Virtual framework for development and testing of federation software stack

Anees Al-Najjar; Nageswara S.V. Rao; Neena Imam; Thomas Naughton; Seth Hitefield; Lawrence Sorrillo; James Kohl; Wael Elwasif; Jean Christophe Bilheux; Hassina Bilheux; Swen Boehm; Jason Kincl

doi:10.1109/LCN52139.2021.9524993

Virtual framework for development and testing of federation software stack

Anees Al-Najjar, Nageswara S.V. Rao, Neena Imam, Thomas Naughton, Seth Hitefield, Lawrence Sorrillo, James Kohl, Wael Elwasif, Jean Christophe Bilheux, Hassina Bilheux, Swen Boehm, Jason Kincl

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Abstract

Softwarization of networked infrastructures combined with containerization of codes promises unprecedented computing capabilities distributed across the federations of computing systems and physical instruments. The development and testing of a software stack that implements these capabilities over an expensive physical production infrastructure is not cost-effective, and in the early stages, may potentially cause service disruptions. To address these aspects, we develop the Virtual Federated Science Instrument Environment (VFSIE), a digital twin of the physical infrastructure that emulates a multi-site federation. Each federated site is emulated using containers and virtual hosts that are connected over local-area networks, and the sites, in turn, are connected over an emulated wide-area network. We describe the framework design and implementation details. We also illustrate its application by emulating a federation of four laboratories that use Jupyter Notebook for computations and the EPICS software system for instrument control.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the IEEE 46th Conference on Local Computer Networks, LCN 2021
Editors	Lyes Khoukhi, Sharief Oteafy, Eyuphan Bulut
Publisher	IEEE Computer Society
Pages	323-326
Number of pages	4
ISBN (Electronic)	9780738124766
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/LCN52139.2021.9524993
State	Published - Oct 4 2021
Event	46th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks, LCN 2021 - Edmonton, Canada Duration: Oct 4 2021 → Oct 7 2021

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Name	Proceedings - Conference on Local Computer Networks, LCN
Volume	2021-October

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Conference	46th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks, LCN 2021
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Edmonton
Period	10/4/21 → 10/7/21

Funding

This work is funded in part by SDN-SF and RAMSES projects, Office of Advanced Computing Research, U.S. Department of Energy, and the Laboratory Directed Research and Development Program of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, managed by UT-Battelle, LLC for the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-ACO5-00OR22725.

Keywords

Containerization
Federated science instruments
Instrument control
Softwarized infrastructures

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Al-Najjar, A., Rao, N. S. V., Imam, N., Naughton, T., Hitefield, S., Sorrillo, L., Kohl, J., Elwasif, W., Bilheux, J. C., Bilheux, H., Boehm, S., & Kincl, J. (2021). Virtual framework for development and testing of federation software stack. In L. Khoukhi, S. Oteafy, & E. Bulut (Eds.), Proceedings of the IEEE 46th Conference on Local Computer Networks, LCN 2021 (pp. 323-326). (Proceedings - Conference on Local Computer Networks, LCN; Vol. 2021-October). IEEE Computer Society. https://doi.org/10.1109/LCN52139.2021.9524993

Al-Najjar, Anees ; Rao, Nageswara S.V. ; Imam, Neena et al. / Virtual framework for development and testing of federation software stack. Proceedings of the IEEE 46th Conference on Local Computer Networks, LCN 2021. editor / Lyes Khoukhi ; Sharief Oteafy ; Eyuphan Bulut. IEEE Computer Society, 2021. pp. 323-326 (Proceedings - Conference on Local Computer Networks, LCN).

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Virtual framework for development and testing of federation software stack. / Al-Najjar, Anees; Rao, Nageswara S.V.; Imam, Neena et al.
Proceedings of the IEEE 46th Conference on Local Computer Networks, LCN 2021. ed. / Lyes Khoukhi; Sharief Oteafy; Eyuphan Bulut. IEEE Computer Society, 2021. p. 323-326 (Proceedings - Conference on Local Computer Networks, LCN; Vol. 2021-October).

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