GENI Engineering Conference (GEC8)

July 21, 2010

Jason Liu, PIJulio Ibarra, Co-PIHeidi Alvarez, Co-PI

Florida International University

PrimoGENI: Extending GENI to Brazil and Internationally

Outline

• About PrimoGENI– What is PrimoGENI?– The Team and the Collaborators

• Extending GENI to Brazil– Technological Resources– People Resources

• Milestones

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PrimoGENI• PrimoGENI adds real-time network simulation capabilities to GENI• PrimoGENI will enable large-scale experiments consisting of simulated,

emulated and physical network entities• PrimoGENI will provide a fully functional aggregate as an integral part of

the GENI control framework architecture• Experimenter tools will be integrated with the ProtoGENI suite of tools• Support for large-scale

simulation and emulation is

currently missing in GENI• PrimoGENI is built upon the

Parallel Real-time Immersive

Network Modeling Environment

(PRIME)– https://www.primessf.net

/bin/view/Public/PRIMEProject• http://groups.geni.net/geni/wiki

/PrimoGENI for more information 3

PrimoGENI development at FIU

• PrimoGENI development is sourced at the Modeling and Networking Systems Research Group at FIU

• Led by Prof. Jason Liu, School of Computer Science• PhD students:

– Miguel Erazo: emulation, TCP

congestion control– Ting Li: network traffic/topology

modeling– Nathanael Van Vorst: system support

for simulation and emulation infrastructure• Undergraduate students:

– Eduardo Tibau, Eduardo Pina4

Center for Internet Augmented Research Assessment (CIARA)

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• CIARA is a State of Florida Type II Research Center at FIU• CIARA services institutional collaborators in the U.S. and internationally as a bridge linking researchers and educators with the infrastructure and knowledge they need to perform their work

AmLight

PrimoGENI

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• FIU is one of the 15 largest universities, based on enrollment, and the largest Hispanic Serving Minority Institutions in the continental U.S.

• 40,000 + students • 2,900 + full‐time faculty • 150,000 + alumni• Top-tier Research University (Carnegie Foundation)• Vision: A leading student-centered urban public research

university that is locally and globally engaged.• Mission: As an anchor public institution in South Florida, FIU is

committed to providing quality learning, state-of-the-art research and creative activity, and problem-solving engagement.

PrimoGENI – A GENI Aggregate for Large-scale Network Simulation/Emulation Experiments

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Substrate Layer: Compute, storage, network, and

other physical resources.

Meta Resource Layer:• Provides a

VM environment by which to instantiate virtual resources upon physical resources

• VMs are created to run PRIME real-time simulator and emulated hosts

Simulation and Emulation Execution Layer:• Maps simulator

instances and emulated hosts to the meta resources at the layer below

• Establishes inter-VM communication channels between emulated hosts and real-time simulator instances

• Establishes connections to the emulation gateway for traffic to and from slivers on other aggregates

Experiment Layer:• Activated once

slivers are created and the slice is operational

• Provides environment for researchers to run their experiments

To other Slivers

I’d like more information

Go to http://groups.geni.net/geni/wiki/PrimoGENIDesignDocument

PrimoGENI: Extending GENI to Brazil

• Technological Resources – AmLight: NSF IRNC for USA-Latin America– SouthernLight, AMPATH– Kyatera, Project GIGA– Florida LambdaRail– National LambdaRail and Internet2

• People Resources– NSF Partnerships for International Research

Experiences (CI-PIRE) at FIU

Project GIGA

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AmLight: Americas LightPaths

• AmLight: NSF IRNC Production Network (ProNet) award for USA-Latin America science & engineering research and education, OCI-0963053– Interconnects key points of aggregation– Provides operation of production infrastructure, …

• Other IRNC ProNet Awards:– TransPAC3: Connecting Asia and the US, Indiana U.– ACE: America Connects to Europe, Indiana U.– TransLight/PacificWave: US-Australia & Asia-Pacific, U. Hawaii– GLORIAD: Russia, China, Korea, Canada, Netherlands, Nordic

countries; U. Tennessee– Jennifer Schopf’s slides for information on more awards

http://events.internet2.edu/2010/spring-mm/agenda.cfm?go=session&id=10001195&event=910

• Collaborate with the IRNC community and– Leverage this international infrastructure 9

AmLight: Linking the Americas and Beyond• AmLight East:

– Miami-Sao Paulo• 2x10G

• AmLight West: – Tijuana-Los Angeles

• 2x1G waves, increasing to 10G

• AmLight Andes: – Sao Paulo-Santiago:

• 1G wave

• AmLight Central: – El Paso-Juarez:

• 1G wave

• Linking all R&E networks in the Americas

• Linking with international R&E networks via key exchange points:

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AMPATH: Operating as an international exchange point for the southeast U.S. and Latin America• Connects AmLight

East at Miami• Connections to USA

and international R&E backbone networks

SouthernLight (SoL): Brazil’s distributed International Exchange Point, located in Sao Paulo. • A project of FAPESP

and RNP• Connects ANSP, RNP

and RedCLARA• Connects AmLight

East at Sao Paulo.

AtlanticWave: 10G ethernet transport with • Add/drops at AMPATH,

SoX, MAX and MANLAN

• Atlantic rim peering with U.S. and international R&E and Federal backbone networks

StarLight: operated by Northwestern University and University of Illinois at Chicago• Layer2 path via FLR• Exchange with Europe

and Asia• Exchange via iGENI

MAN LAN: Supported by Internet2, Indiana University and NYSERNet• Operating northeast

U.S. international exchange point to Europe

• Layer2 path via A-Wave

SouthernLight (SoL)• SouthernLight is a

collaboration between the Academic Network of Sao Paulo (ANSP) and RNP, Brazil’s national R&E network

• Layer2 connections to– Kyatera: an optical testbed

network in Sao Paulo state– GIGA: an optical testbed

network in collaboration between RNP and CPqD (Brazil’s telecommunications research agency)

• RNP and CPqD have both signed MOUs with the GPO

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Project GIGA

CI-PIRE: A Global Living Laboratory for Cyberinfrastructure Application Enablement

• Engages highly qualified science and engineering students at all ranks

• Supports 6 weeks to full semesters in length to research sites in Argentina, Brazil, China, France, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands and Spain– Collaborations with Prof. Fabio Kon at USP

• New collaborator added this year to the CI-PIRE• Receiving one student who is at IBM T.J. Watson, internship under

Dilma Silva, an IBM researcher and a former USP faculty member– Prof. Estaban Clua at UFF, received 6 students in 2009 and 3

students in 2010• Provides fellowships to qualified PhD students, and

limited tuition and stipend to students who maintain their collaborations after their travel

• For engagements in GENI and Future Internet collaborations, please contact us

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Extending PrimoGENI to Brazil Milestones

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Create PrimoGENI@Miami aggregateInterconnect PrimoGENI@Miami aggregate to ProtoGENI Clearing HouseInstantiate PrimoGENI@Kyatera aggregateInterconnect with PrimoGENI@Miami aggregateInstantiate PrimoGENI@GIGA aggregateInterconnect with PrimoGENI@Miami aggregate Demonstrate interoperability with ProtoGENI Clearing house and PrimoGENI aggregates at Miami, Kyatera and GIGA

Future Internet Activities in Brazil• 1st Workshop on

Experimental Research on the Future Internet in Gramado, Brazil

• May 24-28, 2010• Chairs:

– Michael Stanton, National Education and Research Network/Fluminense Federal University, Brazil

– Marcos Rogerio Salvador, Center for Research & Development in Telecommunications, Brazil

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Conclusions

• PrimoGENI development and deployment are on schedule with milestones

• Milestones achievements are based upon:– Technological resources: leveraging through

AmLight, SouthernLight, AMPATH, Kyatera, GIGA, FLR, Internet2, and NLR

– People Resources: leveraging through NSF PIRE grant at FIU, and in collaboration with Brazil

• PrimoGENI and GENI extensions to international networks via exchange points, IRNC links and leveraged collaborations

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Project GIGA

Thank YouJason Liu <liux@cis.fiu.edu>Julio Ibarra <julio@fiu.edu>

Heidi Alvarez <heidi@fiu.edu>

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