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GENIExploring Networks of the Future

Now it’s getting interesting

Chip ElliottJuly 21, 2010

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A deep debt of gratitude

• Thank you, thank you, thank you– Debbie Crawford– Ty Znati

• The GENI community owes you a deep debt of gratitudefor your government service within NSF

• We tremendously appreciate everything you have done to help advance the GENI community and at-scale experimentation in the United States

• Now you can rest a little bit, but please don’t disappear!

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Spiral DevelopmentGENI grows through a well-structured, adaptive process

GENI Prototyping Plan

Use

Planning

Design

Build outIntegration

Use

• GENI Spiral 2Early experiments, meso-scale build, interoperable control frameworks, ongoing integration, system designs for security and instrumentation, definition of identity management plans.

• Envisioned ultimate goal Example: Planning Group’s desired GENI suite, probably trimmed some ways and expanded others. Incorporates large-scale distributed computing resources, high-speed backbone nodes, nationwide optical networks, wireless & sensor nets, etc.

• Spiral Development ProcessRe-evaluate goals and technologies yearly by a systematic process, decide what to prototype and build next.

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Meso-scale buildout in Spiral 2“GENI-enabled” US campuses and backbones

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Enhancing the buildout in Spiral 3Solicitation 3 deadline – August 20, 2010

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Adding “GENI racks”in campuses and throughout net

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Control framework interoperabilityvia the GENI Aggregate Manager API 1.0

Spiral 1: tightly coupled Now: open & interoperable

Each aggregate was tightlylinked to exactly one cluster

and control framework

Control frameworks / Clearinghouses

Aggregates Aggregates

“GENI AM API” lets youmix and match aggregates

with control frameworks

Control frameworks / Clearinghouses

PlanetLab, ProtoGENI, OpenFlow are now interoperable – more to follow

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GENI Alpha Demonstrations

• Major demos planned for GEC 9– Many in this room are creating Alpha demos– They’re being shaken down across the national backbones,

various campuses, and GPO lab– Many were demo’d last night– Those “ready for prime time” will be featured prominently at GEC 9– Audience will include industry & government leaders

• GENI Alpha Demonstrations will highlight:– meso-scale experimentation – diversity of research infrastructure– interoperable GENI control frameworks

Campus involvement will be showcased – please help!

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News - GPO Lab is running

• Experiment resource pool– Modest collection of PlanetLab,

ProtoGENI, OpenFlow, etc.– Open to GENI researchers– Relatively stable

• Shakedown point for meso-scale build– “Another end” for campus integrations– Accessible via I2, NLR, IP tunnels– Note: staff is stretched rather thin!

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Instrumentation and measurementArchitecture taking shape, implementations solicited

2nd I&M Workshop, June 2010

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Experiments !

• Shakedown experiments in progress– “The brave pioneers”

• News: GENI Experimenters Workshop– Co-chaired by Guru Parulkar and Jennifer Rexford– Held at Princeton, June 29-30– 54 researchers participated (pairs of prof + student)– Dozens of quick-turn proposals submitted to NSF– Likely outcome: excellent experimental research starts

ramping up in late summer / early fall

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A lively and interesting mixGENI Tutorials and Workshops

• Yesterday morning (Tuesday)– Ilia Baldine, Resource Representations in GENI– Nick Feamster, BGPmux tutorial– Justin Cappos, Seattle GENI tutorial– Rob Ricci, ProtoGENI tutorial

• Tomorrow afternoon (Thursday)– Brandon Heller, OpenFlow tutorial– Jon Turner, SPP tutorial– Steve Schwab, ABAC mini-workshop

Want to give a tutorial? What are we missing?

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Starting early operations

• Campus / OMIS Working Group discussions– Emergency stop (2nd draft document)– Campus requirements (1st draft document)– Security-related issues

• Other plans in the works– Concept of federated GENI operations

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Looking forward to Spiral 3

• Annual reviews this summer– Some trimming & retasking may occur– GENI’s general outline is becoming clearer– Think about how you might want to reorient your work

• Major trends in Spiral 3– Rising number of live research experiments– Rapidly growing meso-scale build-out– Gradual transition to reliable operations – Continued creation & integration of tool sets

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GENI Solicitation 3 Deadline – August 20, 2010

• Solicitation areas1. Aggressively grow meso-scale build

1. More regional & backbone sites

2. New “GENI Racks” (eg rack of PCs with GENI-enabled switch)

2. GENI Instrumentation system (build & deploy)

3. Operations / experiment support / training / education & curriculum development

Suggestion: talk with us before writing your proposal!

Want to join a team??

http://groups.geni.net/geni/wiki/Solicitation3FocusPoints

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These are exciting timesall around the world!

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The GENI project is actively collaborating with peer efforts outside the US, based on equality and arising from direct, “researcher to researcher” collaborations.

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