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Emulab FAQ: Operations and Policy: Restricted access for SIGCOMM'06
Emulab FAQ: Operations and Policy: Restricted access for SIGCOMM'06
From: Leigh Stoller To: emulab-recently-active-projects@emulab.net Cc: testbed-ops@flux.utah.edu Subject: Restricted access for SIGCOMM Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 10:06:16 -0800 You MUST read this if you want Emulab access in the run up to the SIGCOMM 2006 deadline on Feburary 10th. Due to the high demand for Emulab resources before the deadline we are once again allowing you to handle resource scheduling. There is a social element and some technical elements. Basically, we are going to let you self-schedule. It will be up to you, the experimenters on imminent deadline, to manage this yourselves, including working out schedules and allocations. Our role will be approver, and, if necessary, enforcer and adjudicator. (But we're busy and we'd rather not, so play nice with each other!) We are using the project-oriented collaboration tools to provide communication channels for you, and to provide access only to those with imminent deadlines. 1) If you are working on a SIGCOMM deadline or otherwise have permission from us to work on an imminent deadline, you *MUST* go to this page and join the DEADLINE project. Don't fake it-- we can find out who really has submitted an abstract. Make sure you are already logged into the Emulab web interface, and then go here (or click "join project"): https://www.emulab.net/joinproject.php3?target_pid=DEADLINE Unless you are a member of this project, when resources get tight you will not be able to swap in any experiments-- which will probably start about a week prior to the deadline. Please note that you can *not* use the special DEADLINE project to *run* your experiments; you only need to be a member of it. For experimentatiion, continue to use whatever projects you currently use. 2) Send email to testbed-ops@flux.utah.edu giving us your project name, explaining your need, and cc'ing your official project head (typically the faculty member). 3) Once you are a member of the DEADLINE project, you should use some of Emulab's new Collaboration tools to arrange resource use with other members of that project. We expect to restrict the resources used by almost all other projects. We will get involved if there are problems or detect gross unfairness, but we'd rather not. Here are the DEADLINE project collaboration tools that will be available as soon as you join that project, clearly marked in the "Collaboration" submenu on the left hand side of the Emulab web interface. * Mailing list: DEADLINE-users@emulab.net, a normal Mailman mailing list, can be used to send email to everyone on deadline. You can create new DEADLINE-* lists there, as well. * Wiki: You can use the scheduling form we provided on the DEADLINE project wiki to aid you in reserving times when you need lots of nodes. Or you can build a fancier one. Or whatever. Use the "My Wikis" link. * Chat Room. There is an DEADLINE chatroom on the Emulab chat server. If you go to the "My Chat Buddies" link, you will see your jabber id and your password. Use whatever client you like, as long as it speaks jabber. To join the chatroom, the room name is "DEADLINE" and the server is "conference.emulab.net". You do not need a password to enter the room.