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Description
Computer Science experimental testbeds allow investigators to explore a broad
range of different state-of-the-art hardware options, assess scalability of their
systems, and provide conditions that allow deep reconfigurability and isolation so
that one user does not impact the experiments of another. Although the primary
purpose of those testbeds is to provide resources to users who would not be able to
satisfy their experimental needs otherwise, an important side-effect is that multiple
users and user groups have access to the same resources, that are compatible with
the same experimental artifacts, such as appliances/images or orchestration
templates. This creates conditions which allow users to share experiments and
replicate each other’s work more easily and creates an opportunity to foster good
experimental practices as well as create a sharing ecosystem.
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