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Links, for the curious: http://www.planet-lab.org http://www.planet-lab.org http://www.hpl.hp.com/open_innovation/cloud_collaboration/cloud_technical_overview
by sparky 17y ago
Links, for the curious:
http://www.planet-lab.org http://www.planet-lab.org
http://www.hpl.hp.com/open_innovation/cloud_collaboration/cloud_technical_overview.html http://www.hpl.hp.com/open_innovation/cloud_collaboration/cl...
http://cloud.cs.illinois.edu/ http://cloud.cs.illinois.edu/
http://www.cs.duke.edu/courses/spring08/cps214/project.html http://www.cs.duke.edu/courses/spring08/cps214/project.html (Testbeds and Emulation section)
- wmf 17y agoPlanetLab and the clouds are great ways to do non-reproducible research, because the other users in the system (where sometimes "the system" is the public Internet) create interference. Reproducible networking research either has to be simulated or has to be run on an isolated testbed such as Emulab.
- sparky 17y agoThe results from PlanetLab et al. may not be deterministic, but you should be able to reach the same conclusions based on repeated experiments. Otherwise, your results may be a little too fragile to form the basis of sweeping conclusions. This may not be ideal, but it is no worse than any branch of science which is not purely digital.
- jwhite 17y agoNICTA and WinLab have developed a management framework called OMF for specifying and running experiments on testbed networks. One of the main goals of the project is to improve reproducibility in networking research. http://omf.mytestbed.net http://omf.mytestbed.net (It is mainly written in Ruby)