1. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation GENI Status and Outlook Chip Elliott July 21, 2009 www.geni.net

2. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation 2 July 21, 2009 Outline Current status GENI Solicitation 2 “Meso-scale” prototyping Spiral 2

3. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation 3 July 21, 2009 Chip Elliott (GPO) NetSE Council Ellen Zegura (Chair)Tom Anderson (UW)Joe Berthold (Ciena)Charlie Catlett (Argonne)Mike Dahlin (UT Austin) Joan Feigenbarum (Yale)Stephanie Forrest (UNM)Jim Hendler (RPI)Michael Kearns (U.Penn)Ed Lazowska (UW)Peter Lee (CMU) Larry Peterson (Princeton) Jennifer Rexford (Princeton)Alfred Spector (Google) And not shown... Roscoe Giles Helen Nissenbaum

4. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation 4 July 21, 2009 GENI Conceptual Design Infrastructure to support at-scale experimentation Mobile Wireless Network Edge Site Sensor Network Federated International Infrastructure Programmable & federated, with end-to-end virtualized “slices” Heterogeneous, and evolving over time via spiral development Deeply programmable Virtualized

5. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation 5 July 21, 2009 Spiral Development GENI grows through a well-structured, adaptive process GENI Prototyping Plan Use Planning Design Build outIntegration Use Spiral Development Process Re-evaluate goals and technologies yearly by a systematic process, decide what to prototype and build next. Each spiral is 12 months long Spiral 1... October 1, 2008 - October 1, 2009 we are here Spiral 2... October 1, 2009 - October 1, 2010

6. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation 6 July 21, 2009 Federation GENI grows by “gluing together” heterogeneous infrastructure Goals: avoid technology “lock in,” add new technologies as they mature, and potentially grow quickly by incorporating existing infrastructure into the overall “GENI ecosystem” NSF parts of GENI Backbone #1 Backbone #2 Wireless #1 Wireless #2 Access #1 Corporate GENI suites Other-Nation Projects Other-Nation Projects Compute Cluster #2 Compute Cluster #1 My experiment runs across the evolving GENI federation. My GENI Slice This approach looks remarkably familiar...

7. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation 7 July 21, 2009 Infrastructure examples in Spiral 1 DRAGON core nodes Mid-Atlantic Crossroads WAIL, U. Wisconsin-Madison DieselNet, U. Mass Amherst ViSE, U. Mass AmherstSPPs, Wash U. ORBIT, Rutgers WINLAB

8. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation 8 July 21, 2009 World-class expertise in GENI Partners Internet2 and National Lambda Rail 40 Gbps capacity for GENI prototyping on two national footprints to provide Layer 2 Ethernet VLANs as slices (IP or non-IP) National Lambda Rail Up to 30 Gbps nondedicated bandwidth Internet2 10 Gbps dedicated bandwidth

9. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation 9 July 21, 2009 Key Goals for GENI Spiral 1 Drive down critical technical risks in GENI’s concept GENI Clearinghouse Components Aggregate A Computer Cluster Components Aggregate B Backbone Net Components Aggregate C Metro Wireless Create my slice Goal #1 Fund multiple, competing teams to develop GENI Clearinghouse technology, encourage strong competition within the first few spirals Goal #1 Fund multiple, competing teams to develop GENI Clearinghouse technology, encourage strong competition within the first few spirals Goal #2 Demonstrate end-to-end slices across representative samples of the major substrates / technologies envisioned in GENI Goal #2 Demonstrate end-to-end slices across representative samples of the major substrates / technologies envisioned in GENI

10. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation 10 July 21, 2009 Key goals are being met Remarkably fast progress in Spiral 1 Several clusters are now demonstrating... –Control frameworks that manage multiple types of infrastructure –End-to-end slices across a wide range of technologies Annual project reviews well underway –Sitting down together to ensure shared understanding of milestones, achievements, challenges –Planning “summer push” to achieve Spiral 1 goals –Starting to plan Spiral 2 –Almost all projects have now been reviewed –GPO hopes to exercise options without funding gaps Weds, 12:15 – GPO update on reviews & Year 2 funding

11. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation 11 July 21, 2009 GENI Spiral 1 Provides the very first, national-scale prototype of an interoperable infrastructure suite for Network Science and Engineering experiments Creates an end-to-end GENI prototype in 6-12 months with broad academic and industrial participation, while encouraging strong competition in the design and implementation of GENI’s control framework and clearinghouse Includes multiple national backbones and regional optical networks, campuses, compute and storage clusters, metropolitan wireless and sensor networks, instrumentation and measurement, and user opt-in Because the GENI control framework software presents very high technical and programmatic risk, the GPO has funded multiple, competing teams to integrate and demonstrate competing versions of the control software in Spiral 1 Nothing like GENI has ever existed; the integrated, end-to-end, virtualized, and sliceable infrastructure suite created in Spiral 1 will be entirely novel.

12. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation 12 July 21, 2009 Outline Current status GENI Solicitation 2 “Meso-scale” prototyping Spiral 2 This section describes a GPO proposal to NSF which is currently under review, and which may or may not be funded. This is very important

13. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation 13 July 21, 2009 Goals of Solicitation 2

14. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation 14 July 21, 2009 Proposals received in Solicitation 2 Total: 91 proposals received @ $48M Instrumentation Experiments How was the coverage? Workflow Security

15. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation 15 July 21, 2009 GPO Selections  Provide excellent coverage in filling GENI’s critical gaps  Jump-start trials of international federation with leading research teams in Europe, Japan, South Korea, and Brazil  Substantially augment GENI with significant cloud computing capabilities at a very low cost, including OpenCirrus cloud services (currently 768 cores, 10 TB storage) in the PlanetLab cluster, and Amazon’s EC2, S3, and EBS services in the ORCA cluster.  Mesh smoothly into Spiral 1 clusters This slide describes a GPO proposal to NSF which is currently under review, and which may or may not be funded.

16. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation 16 July 21, 2009 This slide describes a GPO proposal to NSF which is currently under review, and which may or may not be funded.

17. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation 17 July 21, 2009 This slide describes a GPO proposal to NSF which is currently under review, and which may or may not be funded.

18. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation 18 July 21, 2009 This slide describes a GPO proposal to NSF which is currently under review, and which may or may not be funded.

19. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation 19 July 21, 2009 This slide describes a GPO proposal to NSF which is currently under review, and which may or may not be funded.

20. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation 20 July 21, 2009 This slide describes a GPO proposal to NSF which is currently under review, and which may or may not be funded.

21. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation 21 July 21, 2009 Emerging Spiral 2 GENI footprint This slide describes a GPO proposal to NSF which is currently under review, and which may or may not be funded.

22. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation 22 July 21, 2009 How do the new projects mesh in? When do the new contracts start? –Reminder: GPO proposal to NSF is under review; by no means a sure thing; range of possible outcomes –Our estimate – September (2009) –If funded, we will negotiate with new projects, then fund –IPR agreements were slow in Spiral 1, but we may have sped it up by requiring letter from contracts office in proposals How does integration work? –New projects will begin integration during Spiral 2 –Should not have huge effect on most current projects –Except for control frameworks –They already know about the potential work, and their funding will increase to help with significant increase in workload

23. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation 23 July 21, 2009 Outline Current status GENI Solicitation 2 “Meso-scale” prototyping Spiral 2 This section describes a GPO proposal to NSF which is currently under review, and which may or may not be funded. This is very important

24. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation 24 July 21, 2009 Meso-scale prototyping Rapid progress in GENI prototyping has created a remarkable opportunity to accelerate the creation of an end-to-end GENI infrastructure suite for “meso-scale” experiments, leveraging GENI- enabled commercial hardware, across more than a dozen campuses and two national research backbones This slide describes a GPO proposal to NSF which is currently under review, and which may or may not be funded.

25. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation 25 July 21, 2009 Benefits of meso-scale prototyping Create a compelling infrastructure for entirely new forms of network science and engineering experimentation at a much larger scale than has previously been available Stimulate broad community participation and “opt in” by early users across 13 major campuses, which can then grow by a further 21 campuses as the build-out progresses, with a strong partnership between researchers and campus infrastructure operators Forge a strong academic / industrial base by GENI- enabling commercial equipment from Arista, Cisco, HP, Juniper, and NEC, with software from AT&T Labs and Nicira. This slide describes a GPO proposal to NSF which is currently under review, and which may or may not be funded.

26. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation 26 July 21, 2009 More than a dozen leading US universities Meso-scale GENI campus prototypes This slide describes a GPO proposal to NSF which is currently under review, and which may or may not be funded.

27. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation 27 July 21, 2009 WINLAB lead WiMax campus prototypes NEC WiMax Base Stations This slide describes a GPO proposal to NSF which is currently under review, and which may or may not be funded.

28. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation 28 July 21, 2009 Stanford lead OpenFlow campus prototypes This slide describes a GPO proposal to NSF which is currently under review, and which may or may not be funded.

29. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation 29 July 21, 2009 OpenFlow backbone prototypes through Internet2 and NLR (notional) This slide describes a GPO proposal to NSF which is currently under review, and which may or may not be funded.

30. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation 30 July 21, 2009 OpenFlow prototypes (current plans,1 of 2) This slide describes a GPO proposal to NSF which is currently under review, and which may or may not be funded.

31. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation 31 July 21, 2009 OpenFlow prototypes (current plans, 2 of 2) This slide describes a GPO proposal to NSF which is currently under review, and which may or may not be funded.

32. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation 32 July 21, 2009 ShadowNet prototype Internet2 backbone (ProtoGENI sites) Juniper M7i Routers This slide describes a GPO proposal to NSF which is currently under review, and which may or may not be funded.

33. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation 33 July 21, 2009 Outline Current status GENI Solicitation 2 “Meso-scale” prototyping Spiral 2 - October 1, 2009 to October 1, 2010

34. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation 34 July 21, 2009 Spiral 2’s central goal By end of Spiral 2, GENI control frameworks should be running a significant number of real experiments Many major implications for the prototypes –Fairly continuous operation (90% availability?) is hard –Security architecture and mechanisms must be in place & in use –And we need... Reasonably friendly user interface for researchers We need documentation, and probably training tutorials Sample experiments Very hard, but we must do it

35. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation 35 July 21, 2009 Ongoing efforts Continue integration of control frameworks and aggregates Increase interoperability (avoid balkanization of control frameworks) Build up instrumentation & measurement tools Address Identity Management for researchers (GPO believes Shibboleth is a good starting point, but community must come to a conclusion)

36. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation 36 July 21, 2009 So what does this mean – for you? GPO is starting detailed Spiral 2 milestone discussions –For clusters as groups, and for each individual project –As for Solicitation 2 projects... stay tuned... If you don’t understand everything, don’t panic –You don’t have to solve all the GENI issues –Decide what your project is good at, emphasize that –Keep doing your planned work –Don’t expand to fill the universe If you are just joining the GENI project –The GPO will work closely with you to help out –We understand that there is a learning curve Bottom line: other people should be using your stuff

37. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation 37 July 21, 2009 Get involved! Get your campus involvedTalk to GPO Get your own testbed integrated into GENI Talk to project PIs and/or GPO Get your company or organization involved Talk to project PIs and/or GPO International collaborationsGPO will be glad to help make connections

38. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation 38 July 21, 2009 GENI is now truly underway Spiral 1 looks like a success –Several clusters are already demonstrating key goals –Not every project will succeed... –... but a large majority are doing very well indeed Spiral 2 will be challenging but a huge opportunity –GPO believes the individual projects are ambitious but achievable –Integration is likely to have some successes, some failures –The critical goal is to get real research experiments running GENI is now well and truly underway !