PlanetLab was inaugurated at a meeting at the Intel Berkeley Lab in
March 2002, with a number of participants
from various US universities, plus some Intel people.
This page is an amalgamation of the original agenda, talks by the
participants, and notes taken at the meeting. Apologies for any inaccuracies.
Agenda
Introductory Discussion, Goals, Agenda:
Basic take from each of the players: each intitution gave a 10+5 minute presentation to cover the following
questions:
- What are the minimal requirements for the DTL?
- What is your wish-list of capability?
- What are the existing building-blocks you would incorporate?
- What experiments, investigations, developments would you do
- What do you see as the key stumbling blocks?
The presentations:
- Peter Druschel (Rice): Distributed test-lab: our take
[ppt slides, pdf slides, scribe notes]
- Amin Vahdat (Duke): Utility Computing
[ppt slides, pdf slides, scribe notes]
- Hari Balakrishnan (MIT): Overlay Infrastructure
[ppt slides, pdf slides, scribe notes]
- Dave Andersen (MIT): Current RON testbed
[ps slides, pdf slides, scribe notes]
- Srini Seshan (CMU): DTL Requirements
[ppt slides, pdf slides, scribe
notes]
- Randy Wang (Princeton): Network-Embedded Programmable Storage and Its Applications
[ppt slides, pdf slides, scribe notes]
- Jay Lepreau (Utah): Emulab and its lessons and value for A Distributed Testbed
[ppt slides, pdf slides, scribe notes]
- Anthony Joseph (Berkeley): Global- scale P2P Networking
[ppt slides, pdf slides, scribe notes]
- Andrew Campbell (Columbia): DTL: Is Networking Research Out?
[ppt slides, pdf slides, scribe notes]
- Tom Anderson (UWashington): UW DTL
[scribe notes]
Architectural Sketch (a compilation of ideas)
Political and procedual issues
Wrapup.
Participants
In no particular order:
- Princeton University: Larry Peterson, Randy Wang
- University of Utah: Jay Lepreau
- University of Washinton: Tom Anderson, David Wetherall, Robert Grimm
- Massachussetts Institute of Technology: Hari Balakrishnan, David Andersen, Alex Snoeren
- University of California at Berkeley: Ion Stoica, Joseph Hellerstein, David Culler, John Kubiatowicz, Ben
Zhao, Timothy Roscoe
- ICSI Center for Internet Research: Scott Shenker, Sylvia Ratnasamy
- Rice University: Peter Druschel
- Duke University: Amin Vahdat (by phone)
- Carnegie-Mellon University: Srini Seshan
- Columbia University: Andrew Campbell
- Intel Research: David Tennenhouse, Hans Mulder, Michael Condry, Abel Weinrib (phone), Milan Milenkovic
Original scribe notes
