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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
- BEN: Breakable Experimental Network
- Renaissance Computing Insititute (RENCI), Chapel Hill, NC
- Duke University, Durham, NC
- Infinera Corporation, Sunnyvale, CA
Related Projects
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
- MilestoneDate(ORCAAUG: S4.a GEC12 Cluster D roadmap review)?
- MilestoneDate(ORCAAUG: S4.b ORCA intermediate code release and documentation)?
- MilestoneDate(ORCAAUG: S4.c GEC13 Cluster D roadmap review)?
- MilestoneDate(ORCAAUG: S4.d ORCA Dungeness 4.0 code release and documentation)?
- MilestoneDate(ORCAAUG: S4.e GEC14 Cluster D roadmap review)?
- MilestoneDate(ORCAAUG: S4.f ORCA Dungeness 4.1 code release)?
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]
- ORCABEN/ORCAAUG Post-GEC10 Status Report
- ORCABEN/ORCAAUG Post-GEC11 Status Report
- ORCABEN/ORCAAUG Post-GEC12 Status Report
- ORCABEN/ORCAAUG Post-GEC13 Status Report
- ORCABEN/ORCAAUG Post-GEC14 Status Report
Technical Documents
See the ORCA/BEN project
Software Releases
See the ORCA/BEN project
Connectivity
See the ORCA/BEN project