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Robert Ricci, J Lepreau, L Stoller, M Hibler

2006/12/11

Presentation at the USC/ISI Federation Workshop

Emulab Federation Preliminary Design Page 1 Emulab Federation Preliminary Design Robert Ricci with Jay Lepreau, Leigh Stoller, Mike Hibler University of Utah USC/ISI Federation Workshop December 11, 2006 Page 2 “Many Masters” Model • No global master • Emulabs make peering agreements • “Home” testbed for – Users – Projects – Experiments Page 3 Identifying Users • Users identified by UUID (X.667) rather than login name – Implementation begun • Login names may be unique per project • Web login now done with email address – Already done on Utah Emulab • We may do this for projects too Page 4 Starting an Experiment • User submits NS file to one testbed – This will be the experiment “master” – Does this have to be project or user master? Hope not, but that poses unsolved challenges. • Master testbed does most setup work • Each remote testbed boots its part, then reports in • Experiment …