1 Internet-Scale Systems Research Group (ISRG) Retreat Winter 2000 Eric Brewer, David Culler, Anthony Joseph, Randy Katz Computer Science Division, EECS Department University of California, Berkeley, CA Cellular “Core” Network S. S. 7 NinjaICEBERG Millennium Endeavour

2 Presentation Outline Retreat Purpose and Agenda What is ISRG? Millennium/Ninja/Iceberg Endeavour Summary and Conclusions

3 Presentation Outline Retreat Purpose and Agenda What is ISRG? Millennium/Ninja/Iceberg Endeavour Summary and Conclusions

4 Retreat Goals & Technology Transfer UC Berkeley Project Team Industrial Collaborators Government Sponsors Friends People Project Status Work in Progress Prototype Technology Early Access to Technology Promising Directions Reality Check Feedback

5 Retreat Purpose Third joint ISRG-retreat –Formal research presentations –Cross-project workshop sessions Build on synergies across projects –Insure that everyone knows what everyone else is doing –Foster cooperative competition: learn from each other Entering the home stretch –More than half way point for Ninja, stage setting for next steps –Half way point for ICEBERG, last chance for mid-course correction!

6 Who is Here? Industrial –AT&T Labs –Canon –DaimlerChrysler –Ericsson –HRL –IBM –Intel –Lucent Bell Labs –Motorola –Philips Industrial –Nortel Networks –NTT Multimedia Labs –Siemens –Sprint Labs Academic –Stanford –SUNY Stony Brook –USC/ISI Government –Kevin Mills, NIST

7 Retreat Schedule Monday, January 10: Travel from Berkeley to Granlibbakkan Lunch ISRG Introductions and Retreat Overview (Randy Katz) Ninja Tutorial, Mike Chen ICEBERG Tutorial, Helen Wang Break Highlight Talks (Eric Brewer) Steve Gribble: Distributed Data Structures Jason Hill: Architecture for Ubiquitous Connectivity Steve Ross: Post-PC Security Architecture Jimmy Shih: Desktop Telephony Experiment Dinner Poster Session (Anthony Joseph) Social

8 Retreat Schedule Tuesday, January 11: Breakfast Parallel Sessions Applications: Universal In-Box (Bhaskar Raman) Personal Activity Coordination (Xia Hong) Similarity Search on Ninja Jukebox ( TBD ) Ninja Mail (Rob von Behren) Platforms: VSPace/Ninja 2 (Mike Chen) Fault Tolerant Paths (Morley Mao) Path Architecture (Sirish Chandrasekaran, Samuel Madden) Persistent X-Set: Lightweight XML DB (Ben Zhao) Break Theme-oriented Breakout Sessions (David Culler) Lunch/Recreation Break Breakouts continued Dinner Lookup Service Shootout (Eric Brewer) Social

9 Retreat Schedule Wednesday, January 12: Breakfast Parallel Project-oriented Sessions Ninja: TBD (Eric Brewer) Applications: Public Groupware Apps (Josh Macdonald) ICEBERG: Clearning House Design Review (Lakme, Remki, Chen-nee) PLEASE READ MATERIALS BEFOREHAND!! Break & Check-out Open Mike (David Culler) ISRG Wrap-up and Feedback Session (Randy Katz) Lunch Depart Granlibakkan

10 Presentation Outline Retreat Purpose and Agenda What is ISRG? Millennium Ninja Iceberg Endeavour Summary and Conclusions

11 Mission Lead the evolution of the Internet through fundamental protocol and systems research –Grounded in real-world prototypes that are deployed across diverse user communities –Unify on-going and future research projects –Facilitate technology transfer and standardization –Work closely with industrial partners in an open laboratory environment

12 Emerging Internet Service Business Model Global Packet Network Application-specific Overlay Networks (Multicast Tunnels, Mgmt Svrcs) Application-specific Servers (Streaming Media, Transformation) Internetworking (Connectivity) Appl Infrastructure Services (Distribution, Caching, Searching, Hosting) Applications (Portals, E-Commerce, E-Tainment, Media) ISP CLEC ASP Internet Data Centers AIP ISV

13 Strategy Leverage interdisciplinary systems expertise in network-based applications, scalable services, network-connected computing platforms Work collaboratively across applications, OS, networks, architecture Interact closely with industry, to obtain early access to leading edge technologies and facilitate tech transfer Cultivate ties with Bay Area (and beyond!) networking and systems research community

14 Internet-Scale Systems Extremely large, complex, distributed, heterogeneous, with continuous and rapid introduction of new technologies Feasible architectures –Decentralized, scalable algorithms –Dynamically deployed agents where they are needed –Incremental processing/communications growth –Cross-layer protocol design and optimization Prototyping and deployment-driven

15 Research Focus Infrastructure Services –Scalability –Availability –Pervasive Computing –Mobility –Proxies/Transcoders/Network Agents –Active Services Security and E-Commerce Novel Applications and Architectures

16 Experimental Testbed SimMillennium Network Infrastructure GSM BTS Millennium Cluster WLAN / Bluetooth Pager IBM WorkPad CF788 MC-16 Motorola Pagewriter Soda 326 Soda “Colab” 405 Soda Velo Smart Spaces Personal Information Management H.323 GW Nino Text Speech Image/OCR Fax

17 Presentation Outline Retreat Purpose and Agenda What is ISRG? Millennium/Ninja/Iceberg Endeavour Summary and Conclusions

18 Project Synergies ICEBERG Computer-Telephony Integration Service Creation ICEBERG Computer-Telephony Integration Service Creation Millennium Campus-Area Distributed Clusters Millennium Campus-Area Distributed Clusters NINJA Scalable, Secure Services in the Network NINJA Scalable, Secure Services in the Network Endeavour Post-PC Explorations Vastly Diverse Devices Oceanic Data Utility Sensor-Centric Data Mgmt Negotiation Architecture Tacit Knowledge I/F Intelligent Classrooms Design Methods Endeavour Post-PC Explorations Vastly Diverse Devices Oceanic Data Utility Sensor-Centric Data Mgmt Negotiation Architecture Tacit Knowledge I/F Intelligent Classrooms Design Methods

19 Millennium Project Goals Enable major advances in Computational Science and Engineering –Simulation, Modeling, and Information Processing becoming ubiquitous Explore novel design techniques for large, complex systems –Fundamental Computer Science problems ahead are problems of scale Develop fundamentally better ways of assimilating and interacting with large volumes of information –and with each other Explore emerging technologies –networking, OS, devices

20 Ninja Project Goals Create a framework that enables programmatic generation and composition of services from strongly typed reusable components Key Elements –Structured architecture with a careful partitioning of state »Bases, Active Routers, and Units –Wide-area paths formed out of strongly-typed components »Operators and Connectors –Execution environments with efficient, but powerful communication primitives »Active Messages + capsules »TACC + persistence + customization

21 ICEBERG Project Goals Demonstrate ease of new service deployment –Packet voice for computer-telephony integration –Speech- and location-enabled applications –Complete interoperation of speech, text, fax/image across the four P’s: PDAs, pads, pagers, phones) –Mobility and generalized routing redirection Demonstrate new system architecture to support innovative applications –Personal Information Management »Universal In-box: , news, fax, voice mail »Notification redirection: e.g., , pager –Home networking and control of “smart” spaces, sensor/actuator integration »Build on experience with A/V equipped rooms in Soda Hall

22 Presentation Outline Retreat Purpose and Agenda What is ISRG? Millennium/Ninja/Iceberg Endeavour Summary and Conclusions

23 The Endeavour Expedition: Devices in the eXtreme Evolution Information Appliances: Scaled down desktops, e.g., CarPC, PdaPC, etc. Evolved Desktops Servers: Scaled-up Desktops, Millennium Revolution Information Appliances: Many computers per person, MEMs, CCDs, LCDs, connectivity Servers: Integrated with comms infrastructure; Lots of computing in small footprint Display Keyboard Disk Mem  Proc PC Evolution Display Camera Smart Sensors Camera Smart Spaces Computing Revolution WAN Server, Mem, Disk Information Utility BANG! Display Mem Disk  Proc

24 Endeavour Technical Approach Information Devices –Beyond desktop computers to MEMS-sensors/actuators with capture/display to yield enhanced activity spaces Information Utility Information Applications –High Speed/Collaborative Decision Making and Learning –Augmented “Smart” Spaces: Rooms and Vehicles Design Methodology –User-centric Design with HW/SW Co-design; –Formal methods for safe and trustworthy decomposable and reusable components “Fluid”, Network-Centric System Software –Partitioning and management of state between soft and persistent state –Data processing placement and movement –Component discovery and negotiation –Flexible capture, self- organization, and re-use of information

25 Presentation Outline Retreat Purpose and Agenda What is ISRG? MASH Millennium/Ninja/Iceberg Endeavour Summary and Conclusions

26 Summary and Conclusions Internet-Scale Systems Research Group: Emerging Network-centric Distributed Architecture spanning processing and access Open, composable services architecture--the wide-area “operating system” of the 21st Century Beyond the desktop PC: information appliances supported by infrastructure services--multicast real- time media plus proxies for any-to-any format translation and delivery to diverse devices Common network core: optimized for data, based on IP, enabling packetized voice, supporting user, terminal, and service mobility New capability and applications focus: Endeavour

27 Participating ISRG Sponsors Service Companies Computer Companies Communications Companies