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Overview of University of Amsterdam progress. University of Amsterdam and SARA created joint research lab (Amsterdam Lighthouse) Demonstrated AAA software in combination with Nortel control plane at SC2004
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Overview of University of Amsterdam progress • University of Amsterdam and SARA created joint research lab (Amsterdam Lighthouse) • Demonstrated AAA software in combination with Nortel control plane at SC2004 • Making it easier for others to obtain AAA software, by creating demo ASM, writing documentation
Amsterdam Lighthouse “Rembrandt” Opteron cluster GlimmerGlass OXC Force10 switch
Amsterdam Lighthouse Tiled Display
AAA software • JCA is not used for communications anymore, only plain webservices. This makes it simpler, and thus more stable (there were some bugs in our JCA code, requiring period restarts) • Plain XML-RPC is used for webservices, no special flavour like WSRF. • Create a demonstration (magic eight-ball), and created an ASM to connect to RADIUS. • Currently we are rewriting documentation the above (demo + how to install + how to write ASM - This will be published online, hopefully with a week or two (begin of february). Currently, only software and out-of-date docs were available by email. Contacts: Fred Wan, Bas van Oudenaarde, http://www.science.uva.nl/research/air/projects/aaa/
Future Plans • Virtualizing our resources with webservices, allowing a user to set up and tear down a path within our domain. contact: Paola Grosso • Integrate AAA with UCLP. contact: Bas van Oudenaarde • Interdomain Path Discovery algorithms. contact: Freek Dijkstra • Use the Grid as a network testing tool (within GigaPort NG project). contact: Paola Grosso • Experiment with token-based networking, using Intel processor. contact: Leon Gommans • Create firewall research group in GGF. contact: Leon Gommans
Questions • What type of networks do we require? Host to host or LAN to LAN? • How to cope with faults in the network setup? What if the network is automatically set up, but ‘does not work’ end-to-end? • How to combine different type resources, if the resources do use non-synchronized schedulers?