DYNES-Deployments

[Joe J Mambretti <>]

>It is not a research testbed in the form requested.
Right - although it can be used to access testbed facilities. As, Ilia noted 
that a few ExoGENI racks are available - hopefully soon InstaGENI racks will 
also be available.

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Subject: Re: [dynes-deployments] ESnet's 100G ANI testbed: another example of 
root access

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" 
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>  wrote:
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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.
>>
>>                 Wilson
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>>  On Behalf Of Sill, Alan
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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.
>>
>> Alan
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>> On Sep 4, 2012, at 10:02 AM, "Malathi Veeraraghavan" 
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>>  wrote:
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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.
>>>
>>> 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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>>> University of Virginia
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