DYNES-Deployments

["Sill, Alan" <>]

Hmm. I need to understand in more detail how DYNES works. I thought we were 
just running commands, not setting up an entire OS instance for every 
connection. 

This sounds more like running a cloud resource, if a VM is needed to manage 
each connection. 


On Sep 4, 2012, at 10:25 AM, "Dillaway, Wilson" 
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>     Loading a separate OS image onto the FDT server for each remote 
> researcher, and running that with root access, is maybe the best way to 
> understand what is being asked for.
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> Subject: Re: [dynes-deployments] ESnet's 100G ANI testbed: another example 
> of root access
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> In principle any account can be mapped. In practice, we would need to see a 
> very detailed use case for why anyone from another institution would need 
> root access to one of our servers. 
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> Alan
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> On Sep 4, 2012, at 10:02 AM, "Malathi Veeraraghavan" 
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>> Hi all,
>>   Another example is ESnet's 100G ANI testbed.
>> Every time we reserve a time slot for use of the testbed, our our own 
>> OS image is loaded on the high-performance hosts and root access is 
>> available to us.
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>> This may be a good example for some DYNES participants who are not 
>> using the DYNES end systems for actual production traffic.
>> 
>> MV
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