Changes between Version 9 and Version 10 of OldIntro

Timestamp:

Jul 30, 2012 10:14:57 AM (12 years ago)

Author:

Ted Faber

Comment:

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OldIntro

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-Today you can run experiments on DETER involving high numbers of virtual nodes. We currently support experiments mixing QEMU virtual nodes running Ubuntu, View-OS lightweight processes, and physical computers.
+Today, using version 1.0.0,  you can run experiments on DETER involving high numbers of virtual nodes. We currently support experiments mixing QEMU virtual nodes running Ubuntu, View-OS lightweight processes, and physical computers.
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+A container represents a collection of experimental elements at the
+same level of abstraction. Containers have standardized interfaces and
+incorporate interconnection backplanes for communication both within
+and between containers. Containers can be nested -- the elements
+within a container can be other containers. This leads naturally to a
+hierarchical paradigm, in which apparatuses are built by allocating
+and connecting containers hierarchically through standard interfaces.
 
 If you have problems with or questions about the system, contact Ted Faber faber@ISI.EDU or [https://trac.deterlab.net/wiki/GettingHelp contact the testbed staff].
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+= Project Goals =
+
+The container mechanism will enable an experimenter to provide a conceptual
+description of an experiment -- a "conceptual apparatus" -- as a
+general topology annotated with fidelity requirements, without
+specifying its eventual physical realization in the testbed as a "real
+apparatus". The container mechanism will automate instantiating
+the conceptual apparatus as a real DETERlab experiment that is scaled and abstracted appropriately to meet the
+fidelity requirements. This will include mapping conceptual nodes into
+real machines, virtual machines, processes, threads, etc as
+appropriate, and handling the details of configuring the links and
+initializing the experiment.
+
+The experimenter will create a topology description labeled with
+experiment constraints, and the system will assign its concrete elements to a
+hierarchical structure of containers. The system will guide the user in
+this assignment by ensuring that both experiment constraints and
+container constraints are satisfied. Then the concrete elements in the
+containerized experiment will be mapped into physical realizations on the
+real testbed(s).The virtual machines need to be instantiated, the
+simulators loaded, and the computers allocated. The container system
+will use the hierarchical structure to perform a recursive embedding
+process, again satisfying constraints.
+
+
 
 == Current Users ==