Helped with the physical interconnection of the ProtoGENI switch and SPP hardware installations in !McLean, VA; pictures available here: http://groups.geni.net/geni/ticket/189 |
| | 49 | * Provided testing results and deployment experiences of Princeton geniwrapper code to the planetlab-devel mailing list |
| | 50 | * Recommended SOAP Python library to GENI researchers seeking SOAP/WSDL tool support http://pywebsvcs.sourceforge.net/ |
| | 51 | * Support for GUSH demo finding !PlanetLab resources across MAX and GpENI |
| | 52 | * Considerable time was spent working with Adva to upgrade the software release version and firmware on all of the DRAGON Movaz optical equipment. The MEMS and FPGA/CPLDs cards were brought up to the latest manufacturing standards as well. |
| | 53 | * Ongoing discussions with EnterpriseGENI/Stanford discussions for experimentation with !OpenFlow and SOAP/WSDL efforts to effectively interoperate with !PlanetLab |
| | 54 | |
| | 55 | === F. Other Contributions === |
| | 56 | * Updated and further documented our GENI web pages to summarize our efforts, demos (with video), and documentation: |
| | 57 | * https://geni.maxgigapop.net/twiki/bin/view/GENI/WebHome |
| | 58 | * https://geni.maxgigapop.net/twiki/bin/view/GENI/Publications |
| | 59 | * Detailed information for our GENI AM can now be found on our wiki under the main Software page: |
| | 60 | * http://geni.maxgigapop.net/twiki/bin/view/GENI/Software |
| | 61 | * There are two guides -- the first one explains how to download the code from our repository and compile it via the !NetBeans IDE: |
| | 62 | 1. http://geni.maxgigapop.net/twiki/bin/view/GENI/AggMgrCompile |
| | 63 | * This guide walks you through setting up the NetBeans IDE to have the correct libraries (Apache Axis2) and explains how to autogenerate the Java skeleton code from the WSDL file. |
| | 64 | 2. The next guide explains how to setup the server and deploy the compiled code to it: |
| | 65 | * http://geni.maxgigapop.net/twiki/bin/view/GENI/AggMgrDeploy |
