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CERN Computing Colloquium
PlanetLab: A Worldwide Deployment Infrastructure for the Next Generation of Network Services
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Europe/Zurich
500/1-001 - Main Auditorium (CERN)
Description
PlanetLab is an open, globally distributed platform for developing, deploying and accessing planetary-scale network services.
Though the global Internet has been a tremendous success, it today consists largely of localized services accessed over the wide area. The next logical step is wide-area services: services which run, both logically and in fact, over the entire Internet. Such services are highly resistant to localized failures such as flash crowds, denial-of-service attacks, network congestion and power and data center failures.
While descriptions of such services have become increasingly common in the systems community literature over the past several years, each such service requires a large-scale deployment platform, often in the tens or hundreds of nodes scattered across the entire Internet, and it is clear that the construction of such a platform is a large and daunting task. The solution is to share the platform among many such services. PlanetLab, an open shared deployment platform for wide-area services, is the response of the systems community to this challenge.
Today PlanetLab is an overlay network consisting of over 350 nodes at over 150 sites worldwide, governed by a consortium centered at Princeton University, and hosts more than 450 short-running experiments and long-term network services.
This talk will describe PlanetLab, focussing particularly on the applications that developers are deploying on PlanetLab and the unique features that such a worldwide overlay displays.
Bio:
Rick McGeer earned his Ph. D. in Computer Science from UC-Berkeley in 1989. From 1989-1991 he was a professor in the Computer Sciences department at the University of British Columbia. In 1991 he returned to UC-Berkeley as a Research Engineer in the EECS Department. In 1993, together with Alex Saldanha, Luciano Lavagno, Alberto Sangiovanni-Vicentelli and Patrick Scaglia, he founded the Cadence Berkeley Labs where he served as a Research Scientist until 1999. In 1998, together with Alex Saldanha, he founded Softface, Inc., a successful software startup currently based in Walnut Creek, CA.
Rick is the author of over 50 refereed technical publications, 'Integrating Functional and Temporal Domains in Logic Design' (Kluwer, 1991), holds seven patents and has won best paper awards at the International Conference on VLSI, the Cadence Technical Conference and the Hawaii International Conference on the System Sciences. He has served on numerous conference technical committees, and has served as General Chair of the IEEE Workshop on VLSI, the ACM/IEEE Workshop on Logic Synthesis, and the founding General Chair of the Tau Workshop series. He serves today on the steering committee of the PlanetLab Consortium, where he leads the Community Development Working Group.
Though the global Internet has been a tremendous success, it today consists largely of localized services accessed over the wide area. The next logical step is wide-area services: services which run, both logically and in fact, over the entire Internet. Such services are highly resistant to localized failures such as flash crowds, denial-of-service attacks, network congestion and power and data center failures.
While descriptions of such services have become increasingly common in the systems community literature over the past several years, each such service requires a large-scale deployment platform, often in the tens or hundreds of nodes scattered across the entire Internet, and it is clear that the construction of such a platform is a large and daunting task. The solution is to share the platform among many such services. PlanetLab, an open shared deployment platform for wide-area services, is the response of the systems community to this challenge.
Today PlanetLab is an overlay network consisting of over 350 nodes at over 150 sites worldwide, governed by a consortium centered at Princeton University, and hosts more than 450 short-running experiments and long-term network services.
This talk will describe PlanetLab, focussing particularly on the applications that developers are deploying on PlanetLab and the unique features that such a worldwide overlay displays.
Bio:
Rick McGeer earned his Ph. D. in Computer Science from UC-Berkeley in 1989. From 1989-1991 he was a professor in the Computer Sciences department at the University of British Columbia. In 1991 he returned to UC-Berkeley as a Research Engineer in the EECS Department. In 1993, together with Alex Saldanha, Luciano Lavagno, Alberto Sangiovanni-Vicentelli and Patrick Scaglia, he founded the Cadence Berkeley Labs where he served as a Research Scientist until 1999. In 1998, together with Alex Saldanha, he founded Softface, Inc., a successful software startup currently based in Walnut Creek, CA.
Rick is the author of over 50 refereed technical publications, 'Integrating Functional and Temporal Domains in Logic Design' (Kluwer, 1991), holds seven patents and has won best paper awards at the International Conference on VLSI, the Cadence Technical Conference and the Hawaii International Conference on the System Sciences. He has served on numerous conference technical committees, and has served as General Chair of the IEEE Workshop on VLSI, the ACM/IEEE Workshop on Logic Synthesis, and the founding General Chair of the Tau Workshop series. He serves today on the steering committee of the PlanetLab Consortium, where he leads the Community Development Working Group.