Project Number

1706

Project Title

netKarma: GENI Provenance Registry
a.k.a. NETKARMA

Technical Contacts

PI: Beth Plale Beth Plale
Chris Small ​chsmall@cs.indiana.edu

Participating Organizations

​School of Informatics and Computing
Indiana University Bloomington

GPO Liaison System Engineer

​Vic Thomas

Scope

The project collect and represents provenance for experiments conducted on the GENI platform. The provenance of an experiment is relevant information collected at experiment plane, control plane, and measurement plane. The provenance results will be available in a GENI Provenance Registry (netKarma) but can also be used to augment other collection mechanisms, for instance at the instrument level.

​NetKarma is based on the ​Karma provenance collection and representation service that has been used to collect scientific workflows in diverse applications including satellite imagery pipeline (NASA funded), Linked Environments for Atmospheric Discovery (LEAD, NSF funded), and the Life Science Grid (Lilly Corp. funded).

Current Capabilities

netKarma demonstrated provenance capture from Gush at GEC 7.

Milestones

MilestoneDate(NETKARMA: S2.a overview)?
MilestoneDate(NETKARMA: S2.b webpage)? ​Click here for project web page
MilestoneDate(NETKARMA: S2.c identify tools)?
MilestoneDate(NETKARMA: S2.d demo)? Demo Poster​
MilestoneDate(NETKARMA: S2.e identify partners)?
MilestoneDate(NETKARMA: S2.f experience report)?
MilestoneDate(NETKARMA: S2.g user doc)?
MilestoneDate(NETKARMA: S2.h prototype)?

Project Technical Documents

​NetKarma project page maintained by the ​Data to Insight Center of the ​Pervasive Technology Institute at Indiana University

NetKarma: a tool for obtaining a provenance-based record of experimentation​ (overview document)

Software

Code to allow provenance capture of experiments using GUSH ​gush2netkarma-1.0.tar.zip. This code does not store events to the Karma system; it simply writes to a file that is then used to create a visual graph.

Presentations and posters

"GEC8_IU_NetKarma Poster8x11.pdf" GEC8 poster​
Netkarma Presentation given at GEC7 Planetlab cluster meeting​
GEC7 poster​
GEC6 poster​

Quarterly Status Reports

4Q09 Status Report
1Q10 Status Report

Spiral 2 Connectivity

This project will use existing Indiana University address and connections. No addition connectivity is needed as initial data sources are globably availible on the Internet or over R&E networks.

Related Projects

Initial integration

GushProto
ProvisioningService (Raven)

Possible future integration

PGTools
DigitalObjectRegistry
GMOC
OnTimeMeasure