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= Systematic Experimentation in GENI =

== Schedule ==

Monday, 1.30pm - 3.30pm

== Session Leaders ==

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<td style="border:1px solid gray;">Niky Riga <br/>GPO</td>
<td style="border:1px solid gray;">Sarah Edwards <br/>GPO</td>
<td  style="border:1px solid gray;">Vic Thomas<br/>GPO</td>
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== Description ==

The session will cover techniques that will help experimenters:
    1. Develop and manage complex experiments.
    2. Gain a better understanding of what is happening with their experiment
    3. Ensure experiments are repeatable and reproducible.

Topics to be covered include:
    * Growing an experiment one dimension at a time (number of resources, number of aggregates, adding an OF controller, etc)
    * Install/post-boot scripts 
    * Custom images
    * Scripting experiments
    * Experiment software version control

== Agenda ==

 * Motivation  
	Sarah Edwards, Xuan Liu, Niky Riga, Vic Thomas, GPO
 * Case Study: Router failover in OSPF
	Xuan Liu, UMKC/GPO
 * Tools and Techniques 
	* Custom images and install scripts
		- InstaGENI,  Gary Wong, University of Utah
		- ExoGENI, Paul Ruth, RENCI
	* Porting ExoGENI Images to InstaGENI
		- Ezra Kissel, Indiana University
	* Manipulating RSpecs with geni-lib 
		- Nick Bastin, Barnstormer Softworks	
	* How to Collaborate
		- Sarah Edwards, GPO
 * Q&A 
 * Experimenter Drop-In (next session)