Aggregate Name

ProtoGENI Emulab Aggregate What does this mean?

Aggregate Overview

Aggregate Resources	This aggregate includes: (1) The University of Utah Emulab testbed consisting of over 400 co-located PCs that can be loaded with an experimenter specified OS image and connected in arbitrary topologies and (2) Programmable switches at Internet2 backbone locations at Salt Lake City, Kansas City and Washington DC.
Typical Experiments	The Emulab testbed is suited for experiments that require a controllable, predictable, and repeatable network environment. Experimenters can get PC nodes--virtual machines or complete PCs-- on which they have full "root" access, run an operating system of their choice, and connect nodes in an arbitrary topology. The ProtoGENI backbone nodes are suitable for wide area networking experiments over the Internet2. Experimenters may set up VLANS connecting GENI aggregates and other resources on Internet2 and install custom software on the ProtoGENI backbone nodes for Layer 2 and above processing.
Aggregate Web Page	​http://www.emulab.net/ for information about the Utah Emulab testbed and ​http://groups.geni.net/geni/wiki/Integration for information about the ProtoGENI backbone nodes.
Aggregate Status	​http://www.emulab.net/ (See top-right of page for statistics on active experiments and for resource availability.)
Layer 2 Connectivity	Internet2

Experimenter Support

Guides and Documents	Tutorials, FAQs and other documentation at ​http://www.protogeni.net.
Support	ProtoGENI user support mailing list: ​mailto:geni-users@emulab.net. This is a community support mailing list; emails to this list are broadcast to all subscribers.
Compatible tools	​ProtoGENI Tools and ​Gush

Using this Aggregate

Clearinghouses Recognized

​ProtoGENI Clearinghouse | PlanetLab Clearinghouse

Usage Policies

The ProtoGENI Emulab aggregate is a public facility; resources may be allocated and used by any GENI experimenter with suitable credentials. ProtoGENI Emulab users can ask for as many nodes as are currently available. Experiments are "swapped out" of the testbed after a "Maximum Duration" period of inactivity. For details see ​https://users.emulab.net/trac/emulab/wiki/Swapping. All users of ProtoGENI Emulab resources must abide by the ​Emulab Security Policy, ​Emulab Acceptable Use Policy and ​Emulab Node Use Policy.

Aggregate Management

Aggregate Operator	Flux Research Group, School of Computing, University of Utah. ​http://www.cs.utah.edu/flux/
Resource Owner	Flux Research Group, School of Computing, University of Utah. ​http://www.cs.utah.edu/flux/
Operation POC	​Testbed operations
Technical POC	​Robert Ricci
Developer Links	Source code: ​http://www.emulab.net/software.php3. Developer mailing list: ​geni-dev@emulab.net