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The First GENI Summercamp

Agenda / Details

This is a one-week summer camp starting from May 29, 2012 to June 2, 2012. This summer camp provides participants with the opportunity to learn and use the various tools available in the GENI environment through tutorials, labs, and a team-based project. Undergraduate and graduate students and faculty at different-level colleges are welcome to apply. Industrial attendees are welcome too.

Overview

  • Introduction to GENI racks and GENI resources including ProtoGENI and PlanetLab.
  • OS installation and configuration for GENI experiments.
  • Familiarity of OMNI tools and introduction to Flack, INSTOOLS, GUSH, OpenFLow, and PrimoGENI.
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  • Gain hands-on lab experience with multiple GENI resources and use them to develop a team-based project.
  • Lab sessions with GENI experts who will help you design and begin your experiment.

See the attachment for more details.

Summer Camp Leader

Kaiqi Xiong, RIT

Sponsors

The project has been funded by BBN/NSF.
PI: Kaiqi Xiong, RIT
Co-PI: Yin Pan, RIT
Co-PI: Yong Guan, Iowa State
Senior Personnel: Bing Wang, UConn

Acknowledgement

We gratefully acknowledge the assistances and supports from NSF/BBN, GPO, IEEE Communications Society in the Rochester Session, and RIT.

Schedule

May 29, 2012 – June 1, 2012: 8:30am-5pm
June 2, 2012: 8:30am-12:00pm

Prework

If you are attending the Summer Camp as a participant and you are planning to attend the tutorials then you have to complete the following steps.

Get a GENI account

This account will also give you access to GENI for further experimentation after the summer camp. If you already have an account with pgeni.gpolab.bbn.com then there is nothing more you need to do. If you do not have an account, please follow instructions in the end of the email.

In order for you to get a GENI account you will have to follow these instructions. Make sure that in all the forms real email addresses are used, since further instructions are going to be sent through email:

  1. If you are a student as your adviser to create a project by filling out this form: https://www.pgeni.gpolab.bbn.com/newproject.php3 . In the last box, please provide a couple of sentences about how you plan to use GENI for your research.
  1. Once the project is approved you should apply for an account at:

https://www.pgeni.gpolab.bbn.com/joinproject.php3

using as project name the same project name used your adviser in the previous form.

  1. Your adviser should approve your request.

Download GENI VM

Download and install VirtualBox (www.virtualbox.org) on a machine

that you will bring with you to the camp. If your computer runs Ubuntu 10.04 which comes with VirtualBox 3.1.6_OSE, please download the latest version of VirtualBox.