Testbed Infrastructure for Research Activities

Research activities at CSG are supported by a highly flexible testbed infrastructure. Testbed nodes can be used for dedicated research projects or student theses by CSG staff members and their students.

Please contact the testbed administrators Andrei Vancea or Guilherme Sperb Machado if you need an account.

Network Topology

Facts and Figures

• 30 Dell PowerEdge 850, Pentium 4, 3.6 GHz, 1 GB RAM
• 2 Dell PowerEdge 850, Pentium 4, 3.6 GHz, 2 GB RAM, 500 GB HDD
• 2 PlanetLab nodes, Pentium 4, 3.0 GHz, 1GB RAM

• 1 Cisco Catalyst 3750, 24xGE, 4x SFP
• 1 HP ProCurve Switch 2626, 24xFE, 2xGE
• 1 HP ProCurve Switch 2824, 24xGE
• 1 Linksys SRW2024, 24xGE
• 2 ASUS WL-500G Deluxe, 802.11b/g, 5xFE

• 1 Dell PowerVault MD1000, 1.5 TB HDD (max. 7.5 TB HDD)
  
• 2 42U Racks
• APC 3000UPS, 2700 W

• Approx. length of cabling: 0.25 km
  
• Total amount of disk space: 7.2 TB
• Total amount of memory: 36 GB
• Computational power: 0.3 TFLOPS

Purpose

• Development, testing, and analysis of distributed Internet applications
• Complete isolation of research testbed network from UZH's network
  => The research network is considered as an outside network

• Dual stack networking: IPv4 and IPv6
  Future extension: IPv6 connectivity with multicast

Projects

• European Network of Excellence for the Management of Internet Technologies and Complex Services
• Access to Knowledge Through Grids in a Mobile World
• Biometric Access Control
• Distributed Accounting and Auditing Management for Multiple Mobile Network Operators
• PeerMart: A Decentralized Auction-based P2P Market
• PlanetLab: An open platform for developing, deploying and accessing planetary-scale services
  

Monitoring

• Web interfaces for remote operation monitoring

• Real-time status of performance parameters
• Email notifications when anomalies are detected
• SMS notifications for critical problems
  

Management

• Operable remotely in full (during installation and operation)
• Fully Automatic Installation (FAI)
• Complete (re-)installation in approx. 5 minutes
• Dedicated VLAN for management tasks
• IPMI-based OS-absent hardware management