PlanetLab

PlanetLab is an open, globally distributed testbed for developing, deploying and accessing planetary-scale network services. There are currently more than 160 machines at 65 sites world-wide available to support both short-term experiments and long-running network services. To date, more than 70 research projects at top academic institutions including MIT, Stanford, UC Berkeley, Princeton and the University of Washington have used PlanetLab to experiment with such diverse topics as distributed storage, network mapping, peer-to-peer systems, distributed hash tables, and distributed query processing. Many of the results from these experiments are now appearing in such internationally prestigious conferences as ACMs SIGCOMM and OSDI.