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

• 8 Dell PowerEdge R815, AMD Opteron 6180 2x12 cores, 2.5 GHz, 64 GB RAM, 500 GB (7.2k) + 146 GB (15k)
• 20 Dell PowerEdge 850, Pentium 4, 3.6 GHz, 4 GB RAM, 256 GB HDD
• 1 Dell PowerEdge 1950, Intel Xeon E5440, 2.8 GHz, 32 GB RAM, 2x500 GB HDD
• 3 Dell PowerEdge R610, Intel Xeon E5520, 2.2 GHz, 48 GB RAM, 2x500 GB HDD
• 6 Dell PowerEdge R300, Intel Xeon E3113, 3.0 GHz, 4 GB RAM, 256 GB HDD
• 2 PlanetLab nodes, Dell PowerEdge R710, Intel Xeon, 2.66 GHz, 12GB RAM

• 1 Cisco Catalyst 3750, 24xGE, 4x SFP
• 1 HP ProCurve 2626, 24xFE, 2xGE
• 1 HP ProCurve 2824, 24xGE
• 1 Linksys SRW2024, 24xGE
• 1 Netgear 7224, 24xGE

• 1 Dell PowerVault MD1000, 9 TB HDD
• 2 42U Racks
• APC 3000UPS, 2700W

• Approx. length of cabling: 0.25 km
  
• Total amount of disk space: 22 TB
• Total amount of memory: 819 GB
• Computational power: ~2.9 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