Cluster D conference call on Friday, May 21, 2010 Attendees: [[BR]] Ilia Baldine (RENCI)[[BR]] Anirban Mandal Harry Mussman (GPO) [[BR]] Joe Mambretti (Northwestern)[[BR]] Jim Chen [[BR]] Mike Zink (UMass) [[BR]] Emmanuel Cecchet [[BR]] Keren Bergman (Columbia) [[BR]] Onjin (Oklahoma) [[BR]] Wenjie (Ohio State) [[BR]] Tsi (Wayne State)[[BR]] Hongwei [[BR]] Rudra Dutta (NCState) Agenda: [[BR]] 0) Upcoming GENI solicitation:[[BR]] + Joe: From Chip Elliott, it includes:[[BR]] - Enhanced meso-scale: compute facilites; wireless extensions [[BR]] - Will there be support for experiments?[[BR]] + Harry: no comment [[BR]] + Harry: List of campuses/sites interested in adding WiMAX testbed on wiki at: [http://groups.geni.net/geni/wiki/WiMAXInteg#a5.3GENIWiMAXKits link] [[BR]] - Currently, the following campuses/sites have indicated an interest in obtaining their own WiMAX campus deployment kits: - University of North Texas (Prof Kamesh Namuduri on 3/16) [[BR]] - Florida International University [[BR]] - UC San Diego (Prof B. S. Manoj) [[BR]] - Wayne State University (Prof Hongwei Zhang) [[BR]] - NC State (Porf Rudra Dutta) [[BR]] 1) Taking stock of known unresolved problems:[[BR]] + Brian Lynn has issues with pre-mature close[[BR]] + Ilia: Under study; expect to respond next week[[BR]] 2) New networking driver structure[[BR]] + Ilia: How-to sent out[[BR]] - Needs to be reviewed[[BR]] - In trunk, coming out in 2.1 release[[BR]] 3) GEC[8 and 9] prep[[BR]] + Joe: 2x 10GB links between Stalight and UCSD[[BR]] + Ilia: Have handler for OpenFlow; could demo.[[BR]] + Ilia: Another network decription workshop at GEC8[[BR]] 4) Connectivity to Wayne State and Ohio State[[BR]] + Joe: Ready to go from Starlight to Merit racks; [[BR]] + Hongwei: Merit to OARnet to Ohio State; also Merit to Wayne State[[BR]] + Ilia: Working with MAX on interoperability[[BR]] + Ilia: working toward translation from protoGENI to NDL [[BR]] - Harry: Srikanth also working on topic[[BR]] 5) GEC9 demo proposals, accepted: [[BR]] a) Joe (Northwestern): iGENI, HP and Ericsson: video transcoding on clouds over dynamically provisioned networks. Prototype at GEC8. HP wants to include OpenFlow. [[BR]] b) David (UMass): Now-casting (short-term weather forcasting), GEC7 demo plus more computation [[BR]] c) Jeff Chase (Duke): Dynamically stand-up ASs with custom click routers [[BR]]