DYNES-Deployments

[Harvey Newman <>]

Yes that sounds fine.
Regards
Harvey

On 9/4/2012 5:37 PM, Joe J Mambretti wrote:
> > 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
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> 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
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>
> 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
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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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