1. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation1April 8, 2014, Testbeds as a Service: GENI Heidi Picher Dempsey Internet2 Annual Meeting April 8, 2014 www.geni.net

2. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation2April 8, 2014, GENI provides a virtual lab for networking and distributed systems research and education GENI started with exploratory, rapid prototyping 5 years ago GENI design assumes federation of autonomously owned and operated systems Yearly prototyping cycle for an idea: develop, integrate and operate Experimenters use the testbed while we are building it out Even prototypes have “activist” users, and must evolve to satisfy those users or fade away. Two of five original design frameworks predominate now. “Horizontal” dataplane slicing as a service (or sometimes just engineered) “Vertical” control plane APIs to negotiate and allocate resources Funds in hand Needs funding

3. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation3April 8, 2014, GENI: Infrastructure for Experimentation GENI provides compute, network, and wireless resources that can be connected in experimenter-specified Layer 2 topologies.

4. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation4April 8, 2014, GENI: Infrastructure for Experimentation GENI provides compute resources that can be connected in experimenter specified Layer 2 topologies.

5. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation5April 8, 2014, Multiple GENI Experiments run Concurrently Resources can be shared between slices Experiments live in isolated “slices”

6. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation6April 8, 2014, GENI is “Deeply Programmable” I install software I want throughout my network slice (into routers, switches, …) or control switches using OpenFlow Experimenters can set up custom topologies, protocols and switching of flows

7. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation7April 8, 2014, United States GENI Resources Flexible network / cloud research infrastructure Over 1800 users (March, 2014) 52 racks installed/in progress 10 WiMAX (50 LTE planned) VMs, bare metal nodes, SDN switches (OpenFlow 1.0), software routing or OVS OpenFlow, WiMAX/LTE base stations and clients all available to experimenters. Metro Research Backbones Internet ISP Regional Networks Campus g g g Legend GENI-enabled hardware Layer 3 Control Plane Layer 2 Data Plane

8. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation8April 8, 2014, International Federation Activities International Federation API for clearinghouse functions. Supported for multiple clearinghouses. Joint GENI/FIRE (US/EU) capability demonstrated this year (not operating yet) GENI dataplane slices extend to other research networks by special arrangement now (Japan, Korea, Australia) Shared monitoring prototype planned for 2014 Investigating/prototyping standards for experimenter-driven dataplane resource negotiation and provisioning NSI, OSCARS GENI Stitching SDN Exchanges

9. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation9April 8, 2014, Campus Requirements for Shared Services Sites provide space, power, security (as with other campus IT resources) Provide at least 1Gbps OpenFlow/SDN path from rack to campus boundary * Provide connection from rack to on-campus resources (varies by campus, usually SDN)* Operate with up-to-date GENI-specified software (e.g. AM API, OpenStack) Provide no-cost access to rack resources for GENI authorized users at other campuses Provide points of contact for GENI response team (see http://groups.geni.net/geni/attachment/wiki/ComprehensiveSecurityPgm/Aggregate Provider Agreement v3.pdf ) * http://groups.geni.net/geni/attachment/wiki/ComprehensiveSecurityPgm/Aggregate Provider Agreement v3.pdf * No STP or MAC learning

10. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation10April 8, 2014, Process Requirements for Shared Services Standard installation processes http://groups.geni.net/geni/wiki/GENIRacksHome/RacksChecklistStatus http://groups.geni.net/geni/wiki/GENIRacksHome/RacksChecklistStatus System Acceptance Testing Production: InstaGENI, ExoGENI Provisional: Dell (OpenGENI), Cisco Shared site resource and access details http://groups.geni.net/geni/wiki/GeniAggregate

11. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation11April 8, 2014, Process Requirements (cont.) Site confirmation tests with logs and RSPECs http://groups.geni.net/geni/wiki/GENIRacksHome/InstageniRacks/Confirmatio nTestStatus http://groups.geni.net/geni/wiki/GENIRacksHome/ExogeniRacks/Confirmation TestStatus Emergency Stop and Legal, Law Enforcement and Regulatory Event Coordination (GMOC at Indiana University) Shared monitoring infrastructure and shared operations (6 major ops groups)

12. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation12April 8, 2014, University of Kentucky Ops Monitoring Dashboard of Collector

13. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation13April 8, 2014, Network Engineering Requirements for Shared Services  L2 dataplane engineering –campuses, regional, core and international networks –many vendors and technologies –1-100GBE interfaces (GENI shares with other R&E projects) –Shared or exclusive experimenter VLANs on interfaces depending on experiment (mostly exclusive) SDN (OpenFlow 1.0) switches with experimenter’s and sometimes R&E network’s controllers (many vendors, varying implementation of standards) Standard Internet control plane Internet2 AL2S cross-connects and ION http://groups.geni.net/geni/wiki/GENIOE SSTopologiesPerformance - IONtoAL2SPerformance  

14. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation14April 8, 2014, Network Engineering (continued) GENI dynamic stitching available at 12 racks via Internet2 ION http://groups.geni.net/geni/wiki/Ge niNetworkStitchingSites Over 16,000 stitched slivers since November, 2013 OESS GENI Stitching Aggregate coming soon Stitching operations monitoring prototyping with MAX, Internet2

15. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation15April 8, 2014, Slice credentials Software: Clearinghouse and Aggregates Clearinghouse: manages users, projects and slices –Standard credentials shared via custom API or new Common CH API –GENI supported accounts: GENI Portal/CH, PlanetLab CH, ProtoGENI CH Aggregate: provides resources to GENI experimenters –Typically owned and managed by an organization –Speaks the GENI Aggregate Manager API (AM API) –http://groups.geni.net/geni/wiki/GAPI_AM_API_V3 most recent versionhttp://groups.geni.net/geni/wiki/GAPI_AM_API_V3 –http://trac.gpolab.bbn.com/gcf download reference implementation (gcf), OMNI command line clienthttp://trac.gpolab.bbn.com/gcf –Examples: PlanetLab, Emulab, GENI racks on various campuses Create & Register Slice Researcher Aggregate Manager API - listResources - createSliver … Aggregate Manager Aggregate Resources users slice s clearinghouse projects Tool

16. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation16April 8, 2014, GENI Slivers Sliver: One or more resources provided by an aggregate –e.g. Bare machines, virtual machines, VLANs Backbone #1 Backbone #2 Campus #3 Campus #2 Access #1 Commercial Clouds Corporate GENI suites Other-Nation Projects Research Testbed Campus My GENI Slice My slice contains slivers from many aggregates.

17. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation17April 8, 2014, Software: RSpecs RSpecs: Lingua franca for describing and requesting resources –“Machine language” for negotiating resources between experiment and aggregate –Experimenter tools eliminate the need for most experimenters to write or read Rspec <rspec xmlns="http://www.protogeni.net/resources/rspec/2" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.protogeni.net/resources/rspec/2 http://www.protogeni.net/resources/rspec/2/request.xsd" type="request" > <node client_id="my-node" exclusive="true"> RSpec for requesting a single node

18. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation18April 8, 2014, Reserving Resources using RSpecs and the AM API Experimenter tools and aggregates talk to each other using resource specifications (RSpecs) and the GENI Aggregate Manager API (GENI AM API) Advertisement RSpec: What does an aggregate have? Request RSpec: What does the experimenter want? Manifest RSpec: What does the experimenter have? Aggregate Manager Experimenter Tool ListResources(…) Advertisement RSpec CreateSliver(Request RSpec, …) Manifest RSpec ListResources(SliceName, …) Manifest RSpec What do you have? I have … I would like … You have … What do I have? You have …

19. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation19April 8, 2014, GENI Design Activities Open to all http://groups.geni.net/geni/wiki/GeniDesign http://groups.geni.net/geni/wiki/GeniDesign Mailing lists http://lists.geni.net/mailman/listinfohttp://lists.geni.net/mailman/listinfo geni-annouce@geni.net most generalgeni-annouce@geni.net Regular calls and design reviews announced through interest group mailing lists IRC/chat (mostly operations) http://groups.geni.net/geni/wiki/HowTo/ConnectToGE NIChatRoom http://groups.geni.net/geni/wiki/HowTo/ConnectToGE NIChatRoom GENI Engineering Conferences (3 per year) June 21-24, 2014 University of California, Davis (Travel grants available)