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+ <div class="row" style="text-align:justify;">
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<p>
- OneLab Portal is a central place to get acess to all OneLab testbeds. In order to get access to the portal,
- an experimenter needs to <a href="/register">register</a> to the portal. The portal administrative body
- is responsible to accept or reject newly registered users.
+ The OneLab Portal is the central site that allows users access to all OneLab testbeds. In order to gain access to the portal,
+ you must first <a href="/register">register</a> to the portal. After you submit your sign-up form, you will have immediate but
+ limited access to the portal. The OneLab support team, which monitors portal access, will then confirm your new user sign-up request
+ and notify the manager of your organization. Once the manager validates your request you will have full access to all testbed resources.
</p>
<p>
- To learn more about OneLab visit: <a href="https://www.onelab.eu" target="_blank">onelab.eu</a>
+ OneLab provides users with access to <a href="http://planet-lab.eu/" target="_blank">PlanetLab Europe</a>,
+ <a href="http://nitlab.inf.uth.gr/NITlab/index.php/testbed" target="_blank">NITOS</a>,
+ and <a href="https://www.iot-lab.info/" target="_blank">IoT-LAB</a> testbeds, each of which has its own characteristics that allow users
+ to choose according to the needs of their experiments. PlanetLab Europe is an internet-overlaid platform providing 300 servers for over
+ 150 European locations, or one thousand total servers at 500 world-wide locations. NITOS wireless mobility testbeds allow users to customize
+ environmental components so as to test their experiments in real-world settings; while IoT-LAB platforms offer users over 2700 fixed or mobile
+ wireless sensor nodes in six different locations across France.
</p>
<p>
- If you have any questions regarding using the portal visit: <a href="/support">OneLab support</a>
+ To learn more about OneLab consortium, please visit: <a href="https://www.onelab.eu" target="_blank">onelab.eu</a>
</p>
<p>
- OneLab portal is a community effort. To get more information about OneLab portal team visit:
+ If you have any questions regarding how to use the portal, please visit: <a href="/support">OneLab support</a>
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ The OneLab portal is a community effort. To get more information about the portal team, please visit our member profile page at:
<a href="http://myslice.info/community" target="_blank">myslice.info/community</a>
</p>
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- <h3>A ready-made and easily customisable user interface for your testbed.</h3>
+ <h3>The MySlice Software: A ready-made and easily customizable user interface for your testbed</h3>
+ <p>
+ MySlice is an ambitious project aimed at supporting users and assisting them throughout the lifecycle of their experiments.
+ The MySlice software includes a web front-end as well as a backend called Manifold. Manifold is a component allowing the integration
+ of distributed and heterogeneous data sources, such as measurement platforms or data repositories.
+ </p>
<p>
- MySlice is an ambitious project aiming to support researchers throughout the lifecycle of experiments that can run on a variety
- of testbeds spanning different administrative domains and networking technologies. Its basic principle is to bring together
- available resources with useful information (characteristics, performance, network measurements).
+ Experiments can be deployed on a variety of testbeds spanning across different administrative domains and networking technologies.
+ The basic principle of MySlice is to bring together available resources with useful information (characteristics, performance, network measurements).
+
</p>
<p>
- MySlice inititiave started in Janury 2011 by offering annotation services for the first ederated experimental resources. Today,
- MySlice has taken a big step toward becoming a stand-alone web framework, which will present all available resources from testbeds
- across the world, interconnected through the Slice-based Facility Architecture (SFA) and annotated by the TopHat measurement system.
+ The MySlice initiative started in January 2011 by offering annotation services for the first federated experimental resources. Today, MySlice has
+ taken a big step toward becoming a stand-alone web framework, which will present to its users all available resources from testbeds across the world.
</p>
<p>
- Our framework is built with standard programming tools (python and javascript for the front-end and python for the back-end)
- and has a modular structure based on the concept of plugins for implementing different core functionalities (query editing,
- data display, and resource allocation).
+ The testbeds are interconnected through the Slice-based Facility Architecture (SFA) and annotated by the TopHat measurement system.
</p>
<p>
- The goal is to enable developers with expertise on different testbed technologies and different experimental
- practices to work in parallel for optimizing the tools presented to the users allowing them for a wide range of choices
- according to their own requirements. Opening in this way the development of web-based user tools for experimentation and
- sharing effort and information can increase significantly the chances for the achievement of our challenging objective.
+ Our framework is built with standard programming tools (python and javascript for the front-end and python for the back-end) and has a modular
+ structure based on the concept of plugins, used for implementing different core functionalities (query editing, data display, and resource allocation).
+ </p>
+ <p>
+ The goal of MySlice is to enable developers with expertise in different testbed technologies and experimental practices to create, develop, or edit new
+ testbed features. These features allow users to choose from a wide range of testbed characteristics according to their own experiments' requirements.
+ Opening the development of web-based user tools for experimentation and the sharing of information will allow for the achievement of the MySlice objective.
</p>
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<h3>Portal Components</h3>
- <h5>Myslice (Web Frontend)</h5>
- <p>
- A full-fledged and modular web portal for a testbed federation allowing user to register,
- request slices and browse and book resources, with a strong emphasis on measurements.
- </p>
+ <h4>Myslice</h4>
+ <ul><li><b>Web Frontend</b>
<p> More Info: <a href="http://myslice.info/" target="_blank">http://myslice.info/</a></p>
<p> Code: <a href="http://git.onelab.eu/?p=myslice.git;a=summary" target="_blank">Git Repository</a> (read only)</p>
<p>
- If you need write access to the git repository you need first to send your public key to <a href="mailto:support@onelab.eu">support@onelab.eu</a>.
+ If you need write access to the git repository you mustfirst to send your public key to <a href="mailto:support@onelab.eu">support@onelab.eu</a>.
</p>
+ </li>
-
- <h5>Manifold (Portal backend)</h5>
- <p>
- Manifold is the backend that is running behind the portal. It is a component allowing the integration of distributed
- and heterogeneous data sources, such as measurement platforms or data repositories.
- </p>
+ <li><b>Backend (Manifold)</b>
<p> Documentation: <a href="http://trac.myslice.info/" target="_blank">http://trac.myslice.info/</a></p>
<p> Code: <a href="https://git.top-hat.info/?p=tophat.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/devel" target="_blank">Git Repository</a> (read only)</p>
-
- <h5>OneLab Registry</h5>
- <p>It's a SFA registry. SFA Registry is a specific installation mode of the SFAWrapper (Registry Only mode).</p>
+ </li></ul>
+ <h4>OneLab Registry</h4>
+ <p>The OneLab registry is a SFA registry is a specific installation mode of the SFAWrapper (Registry Only mode).</p>
<p> More Info: <a href="http://svn.planet-lab.org/wiki/SfaDeveloperRegistryTutorial#RunninginRegistry-Onlymode" target="_blank">SFA Registry</a></p>
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