GENI: Fall 2013 Train the TA Sessions

Dates and Times

Session 1: Friday January 17, 2014 from 2pm to 5pm ET
Session 2: Friday January 24, 2014 from 2pm to 5pm ET

Web Conferencing Information

Pre-Work

1. Verify ability to login to the GENI Portal (​https://portal.geni.net).

2. Download and install a VM from ​http://www.planet-lab.org/GENI/.

Session Leaders

Sarah Edwards GPO	Niky Riga GPO	Vic Thomas GPO

Topics

Session 1

An introduction to GENI and GENI Concepts

Hands-on: Lab Zero: My first GENI Experiment

• ​Instructions
• Slides

Hands-on: Using Omni, the GENI AM API and RSpecs

• Instructions
• Slides

Take-home assignment (optional)

Session 2

Solution to the take-home assignment

Tips for running a class on GENI: Account management

Tips for running a class on GENI: Lab management

Hands-on: Accessing resources in student slices

• Instructions

Wrap-Up: Resources available to instructors and TAs

Take home Assignment

• Link to the assignment
• Use Flack to reserve your resources using the rspec url provided in the assignment
• You will get a warning when you run sudo just ignore it:

  sudo: unable to resolve host NodeB