automatic dynamic run-time optical network reservations
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Automatic Dynamic Run-time Optical Network Reservations. John R. Lange Ananth I. Sundararaj and Peter A. Dinda Prescience Lab Department of Computer Science Northwestern University http://plab.cs.northwestern.edu. Introduction. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Automatic Dynamic Run-time Optical Network Reservations
John R. Lange
Ananth I. Sundararaj and Peter A. DindaPrescience Lab
Department of Computer Science
Northwestern University
http://plab.cs.northwestern.edu
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Introduction
• Recently the Grid community has begun turning the network into a standard grid service– Network and compute resources are still very different– Requires in depth understanding of program behavior
or targeted application development
• VRESERVE– Enable unmodified applications to efficiently utilize
reservation based networks without user intervention
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Overview
• Reservations and Circuit Switching• Optical Networking
– OMNInet and ODIN
• Virtual Machines– Virtuoso
• Overlay Networking– VNET and VTTIF
• Putting it all together– VRESERVE
• Performance Evaluation
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Reservable Networks
• Generic Reservation API– CreatePath(<srcIP>, <dstIP>, <bw>, <lat>);– TeardownPath(<srcIP>, <dstIP>);
• Somebody or something has to make the API calls
• Circuit switching and network reservations are inherently linked– Establishing a circuit is similar to reserving the
network elements along a path
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Reservation Issues
• Parameter Values– How does someone determine the required
bandwidth and latency?– Are the endpoints always evident?
• Highly parallel applications in a grid environment• Migratable Virtual Machines
• Time– What is the flow duration?– What is the traffic behavior pattern?
• Applications often have cyclical behaviors (compute and send)
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Reservation Problems
• Complexity:– Someone has to call the reservation API
• Developer must incorporate API calls into application• User must reserve network on application’s behalf
• Efficiency:– Efficient reservations require understanding
application’s behavior and topology– Networks usually reserved in spatial and temporal
blocks• Networks reserved to connect all hosts• Networks reserved for entire execution time
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Optical Networks
• Recent advances in switching technology have brought renewed interest to the area
• Offer provisioning of dynamic lightpaths– One of the latest incarnations of circuit switched
networking– Emergence of network reservation grid services– Generating a large deal of interest in the high
performance computing and grid communities• NLR, Canarie, Netherlight• OptIPuter
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OMNInet and ODIN• OMNInet
– Experimental dynamically configurable optical network– Provisionable wavelengths (lambdas)– All-to-All topology– Connects research centers in Chicago and Northern Illinois
• ODIN– Reservation system for OMNInet
• Developed by iCAIR – International Center for Advanced Internet Research– Mambretti, J., Weinberger, J., Chen, J., Bacon, E., Yeh, F.,
Lillethun, D., Grossman, B., Gu, Y., and Mazzuco, M. The photonic terastream: Enabling next generation applications through intelligent optical networking at iGRID2002.
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ODIN
• Lightpath Reservation System– Implements path discovery based on user supplied
endpoints– Also beginning to look at scheduling services– Command line client interfacing with a trusted server
• Interface– oclient -c <srcIP> <dstIP> <lambda#> <flags>
• Path Creation
– oclient -t <pathID>• Path Teardown
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http://www.dotresearch.org
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VirtuosoVirtual Machine marketplace
• Collection of remotely distributed VMs that appear to reside on the same LAN
• Provides many opportunities for optimization– Adaptive overlay networks, VM migration, resource scheduling,
etc…
– A. Sundararaj, A. Gupta, and P. Dinda, Increasing Application Performance In Virtual Environments Through Run-time Inference and Adaptation
• HPDC 2005– A. Sundararaj, M. Sanghi, J. Lange, P. Dinda, An Optimization Problem in
Adaptive Virtual Environments • (MAMA 2005), To Appear
• http://virtuoso.cs.northwestern.edu
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VMM
VADAPT
VRESERVE VNET Overlay
Reservation Service(ODIN)
VNETVTTIF
Application
Reservable Network(OMNInet)
Internet
Data
Control
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VNET Virtual Networking for Virtual Machines
• Allows VMs to behave as if they were on the same LAN– All remote VMs tunnel traffic to a central proxy
• Default star topology
• A. Sundararaj, P. Dinda, Towards Virtual Networks for Virtual Machine Grid Computing – USENIX VM 2004
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VMM
VADAPT
VRESERVE VNET Overlay
Reservation Service(ODIN)
VNETVTTIF
Application
Reservable Network(OMNInet)
Internet
Data
Control
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VTTIFApplication Topology Inference
• Extracts network topologies from application behavior
• Generates a global traffic matrix defining the global application network topology
• A. Gupta, P. Dinda, Inferring the Topology and Traffic Load of Parallel Programs Running In a Virtual Machine Environment – Workshop on Job Scheduling Policies for Parallel Processing, 2004
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VADAPTOverlay Network Adaptation
• Modify virtual network to match actual network topology– Creates overlay links between communicating VMs
• Based on global reduction of VTTIF matrices
• A. Sundararaj, A. Gupta, P. Dinda, Dynamic Topology Adaptation In Virtual Networks of Virtual Machines – LCR 2004
• A. Sundararaj, A. Gupta, and P. Dinda, Increasing Application Performance In Virtual Environments Through Run-time Inference and Adaptation – HPDC 2005
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VMM
VADAPT
VRESERVE VNET Overlay
Reservation Service(ODIN)
VNETVTTIF
Application
Reservable Network(OMNInet)
Internet
Data
Control
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VRESERVENetwork Reservations for Overlay Networks
• Extension to VADAPT– Allows true adaptation of the network
• Components– Reservation API interface
• ODIN CLI – Routing mechanism
• Address mapping service– Path Discovery
• Depends on Reservation System functionality
• Allows for scheduled and delayed reservations– Greatly increases usability for scheduler based
reservation systems
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Optical Overlays
• VRESERVE routing is accomplished with VNET overlay links
• Issues– Reservation based resources usually aimed at high
performance– Application unaware of changing network conditions
• TCP performance is typically poor in high performance networks
• Benefits– Application unaware of changing network conditions– Routing is much easier at the overlay level
• Network is capable of reacting to global state changes
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10 GE
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Lake Shore
Photonic Node
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Photonic Node
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10 GE
Optera5200
10Gb/sTSPR
Photonic Node
PP
8600
10 GE
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8600
Optera5200
10Gb/sTSPR
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http://www.dotresearch.org
VRESERVE ODIN
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Evaluation
• This is an existence proof – Possible to automatically reserve network resources
on unmodified application’s behalf• Caveats and Disclaimers
– Scalability is unknown– Final performance measurements are also unknown
• Infrastructure issues prevented complete performance evaluations– Only one functional optical link– Network dismantled during experiments
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Optical Network Performance
Latency (ms)
Optical .321
Internet .498
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Initial VNET performance (optical Network)
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Performance Improvement(Synthetic BSP benchmark)
Demonstrable improvement by using automatic reservations
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Making VNET faster
• Overlay links switched to UDP– Reliable transport implemented in VM TCP stack– 2x improvement
• Lookup table caching– 3x improvement
• Future:– Memory mappings for packet operations– In kernel forwarding– Specialized VM device drivers
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VNET Performance (Round 2)
• No results on Optical Network– Infrastructure unavailable
• Experiments conducted between cluster nodes w/ gigabit Ethernet
• VNET performance only– Reservation and adaptation systems unused
• Overheads insignificant
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VNET Performance(Gigabit switch)
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Future Work
• Where does this fit into the overall optimization problem?
• How do we define the overall optimization problem?
• Extension to other reservation systems, e.g. GARA
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Conclusion
• Networks are not generic grid services
• Middleware is required to make reservation networks usable
• VRESERVE– Enable unmodified applications to effectively
utilize reservation based networks without user intervention
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• Prescience Lab– http://plab.cs.northwestern.edu
• Virtuoso– http://virtuoso.cs.northwestern.edu
• DOT (Distributed Optical Testbed)– http://www.dotresearch.org
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Optical Network Performance
Throughput (MB/sec)
Optical TTCP 79.48Optical SCP 11.5Internet TTCP 11.2Internet SCP 10.4
Latency (ms)
Optical Network .321
Internet .498
Throughput