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CoMon: A Mostly-Scalable Monitoring System for <endeca_term>PlanetLab</endeca_term>

CoMon: A Mostly-Scalable Monitoring System for PlanetLab

CoMon is an evolving, mostly-scalable monitoring system for PlanetLab that has the goal of presenting environment tailored information for both the... Read more

1 January, 2011
RiaS - Overlay Topology Creation on a <endeca_term>PlanetLab</endeca_term> Infrastructure

RiaS - Overlay Topology Creation on a PlanetLab Infrastructure

The PlanetLab testbed was originally built to develop new technologies for distributed storage, network... Read more

3 September, 2010
<endeca_term>Planetlab</endeca_term> HD 3.0.2

Planetlab HD 3.0.2

Planetlab HD is an astrological workstation for your iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch... Read more

20 July, 2011
An Emulation Tool for <endeca_term>PlanetLab</endeca_term>

An Emulation Tool for PlanetLab

...scenarios. In this paper, the authors present an emulation solution for the PlanetLab testbed, and provide a detailed description of its features and performance. Their... Read more

23 June, 2011
Using <endeca_term>Planetlab</endeca_term> to Implement Multicast at the Application Level

Using Planetlab to Implement Multicast at the Application Level

...authors focus on the implementation of an application-layer multicast network using PlanetLab. They observe that the total time required to measure network latency over... Read more

1 January, 2011
Experimenting With P2P Traffic Optimization for Wireless Mesh Networks in a Federated OMF-<endeca_term>PlanetLab</endeca_term> Environment

Experimenting With P2P Traffic Optimization for Wireless Mesh Networks in a Federated OMF-PlanetLab Environment

...how they integrated an OMF-based1 wireless testbed in the planetary-scale PlanetLab testbed, making it possible for PlanetLab users to run experiments spanning on... Read more

5 October, 2010
Elite Proxy Switcher 1.19

Elite Proxy Switcher 1.19

...the details (speed, anonymity, country and whether ssl gateway, dangerous or codeen/planetlab) of the proxy and automatically change the proxy settings of your browsers... Read more

5 May, 2012
Towards a Representive Testbed: Harnessing Volunteers for Networks Research

Towards a Representive Testbed: Harnessing Volunteers for Networks Research

...testbed is required to test these systems. Several systems exist, such as PlanetLab, that currently provide a networking testbed allowing researchers and developers to test... Read more

6 March, 2012
Peer-Assisted Content Distribution on a Budget

Peer-Assisted Content Distribution on a Budget

...Their extensive evaluation of Cyclops in a variety of settings - including controlled PlanetLab and live Internet experiments involving thousands of users - shows a significant reduction... Read more

10 February, 2012
On Characteristics and Modeling of P2P Resources With Correlated Static and Dynamic Attributes

On Characteristics and Modeling of P2P Resources With Correlated Static and Dynamic Attributes

...dynamic attributes of P2P resources. The methodology is demonstrated using characteristics of PlanetLab node traces. First, a multi-attribute resource model is defined using a... Read more

1 December, 2011
Designing a Testbed for Large-Scale Distributed Systems

Designing a Testbed for Large-Scale Distributed Systems

...challenging. A few hundred nodes can be deployed on the Internet with PlanetLab, but it is not easy to get repeatable results when using a... Read more

19 August, 2011
New Directions for Self-Destructing Data Systems

New Directions for Self-Destructing Data Systems

...the Tide key-storage system on Apache, deployed it on over 400 PlanetLab nodes in the Internet, and demonstrated that the structure is highly immune... Read more

17 August, 2011
BTLab: A System-Centric, Data-Driven Analysis and Measurement Platform for BitTorrent Clients

BTLab: A System-Centric, Data-Driven Analysis and Measurement Platform for BitTorrent Clients

...differences. For their experiments, they deployed BTLab on a cluster and on Planetlab and selected four popular BitTorrent clients Read more

14 June, 2011
Measuring Multipath Routing in the Internet

Measuring Multipath Routing in the Internet

...in the Internet. The authors use Paris trace-route from RON and PlanetLab nodes to collect various datasets in 2007 and 2009. Their results show... Read more

1 June, 2011
Measurement and Analysis of Global IP-Usage Patterns of Fast-Flux Botnets

Measurement and Analysis of Global IP-Usage Patterns of Fast-Flux Botnets

...developed and deployed a lightweight DNS probing engine, called DIGGER, on 240 PlanetLab nodes spanning 4 continents. Collecting DNS data for over 3.5 months... Read more

27 March, 2011

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SoapyTablet

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apexwm

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What a farce! Hopefully the European court will see where this is leading.

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Wouldn't surprise me if Samsung actually really had problems producing the white model (as Apple did - it would make more sense) and this non-story...

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those conformation letters are hard to figure out what is which letters it is a pain in the back side. Please make it more Ledge-able being better...

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BrownieBoy

"cites" even. Ouch!

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Horace Ontalhold

...... and PDP11s too

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BrownieBoy

I had a quick skim through the PDF. It seems to be that many of these so-called cost savings would be down to a hardware refresh. Although...

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apexwm

Jack : I was hoping you could provide us a summary since you are familiar with this report. I am not yet sure how much of my time I'd like to...

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Smilig Eddie

2 – 4 more weeks of waiting: how many buyers are going to decide instead to see what the iPhone 5 offers? Consumer trust in the brand has also...

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SRist

So it looks like this was a complete red herring - Adobe are allowing upgrades from Photoshop CS3, CS4 and CS5 at the same price. When did this...

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Jack Schofield

@apexwm Have you considered either (a) reading the story above or (b) reading the PDF? There are answers in both.

23 hours ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
apexwm

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debsmk

I have just changed mine to white they said 3 to 5 days

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BrownieBoy

Well done to IDC for producing a report that says using XP is a waste of money. Only 11 years too late with it is all....

1 day ago by BrownieBoy on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC
Jack Schofield

@Burn-IT ...which doesn't mean it isn't true ;-) I'll be interested if you can find any properly-researched, independent data from any of the...

1 day ago by Jack Schofield on Using Windows XP is a waste of money, says IDC