Project Number

1643

Project Title

Programmable Edge Node
a.k.a. UMLPEN

Technical Contacts

Principal Investigator: Yan Luo ​Yan_Luo@uml.edu
Student Developer: Chunhui Zhang ​czhang@cs.uml.edu
Student Developer: Tim Ficarra ​timothy_ficarra@student.uml.edu Student Developer: Eric Murray ​eric_murray@student.uml.edu

Participating Organizations University of Massachusetts, Lowell MA

Scope

Design and performance evaluation of a Programmable Edge Node with x86 Multi-Core Processors and Network Processors

Milestones

MilestoneDate(UMLPEN: Acquire HW for single PEN)?
MilestoneDate(UMLPEN: Develop PEN SW modules)?
MilestoneDate(UMLPEN: Develop measurement and diagnostic tools)?
MilestoneDate(UMLPEN: Integrate PEN with GENI control framework)?
MilestoneDate(UMLPEN: Deployable PEN available)?
MilestoneDate(UMLPEN: Architecture and Design Documents)?
MilestoneDate(UMLPEN: GENI Outreach)?

Project Technical Documents

Background Reading
Virtualization Technologies: ​XEN and ​OpenVZ
In this project, we choose to use OpenVZ for its virtualization of network stacks and moderate isolation.

Network Processors: ​IXP2850 and ​Acceleration-cards
Network processors (NPs) are multicore multithreaded processors optimized for network packet processing.

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UMLPEN Architecture

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Relevance of UMLPEN to GENI

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Node Mapping and Measurement using PEN in ProtoGENI framework

Quarterly Status Reports

​4Q08 Status Report
​1Q09 Status Report

Spiral 1 Connectivity

The earliest connectivity requirement will be towards the end of year 1. The PEN deployment will either be located in UML labs or within one of the GENI substrate infrastructure networks. This will be determined during the year. IP connectivity between the PEN node and the UML lab (if they are not colocated) will be required after deployment. Layer 2 virtual ethernet connections are not required. Updates on this deployment decision can be monitored through the milestone UMLPEN: Deployable PEN available.

GPO Liaison System Engineer

Harry Mussman

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