wiki:ORCAAUG

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    1. Project Number
    2. Project Title
      1. Technical Contacts
      2. Participating Organizations
      3. Related Projects
      4. GPO Liaison System Engineer
    3. Scope
    4. Operational Capabilities
      1. Milestones
    5. Spiral 4
      1. Status Reports and Demonstrations
      2. Technical Documents
      3. Software Releases
      4. Connectivity

Project Number

1700

Project Title

Integration and Augmentation of a Prototype GENI Control Plane (ORCA) for a Metro-Scale Optical Testbed (BEN)
a.k.a. ORCAAUG

Technical Contacts

Principal Investigator: Ilia Baldine Ilia Baldine (RENCI)
Co-Principal Investigator: Jeff Chase ​chase@cs.duke.edu ​http://www.cs.duke.edu/~chase/ (Duke)
Yufeng Xin (NDL-OWL development, experiment embedding), RENCI
Anirban Mandal (actor registry, XMLRPC controller, policy development), RENCI
Chris Heermann (BEN Operations, Cluster D connectivity), RENCI
Victor Orlikowski (Software testing, system administration, documentation), Duke University
Aydan Yumerefendi (codebase maintenance, documentation, core enhancements) – core development team, RENCI
Prateek Jaipuria (ImageProxy, Shibboleth integration) development), Duke University
Muzhi Zhao (ImageProxy development), Duke University)

Participating Organizations

Related Projects

ORCA/BEN project

​Project web site maintained by RENCI, including ORCA code and ticketing system

​New Internet Computing Lab (NICL)
​Open Resource Control Architecture (ORCA)
​Shirako
​BEN: Breakable Experimental Network

GPO Liaison System Engineer

Harry Mussman ​hmussman@geni.net

Scope

This project augments the ORCA/BEN project which was started at the beginning of Spiral 1, and which provides the code for the ORCA control framework.

This project will augment the features of the current ORCA Control Framework prototype and integrate work from other relevant GENI projects to substantially increase the capabilities of the framework in the areas of:

(1) unified measurement and experimenter tools, particularly physical layer measurement
(2) identity and trust management based on Shibboleth and SAML
(3) cloud computing substrates
(4) resource description and allocation mechanisms, policies and algorithms

As the capabilities of ORCA are increased, they will be made available to the associated projects in Cluster D.

In particular, it will assist in the integration of the Integrated Measurement Framework (IMF) and related tools being developed in a separate project, to enable advanced cross-layer experiments in the BEN regional optical network.

It will integrate Shibboleth identity providers (IdPs) and SAML security assertions into ORCA to support: IdP-endorsed credential attributes; the use of attributes for authorization; and proxy authentication, which would enable users to delegate credentials to software entities acting on their behalf.

It will add Orca interfaces (handler and driver plugins) for edge cluster substrates managed by Eucalyptus, a popular virtual/cloud computing systems, and integrate it into ORCA. Eucalyptus is an open-source Xen-based virtual cloud manager designed to resemble Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) and cloud storage services.

In cooperation with the ORBIT project, it will extend the Network Description Language (NDL), an OWL-based ontology schema, by developing common ontology specifications and a common set of tools, to better describe all resources being integrated into ORCA and ORBIT. And, it will enable dynamic resource discovery, including the ability to query a broker about resources available.

Operational Capabilities

See the ORCA/BEN project

Milestones

Spiral 4

Status Reports and Demonstrations

​ORCABEN: 4Q09 Status Report
​ORCABEN: 1Q10 Status Report
​ORCA/BEN and Cluster D Demo at GEC7 on March 16, 2010
​ORCABEN/ORCAAUG: 2Q10 Status Report
​ORCA/BEN Demo at GEC8
​ORCA/BEN Slides at GEC8
​ORCA/BEN and ORCAAUG Spiral 2 Review

​ORCA/BEN Slides at GEC9
​Nowcasting Demo
​ORCABEN/ORCAAUG: Post-GEC9 Status Report
[ ORCA/BEN Demo at GEC10]
[ ORCA/BEN Slides at GEC10]

Technical Documents

See the ORCA/BEN project

Software Releases

See the ORCA/BEN project

Connectivity

See the ORCA/BEN project