Integrating BEN to ORCA

Integrating BEN to ORCA

Ilia BaldineRenaissance Computing

[email protected]

BEN Overview

• Metro-scale dark-fiber facility• 4 PoPs on campuses (UNC-CH, Duke,

NCSU) and RENCI• Power/space/cooling at each PoP (3

racks)• Out-of-band management network• Remote power management

BEN Overview

BEN Substrate

• Each PoP is equipped with– Polatis fiber

switch– Infinera DTN

(DWDM)– Cisco 6509– Blades for VM

instatiation

NascentActive

Ticketed

Active

Joining Active Extending Active Closed

Extending

Extending

requestticket

returnticket

redeemticket

closehandshake

Site policy assigns concrete resources to

match ticket.

Initialize resources when lease begins (e.g., install nodes).

Broker policy selects resource types and sites, and sizes unit quantities.

returnlease update

lease

updateticket

request ticketextend

request leaseextend

Guest usesresources.

Resources joinguest application.

original lease term

Service Manager

Broker

Site Authorit

yTeardown/reclaim

resourcesafter lease expires, or on

guest-initiated close.

Reservation may change size (“flex”)

on extend.

Guest may continue to extend lease by mutual agreement.

form resource request

TimePriming

Ticketed

Ticketed

Lease State Machine

BEN Horizontal View

BEN Vertical View

BEN VLAN Slice view

BEN Slicing Future steps• Add drivers for

– Polatis fiber switches– DTN platforms

• GMPLS (need to peek at TED)• Explicit setup

• Use NDL for substrate description and slice specification– Replace ORCA resource model with ontology-based one

• Add cross-layer path validation and then computation

• VM substrate– Eucalyptus/EC2– VMWare

BEN Future Horizontal View

BEN Future Vertical View