wiki:Mid-Atlantic Crossroads-3Q09-status

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  1. Mid-Atlantic Crossroads Project Status Report
    1. I. Major accomplishments
      1. A. Milestones achieved
      2. B. Deliverables made
    2. II. Description of work performed during last quarter
      1. A. Activities and findings
      2. B. Project participants
      3. C. Publications (individual and organizational)
      4. D. Outreach activities
      5. E. Collaborations
      6. F. Other Contributions

Mid-Atlantic Crossroads Project Status Report

Period: 3Q09

I. Major accomplishments

A. Milestones achieved

  • Integrate DRAGON with candidate GENI control framework
  • Integrate DRAGON/GENI control framework with DRAGON test-bed
  • 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.
  • Delivery of Aggregate Manager preliminary design document

B. Deliverables made

  • Participant in Cluster B Meeting at BBN to review work to date and plan for Spiral 2
  • Continue as co-chair of the Substrate WG
  • 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
  • Provided accounts to MAX research infrastructure GENI resources to other GENI researchers
  • Documented how to create slices on the private MAX GENI page for those provided accounts on the MAX infrastructure for use of GENI resources
  • Integrating functionality and interoperability of layer 2 Ethernet vLANS across ProtoGENI and SPP

II. Description of work performed during last quarter

A. Activities and findings

Primary efforts this quarter focused on the completing MAX Spiral 1 deliverables:

  • 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
  • Delivery of Aggregate Manager preliminary design document
  • Upgrading the software, firmware, and MEMS cards on the Movaz/Adva optical equipment serving the research infrastructure used to support GENI
  • Commitment to MAX deliverables for Spiral 2
  • 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

Focus Next Quarter:

  • Extend our existing SOAP-based Aggregate Manager component to interoperate with other GENI Cluster participants, i.e, ProtoGENI
  • Complete paperwork for subcontract award to USC ISI-East for Spiral 2 support and helping ISI-East staff integrate into GENI community
  • GEC Salt Lake City meeting

B. Project participants

Chris Tracy, Jarda Flidr, and Peter O’Neil

C. Publications (individual and organizational)

None

D. Outreach activities

E. Collaborations

  • 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.
  • Regular communication and ongoing support with GpENI: Great Plains Environment for Network Innovation on installing and running:
    • the DRAGON software suite and configuration support for the Ciena CoreDirector platform
    • a private PlanetLab central deployment
    • interconnecting to the Kansas City ProtoGENI switch
  • 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
  • Provided testing results and deployment experiences of Princeton geniwrapper code to the planetlab-devel mailing list
  • Recommended SOAP Python library to GENI researchers seeking SOAP/WSDL tool support ​http://pywebsvcs.sourceforge.net/
  • Support for GUSH demo finding PlanetLab resources across MAX and GpENI
  • 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.
  • Ongoing discussions with EnterpriseGENI/Stanford discussions for experimentation with OpenFlow and SOAP/WSDL efforts to effectively interoperate with PlanetLab

F. Other Contributions