UC's PlanetLab Contribution Upgraded Thanks to Major Equipment Donation from HP

The Department of Computer Science has participated in the PlanetLab project for over four years, and has now carried out a significant hardware and software upgrade thanks to a significant donation of new machines from Hewlett-Packard. One of PlanetLab's main purposes is to serve as a testbed for overlay networks, and research groups at UC and other collaborating institutions are able to request a PlanetLab slice in which they can experiment with a variety of planetary-scale services, including file sharing and network-embedded storage, content distribution networks, routing and multicast overlays, QoS overlays, scalable object location, scalable event propagation, anomaly detection mechanisms, and network measurement tools. There are currently over 800 computing nodes and 600 active research projects running on PlanetLab. Thanks goes to recent Computer Science PhD student, Chad Yoshikawa, who has maintained UC's nodes and carried out the recent upgrade. Chad used PlanetLab to validate his PhD work on distributed load balancing algorithms. If you are interested in getting involved in PlanetLab please contact Prof. Fred Annexstein or Prof. Ken Berman.