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SURF #3751 and CIENA #3315

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SC2014 Technical program presentations & involvement by UvA group members.

  • SCinet INDIS: INDIS - Innovating the Network for Data Intensive Science. Chaired by Cees de Laat, Sunday 9h00-12h00, room 274.
  • SCinet INDIS: Ronald van der Pol, Marijke Kaat, Bart Gijsen, Piotr Zuraniewski and Daniel Cabaca Romao, "OpenFlow Based Multi-Domain VPN Prototype Architecture,", paper (pdf).
  • SCinet workshop: Cosmin Dumitru, Ralph Koning, Ana-Maria Oprescu, Paola Grosso, Cees de Laat, and Yuri Demchenko, "Enabling user-centric data-intensive application deployment in clouds using the Open Cloud Exchange", paper (pdf).
  • NDM workshop: Cees de Laat, "Smart Cyber Infrastructure for Big Data Processing", talk (pdf).

Demo's

  1. "Ultra Secure Networks in the Cloud.", Marc Makkes, Leon Gommans, Cees de Laat, Robert Meijer (CIENA booth).
  2. "Multi-Domain High-Bandwidth SDN's", Ralph Koning, Cees de Laat (CIENA booth).
  3. "MultiCloud Application Scheduling via Open Cloud Exchange ( OCX)", Cosmin Dumitru, Yuri Demchenko, Cees de Laat (SURF, CIENA and GEANT booth).
  4. "Topology Exchange and Path finding", R. Koning, S. Konstantaras, M. Zivkovic, P. Grosso (UvA) and F. Iqbal, F. Kuipers (TU Delft).
  5. "Interconnecting Cloud Computing Clusters using Bandwidth on Demand Networks", Daniel Romao, Ralph Koning (SURF booth).
  6. "Green Routing in OpenNaaS, Open Green Network as a Service", Daniel Romao, Hao Zhu (SURF booth).
  7. "Valuing the greenness of NRENs", Daniel Romao, Paola Grosso, Arie Taal (SURF booth).
  8. "CoCo - Multi-domain multi-point virtual private networks using OpenFlow", Ronald van der Pol, Marijke Kaat, Bart Gijsen, Piotr Zuraniewski, Daniel Cabaca Romao (SURF booth)




MultiCloud Application Scheduling via Open Cloud Exchange ( OCX)




ExoGeni NSI handler demo by Daniel Romao @ SURF booth




OpenNaaS demo by Daniel Romao at SURF booth





SCInet SC14 network (pdf) - press release

http://sc14.supercomputing.org/content/scinet




Demo abstracts

1

"Ultra Secure Networks in the Cloud.", Marc Makkes, Leon Gommans, Cees de Laat, Robert Meijer (CIENA booth).

An ultra secure network environment, generated by a push of a button in a cloud, is demonstrated. The secure network counters an attack, by changing its topology, moving itself to another cloud and by many other mechanisms. The demonstration emphasizes that the cloud provides an ideal environment to create such secure networks, as a service, by specialist companies or a whole industry. And since cyber security is important for every organization, the demonstration shows that the future of the Internet is in the cloud.

See: slides.
2

"Multi-Domain High-Bandwidth SDN's", Ralph Koning, Cees de Laat (CIENA booth).

The collaboration between CIENA and the System and Network Engineering (SNE) group at the University of Amsterdam will focus on two of the most pressing issues currently open in creating multi-domain high-bandwidth SDNs (Software Defined Networks):
  • the use of standardized models, providing information about network topologies and network capabilities, that can be exchanged between domains when setting up SDNs path flows across their boundaries;
  • the control and programmability of OpenFlow devices with more intuitive user interfaces, interfaces capable of abstracting away the complexity of crossing domain boundaries,
At SC14 we show the first steps in this collaboration. Both UvA and Ciena recently purchased Exogeni racks augmented with a more experimental setup. The racks are connected via the ANA-200 using the Ciena 8700 Packetwave Platform, this allows to connect three racks at Ciena StarLight and UvA using 100G forming the basis for next generation SDN and cloud research.

See: slides.
3

"MultiCloud Application Scheduling via Open Cloud Exchange ( OCX)", Cosmin Dumitru, Yuri Demchenko, Cees de Laat (SURF, CIENA and GEANT booth).

In this demonstration we present "Vampires", the user-centric data-aware cloud resource scheduler. The scheduler allows users to deploy applications on multiple clouds. Users can define both performance and budget constraints which are used by the scheduler to propose candidate resource configurations. In this way users do not have to manually deal with creating the virtual infrastructure needed by their applications. Also in this demonstration we show how "Vampires" can leverage dynamic dedicated links between cloud sites. For this feature we use the G�ANT Open Cloud Exchange, a dedicated place for inter-connection and peering between cloud providers and customers. In the demonstration we use a video transcoding application which is dynamically deployed over multiple clouds.

See: slides.
4

"Topology Exchange and Path finding", Ralph Koning, S. Konstantaras, M. Zivkovic, P. Grosso (UvA) and F. Iqbal, F. Kuipers (TU Delft).

The following demonstration implements the architecture of a novel system, responsible for exchanging topology information in the NSI environment. This new system has been designed to work with multiple domains where their topology knowledge is distributed in a hybrid approach. To achieve that, we define the main entities and their functionalities and we propose the usage of NML scheme for describing network topologies. In addition, because of the need to selectively discover shortest paths between STPs on domain level that satisfy certain requirements, we developed the SPF (Selective Path Finding) algorithm for that purpose.

See: slides.
5

"Interconnecting Cloud Computing Clusters using Bandwidth on Demand Networks", Daniel Romao, Ralph Koning (SURF booth).

Flexible cloud computing systems have a need of flexible network infrastructures. Currently deployed bandwidth on demand systems, allow easy provisioning of multi-domain links, with the addition of the good bandwidth management, making desirable its integration into cloud computing systems. In this demo, we use the ExoGENI rack of the University of Amsterdam, for which we developed an extension to the ExoGENI's orchestration software (ORCA) to allow automatic reservation and provision of links on the NSI bandwidth on demand system of the AutoGOLE project. We use Flukes, the ExoGENI�s topology designer tool to create a virtual machine and a bandwidth on demand network link connecting the virtual machine to a pinger service in our domain. After the topology is created, we could verify the proper operation of the network link by performing connectivity tests against the pinger service.

See: slides.
6

"Green Routing in OpenNaaS, Open Green Network as a Service", Daniel Romao, Hao Zhu (SURF booth).

The traditional network management and service orchestration platform such as OpenNaaS and OpenStack, which currently lack of support to power management for networks. We implemented energy-aware network monitoring and routing capabilities in OpenNaaS. In this demo, we use OpenNaaS to monitor the power information of switches and configured route in the OpenFlow network. Besides, we demonstrate to create a green routing path for a route request from one host to another host. OpenNaaS server in the backend calculates a green routing path in terms of power, cost and emission metrics based on measurement data and then configures flow forwarding rule in the OpenFlow controllers to enable this green route.

See: slides.
7

"Valuing the greenness of NRENs", Daniel Romao, Paola Grosso, Arie Taal (SURF booth).

A quality or performance measure reflecting the greenness of computer networks should be a function of multiple aspects. Besides green aspects of network nodes, network owners also have to deal with aspects in the interest of end-users. In this demo we propose a quality measure that values the greenness of the network among other relevant aspects and that fluctuates with the design of the network, or as a consequence of different policies applied. The measure is able to take multiple diverse aspects of a network node into account, like for instance the utilized capacity, the PUE of the site where a node resides, the kind of energy the node is supplied with (or $CO_2$-emission), the service cost of a node, etc..
The measure is applied to a real network, the Dutch NREN.

See: slides.
8

"CoCo - Multi-domain multi-point virtual private networks using OpenFlow, Ronald van der Pol (SURFnet), Marijke Kaat (SURFnet), Bart Gijsen (TNO), Piotr Zuraniewski (TNO), Daniel Cabaca Romao (UvA) (SURF booth).

The Community Connection (CoCo) service is a prototype for on-demand multi-domain multipoint L2/L3 VPN instances. The prototype will be built on top of an OpenFlow infrastructure. End-users use a web portal to setup CoCo instances. Typical users are research communities that form a closed user group and that want their e-science resources (servers, VMs, laptops, storage, instruments, etc.) interconnected, but reachable for their closed group only.
In this demo we will show how end-users can connect their OpenFlow equipment over different kinds of campus network infrastructures to a CoCo domain, in order to participate in CoCo instances. We will also show how such virtual network can be set-up, and highlight its advantages for the end-users.

See: slides.

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