NetScale Facilities

Network Emulation/Simulation Testbed

We have set of 17 machines located downtown at the Union Station facility which we use for network emulation and simulation.

• 7 Sun v60x nodes w/dual ig E PCI cards connected via a Gig E mesh
• 16 Sun v60x nodes (NetScale01 through NetScale16) - computation via Condor

Support Nodes

• Webserver - Sun v210 - Netscale.cse.nd.edu
• Two Sun X2100 servers acting as storage repositories w/1.5 TB each
  • One for the Lockdown project, one for our NFS repositories
  • Each running Solaris 10 x86 with ZFS
• Sun Ray server - Sun v440

Custom Machines

• Sun M20 workstation with a GeForce 8800 card for investigating GPU performance
• Playstation 3 - Cell processor assessment
• Cheap Logger - Sun workstation with 6x Mac Minis each with 1 TB firewire drives
• 6x Mac Minis configured for security (LockDown project) or wireless reliability assessments (Mad WiFi driver)
• Workstation with an Intel IXP 2350 for IXP development (Opportunistic Wireless Broadcast)

Sun Blade 2000 - 4x Dual Xeon blades

Support for the NetScale facilities was provided in part by equipment grants from Sun Microsystems, Hewlett Packard, Intel, NSF, and Architecture Technology Corporation.