DYNES-Deployments

[Harvey Newman <>]

No this is not what we are doing.

A community resource that connects campuses which is the main point here
cannot have individual researchers take over all or part of the end-systems.
It is not a research testbed in the form requested.

Harvey


On 9/4/2012 5:11 PM, Sill, Alan wrote:
> 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" 
> <>
>  wrote:
>
> >      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.
> >
> >                 Wilson
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
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> >  On Behalf Of Sill, Alan
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2012 11:19 AM
> > To: 
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> > Cc: 
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> > Subject: Re: [dynes-deployments] ESnet's 100G ANI testbed: another example of 
> > root access
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > Alan
> >
> >
> >
> > On Sep 4, 2012, at 10:02 AM, "Malathi Veeraraghavan" 
> > <>
> >  wrote:
> >
> > > 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.
> > >
> > > 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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