| 44 | | (forthcoming) |
| | 44 | Things are going well so far. All eight campuses, and both backbone providers, are up and running, and the first four baselines were completed very close to as-intended. The obstacles along the way have proved informative as well; for example, we tried some different approaches to the problem of how to log the results of the experiments running in each slice. We'll share more details about that in the final report. |
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| | 46 | * Plastic Slices landing page: http://groups.geni.net/geni/wiki/PlasticSlices |
| | 47 | * Project plan: http://groups.geni.net/geni/wiki/PlasticSlices/ProjectPlan |
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| | 49 | We've been using five artificial experiments, each with somewhat different traffic characteristics, each on two slices (one slice using each of the core VLANs). The first three baselines included large bursts of traffic (when each experiment sent about 1 GB of data more or less as fast as it could); the fourth included a steadier flow of constant traffic. We concluded that there weren't any non-artificial experiments ready to run in this context, so we're staying with the same artificial experiments for the next four baselines. |
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| | 51 | * General baseline info: http://groups.geni.net/geni/wiki/PlasticSlices/BaselineEvaluation |
| | 52 | * Slice overview: http://groups.geni.net/geni/wiki/PlasticSlices/SliceStatus |
| | 53 | * Baseline 1 detailed results and analysis: http://groups.geni.net/geni/wiki/PlasticSlices/BaselineEvaluation/Baseline1Details |
| | 54 | * Baseline 2 detailed results and analysis: http://groups.geni.net/geni/wiki/PlasticSlices/BaselineEvaluation/Baseline2Details |
| | 55 | * Baseline 3 detailed results and analysis: http://groups.geni.net/geni/wiki/PlasticSlices/BaselineEvaluation/Baseline3Details |
| | 56 | * Baseline 4 detailed results and analysis: http://groups.geni.net/geni/wiki/PlasticSlices/BaselineEvaluation/Baseline4Details |
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| | 58 | Comprehensive monitoring data -- about slices, slivers, servers, nodes, etc -- is flowing to the GMOC, and is visible online via the SNAPP UI (http://gmoc-dev.grnoc.iu.edu/api-demo/data/). We've used the GMOC's XMLRPC interface to download raw data and process it for easier slice-specific analyses of Plastic Slices experiments. We think that these type of web page displays may be useful to other GENI campuses and experimenters who want to create their own customized pages, and we'll be sharing the details in our final report. |
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| | 60 | * Aggregate throughput, by slice, over all 144 hours of Baseline 3: http://groups.geni.net/geni/wiki/PlasticSlices/BaselineEvaluation/Baseline3Traffic |
| | 61 | * The same data for Baseline 4 (which had a more continuous traffic pattern), as well as more detailed resource information, such as traffic between client/server pairs: http://groups.geni.net/geni/wiki/PlasticSlices/BaselineEvaluation/Baseline4Traffic |
| | 62 | * A quick check page for all the hosts currently participating in Plastic Slices: http://monitor.gpolab.bbn.com/nagios/cgi-bin/status.cgi?hostgroup=tango-hosts&style=hostdetail&sorttype=1&sortoption=8 |
| | 63 | * Many more detailed monitoring graphs are available via links on this page: http://monitor.gpolab.bbn.com/tango/ (Note that it doesn't include things which have not reported recently, e.g. are down for whatever reason.) |
| | 64 | |
| | 65 | Our next interim report will include results from the next four baselines, and more information about our plans for the final few weeks of the project. |
