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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 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.

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