Does Cloudlab's usage increase near deadlines?

[Patrick Hongyu Wang]

To any experienced Cloudlab users, does Cloudlab's usage increase near major conference deadlines (like SIGCOMM)? If so, when does this increase happen, and how many machines would generally be available in a single datacenter? My group is interested in performing a few 100-node experiments near the SIGCOMM deadline, and we're wondering if this would be possible

[mma...@wisc.edu]

I think it does, but I don't have concrete numbers for you. It's hard to get 100 nodes in the best of times. My recommendation would be to create a reservation a couple months in advance of the deadline.