Talk Title: CloudLab on ESI

Talk Abstract: Bare metal hardware is usually statically assigned to testbeds like OCT and NERC. With some of the OCT resources offered through the CloudLab control framework and other resources in MOC using ESI and each system expecting exclusive hardware access, it is challenging to share resources between different platforms (OCT, NERC, etc). In this talk we will demonstrate how we can use ESI as the hardware abstraction layer to share resources between testbeds. By using ESI across the board and relying on ESI’s lease mechanism, we can share resources between MOC and NERC by implementing an ESI network stack for CloudLab. This allows any hardware to be used dynamically by any platform based on demand. 

Bio: Emmanuel has been working for the past 15 years as a Senior Research Fellow at UMass contributing to various projects mostly in the fields of Distributed Systems, Green computing, Data forensics and Databases.