Intel, Indian institutes to set up PlanetLab
Friday, 14 May 2004, 19:30 IST
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BANGALORE: Intel India has joined hands with two leading Indian institutes to set up the first PlanetLab, a virtual laboratory, in the country. Indian Institute of Information Technology Bangalore (IIIT-B) and the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IIT-R) are partnering Intel India, a subsidiary of the leading global chipmaker. PlanetLab creates a virtual laboratory that researchers around the world can use to develop novel Internet services. There are currently over 370 machines at 156 sites available worldwide to support both short-term experiments and long-running network services. "PlanetLab is an excellent example of the new open, collaborative research model that allows academic and industry researchers to work together for new emerging technologies," Frank Spindler, vice president of the corporate technology group of Intel Corporation, said in a statement Thursday. "With today's announcement, India will play a role in developing a new class of services and applications that are distributed over much of the web and will affect the design of intelligent servers, network storage and network processors." Researchers from the two premier institutes and Intel India will work together to define and deploy new robust services in PlanetLab. "The PlanetLab test bed will be used to implement and test the performance of various protocols for networking and distributed computing and to develop location independent information systems," the company said. Intel expects that a majority of implementation and evaluation would take place in India on nodes participating in PlanetLab and that many services would eventually migrate into the global PlanetLab infrastructure.
Source: IANS
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