Getting Started with GENI and the GENI Portal - Part I

Schedule

Sunday, 10:30am - noon

Session Leaders

Sarah Edwards GPO	Niky Riga GPO

Agenda / Details

Complete your first experiment using GENI!

Develop a basic understanding of the experiment workflow by doing a simple layer 2 experiment.

While doing this experiment, use and understand the following terms: experimenter, project, slice, aggregate, resource, resource specification (RSpec)

Do the experiment using the following tools: GENI Portal, Flack, ssh & ssh keys

Pre-Requisites

There are no pre-requisites for this tutorial.

This is the first part of a three part tutorial. This tutorial or equivalent experience is a pre-requisites for Part II.

The following background will be helpful for this tutorial:

• A basic familiarity and comfort with using a UNIX command line
• A basic understanding of GENI concepts such as those covered in the Introduction to GENI and Experimentation using GENI talk immediately prior to this tutorial

Please Arrive With:

1. Laptop with a recent version of ​Virtual Box.
2. A GENI Experimenter Portal account.

Results

In Part I, attendees will run their first complete experiment in GENI.

At the end of Part I, attendees will be able to:

• Use and understand the following terms:
  • Experimenter
  • Project
  • Slice
  • Aggregate
  • Resource
  • Resource Specification (aka RSpec)
• Do the complete experiment workflow:
  • understand how to use their GENI Experimenter Portal account to join a project and create a slice
  • know how to draw an experimental topology and reserve resources using a graphical tool (Flack)
  • know how to log into compute resources using ssh and a private key
  • know how to manually load software onto a compute node
  • have run a simple layer 2 experiment
  • know how to delete resources

Tutorial materials

​Instructions

Slides: ​Download them here