1. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation ProtoGENI and PGAugmentation Spiral 2 Year-end Project Review University of Utah, Internet2, HP Labs PI: John Regehr, Co-PI: Robert Ricci PIs at other Institutions: Matt Zekauskas, Rick McGeer Utah Staff: Leigh Stoller, Jon Duerig, Gary Wong, David Johnson, Dan Reading Utah Students: Srikanth Chikkulapelly, Tarun Prabhu, Matt Strum Aug 25, 2010

2. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation 2 Project Summary: ProtoGENI Aug 25, 2010 This project includes a large-scale integration of existing and under-construction systems that provide key GENI functionality. The integration consists of four key components: A nationwide, high-speed backbone on Internet2’s wave infrastructure A set of sliceable, user programmable components embedded in this backbone, including PCs and “programmable hardware” NetFPGA cards A set of subnets, including a variety of wireless networks, residential broadband, and programmable edge clusters, that will be connected to this backbone Software from the University of Utah, based on an enhanced version of the Emulab testbed management software to manage the backbone, many of the subnets, and to provide a common point of integration between them.

3. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation 3 Project Summary: PGAugmentation Aug 25, 2010 This effort will integrate additional projects with the ProtoGENI control framework (Cluster C). It will provide new Cluster C projects with the software, standards, and technical assistance required to integrate their projects into the ProtoGENI control framework, and to refine the design of ProtoGENI to make smooth integration possible. These projects span a wide range of the GENI ecosystem, including international collaboration, instrumentation and measurement, hybrid environments involving multiple network technologies, early experiments, and aggregate deployments of sliceable networks, routers, storage, and hosts.

4. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation 4 Milestone & QSR Status: ProtoGENI IDMilestoneStatusOn Time? On Wiki? GPO signoff? S2.aIdentify Security POC and provide draft input to Spiral Security Review 1 Completed, POC indentified (Ricci), provided feedback On timeYY S2.bGENI Software Integration Release 2Completed, software released (we take ‘stable’ snapshots every 2 months) On timeYY S2.dDraft input to GENI Spiral Security Review 2 Security review not received, so we can’t provide input Incomp. S2.eProtoGENI Backbone resources available to other clusters Completed: SPP, GpENI, and MAX have made VLANs with our CM EarlyYY S2.fImproved interfaces for viewing operational state, history, and usage Completed: added admin. interfaces for viewing current and historical utlization < 2 mo. late YY S2.gGENI Software Integration Release 2Completed, part of our regular releasesEarlyYY S2.hAcquire and deploy 3 additional backbone network nodes Incomplete, due to up-in-the-air status of hardware requirements in I2 POPs Incomp. QSR: 4Q2009Not completedIncomp. QSR: 1Q2010Not completedIncomp. QSR: 2Q2010Completed< 2 wk. late YY Aug 25, 2010

5. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation 5 Milestone & QSR Status: PGAugmentation IDMilestoneStatusOn Time? On Wiki? GPO signoff? S2.aComponent Manger API document (Version 2) Completed, available on protogeni.netOn timeYY S2.bRSpec extension specificationCompleted, available on protogeni.netOn timeYY S2.cReference Component MangerCompleted, released in own source code repository, has been a bigger success than we expected < 2 mo. late YY S2.dGuide for experimenters using ProtoGENI Completed: really more of a guide for developers, available on protogeni.net < 2 mo. late YY S2.eGuide for projects implementing services on ProtoGENI Incomplete: will be done this week> 2 mo. late S2.fComponent Manager API document (Version 3) Incomplete, but: we participated in the design GENI AM API, which I propose to replace this milestone > 2 mo. late S2.gUpdated Reference Component Manager Implementation Incomplete: will be done before end of Spiral 2, and will include GENI AM API < 2 mo. late QSR: 4Q2009Not completedIncomp. QSR: 1Q2010Not completedIncomp. QSR: 2Q2010Completed< 2 wk. late YY Aug 25, 2010

6. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation 6 Accomplishments 1: Advancing GENI Spiral 2 Goals Continuous Experimentation –Worked directly with several early experimenters, and supported GENI Alpha effort –Gave tutorials at GEC8 and GENI Experimenters Workshop –Have added features based on user feedback (eg. disk loading) –81 users created 1,789 slices since Jan. 1, 2010 –Mailing lists: geni-users: 487 messages, geni-dev: 774 messages (since Jan 1) Integration –Ref. CM has been a bigger success than we expected: almost a dozen have been brought up –Several projects in Cluster C have demonstrated remarkable integration milestones –Bi-weekly cluster conference calls, much time spent on phone and email with cluster members Instrumentation & Measurement –Have worked to get the many I&M projects in cluster C to collaborate –Made switch counters available to LAMP and GMOC Interoperability –Made backbone resources available to some Cluster B members (SPP, GpENI, MAX) –Contributed to design of GENI AM API, enabled in ProtoGENI code now –Contributed to “SFA 2.0” Security –Participated in GMOC emergency shutdown exercise Aug. 25, 2010

7. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation 7 Accomplishments 2: Other Project Accomplishments Current federation includes 21 CMs/SAs –8 are consistently up and stable –7 are up intermittently – generally ones that are in early development –6 are consistently down, disabled in clearinghouse International collaborations –Have been in contact with international groups interested in joining GENI: KISTI, TWISC –Hosting visiting scholar from KISTI, Woojin Seok, who is interested in GENI –Matt Strum gave a talk about ProtoGENI at KISTI –Participated in GENI/FIRE federation workshop Outreach to national and regional networks –Organizing committee, QUILT (regional network) workshop –GENI talk at Internet2 fall member meeting 2009 –GENI talk at WestNet meeting, winter 2010 Moved Internet2 links from wave to MPLS Moved to a decentralized source code repository –Makes it much easier for sites to maintain their own local branches Co-chair, CFWG Hosted GEC6 Aug 25, 2010

8. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation 8 Issues Synchronized deadlines are hard on everybody, but especially the CFs –Everybody needs everything all at the same time… –GECs and demos are primary causes of this –Bright spot: relatively frequent milestones means end of spiral is not one of these times GECs –Very frequent, and not all time spend on preparing, traveling, recovering furthers GENI goals –Consider moving to 2 per year? –Consider expanding role of tutorials and mini-workshops at GECs? Contracting was a huge time sink last year –Our Solicitation 2 contracts were signed 4/9/2010, just 4 1/2 months ago Uncertainty WRT national networks slows node deployment in POPs Aug. 25, 2010

9. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation 9 Plans Remainder of Spiral 2 –This week: Finish service implementer’s guide (PGAugmentation) –By end of month: Finish specification, order I2 POP hardware (ProtoGENI) –Ultimate goal is to get deployed by GEC9 (PGAugmentation) –By end of next month: Updated version of reference CM with GENI AM API (PGAugmentation) Spiral 3 thoughts –Might want to re-evaluate PGAugmentation milestones – focus less on refreshes of APIs on a set schedule, and more on some interoperability tools (like RSpec translations) –Users, rather than developers, are going to get more important, requiring different kind of support –Will have to figure out plans for POP equipment hosting after Solicitation 1 funding ends Aug. 25, 2010