Tutorials

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If you are about to start using WiL, try the following:

  • 1 Browse the WiL Menu on the Sidebar.
  • 2 Follow the technical introduction to using WiL
  • 3 Sign and book time on WiL
  • 4 Try a few tutorials
  • 5 Consult people at WiL

Contents

[edit] WiL menu

[edit] Technical Introduction to using WiL

Basic user's introduction to using WiL:

Based on Tom's talk Fri June 20/2008

[edit] Sign-up & Booking

To begin using WAN-in-Lab via the WiL website, users need to:

Sign-up, register an account or log-in your account

and then make a booking

When a benchmark test is scheduled from <http://wil-ns.cs.caltech.edu/benchmark>, a booking is automatically made.

[edit] Booking mechanisms

Bookings are recorded in the WiL database.

A cron job run as the unprivileged WAN-in-Lab user on WiL-NS every minute. Five minutes before a booking is due to start, it changes project to the specified project, rebooting servers if necessary and reconfiguring the routers and MEMS switch.

Two hours after a booking is finished, if there are no further bookings for two hours, servers 1 to 8 are turned off, using the remote power switches. (Currently, this is disabled since servers do not turn on again reliably. Eventually, it will also extend to Disk1-Disk4.) This both saves power and encourages users to make bookings rather than just using WiL; which facilitates sharing.

Please note in 2008, bookings for entire WiL is preferred.

[edit] Tutorials

The following tutorials may assist new users with running experiments at WAN-in-Lab.


[edit] See also

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