Section: Software
Reference implementation for SFA Federation of experimental testbeds
Participants : Thierry Parmentelat [correspondant] , Julien Tribino.
We are codevelopping with Princeton University a reference implementation for the Testbed-Federation architecture known as SFA for Slice-based Federation Architecture. During 2011 we have focused on the maturation of the SFA codebase, with several objectives in mind, better interoperabity between the PlanetLab world and the EmuLab, a more generic shelter that other testbeds can easily leverage in order to come up with their own SFA-compliant wrapper and support for 'reservable' mode, which breaks the usual best-effort PlanetLab model. For more details about this contribution see section
See also the web page http://planet-lab.eu
Type of human computer interaction: Web-UI, XMLRPC-based API, Qt-based graphical client
Required library or software: Fedora-14 for the infrastructure side; the software comes with a complete software suite for the testbed nodes
Documentation: most crucial module plcapi is self-documented using a local format & related tool. See e.g. https://www.planet-lab.eu/db/doc/PLCAPI.php
Codebase: http://git.onelab.eu