1. Rick McGeer, CITRIS Scientific Liaison HP Labs
CITRIS & PlanetLab: Two Case Studies in University/Industry Collaboration
Rick McGeer,
CITRIS Scientific Liaison
HP Labs

2. CITRIS: Center For Information Technology Research In Society
Four-campus UC Center
Merced, Santa Cruz, Davis, Berkeley
$100M in funding
Private funding matched 1:2 by state of California
Corporate Members (including HP) pledge $1.5M/year in funding
Wide variety of topics
Wide-area applications, information technology in the 3rd world, sensor networks and applications, information technology for energy conservation…
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HP & CITRIS
Patrick Scaglia (VP, HP Labs) Chairman of CITRIS FCM Board
“Do Together What We Could Not Do Alone”
HP’s involvement run from labs
Fund collaborations: proposals come from HPL researchers
Look for collaborative opportunities with other CITRIS companies
Now over 20 joint projects, all four campuses
Deep collaborations in ICT4B, educational technology, PlanetLab, UC Merced
Defining new research areas together (5/04: Workshop on Planetary-scale applications)
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What is PlanetLab?
A planetary-scale “overlay” network
Just a bunch of Linux machines that have agreed to communicate
Global account: account on the whole network
Go beyond protocols to services and applications
“The next internet will be created as an overlay in the current one” (NRC)
What’s it good for?
A platform for running planetary-scale distributed applications
A platform for critical, pervasive, robust services
Characteristic of the next generation of the Internet
Joint Academic/Government/Industry Consortium has formed
Formally announced in late June ‘03
Hosted by Princeton, U Washington, and UC Berkeley
Google has joined HP and Intel as founding industrial members
NSF funded
Top computer science institutions engaged
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5. Who’s Involved? Partial list of Current Institutions
Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Boston University
Caltech
Carnegie Mellon University
Chinese Univ of Hong Kong
Columbia University
Cornell University
Datalogisk Institut Copenhagen
Duke University
Georgia Tech
Google
Harvard University
HP Labs
Intel Research
Johns Hopkins
Lancaster University
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
MIT
Michigan State University
National Tsing Hua Univ.
New York University
Northwestern University
Oregon Graduate institute
Princeton University
Purdue University
Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst.
Rice University
Rutgers University
Stanford University
Technische Universitat Berlin
The Hebrew Univ of Jerusalem
University College London
University of Arizona
University of Basel
University of Bologna
University of British Columbia
UC Berkeley
UCLA
UC San Diego
UC Santa Barbara
University of Calgary
University of Cambridge
University of Canterbury
University of Chicago
University of Illinois
University of Kansas
University of Kentucky
University of Maryland
University of Massachusetts
University of Michigan
University of New Brunswick
University of North Carolina
University of Oregon
University of Pennsylvania
University of Rochester
USC / ISI
University of Technology Sydney
University of Tennessee
University of Texas
University of Toronto
University of Utah
University of Virginia
University of Washington
University of Wisconsin
Uppsala University, Sweden
Washington University in St Louis
Wayne State University
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PlanetLab Today
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PlanetLab
140 Universities and non-profits
10 companies, now and in process
Steering committee
Princeton, Berkeley, UW, MIT, Cambridge, Intel, HP
Many joint projects
Intel/HP, Intel/Princeton, HP/Princeton, Intel/UCSD, Princeton/NAI/GMU/Berkeley/Anagran/HP, Princeton/Arizona…
Joint project topics
Internet public health, security architecture, resource allocation, environment/deployment services
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Why Does It Work?
Shared infrastructure
No logistical/security problems with joint projects
Composition of services eases code integration
We’re building it!
PlanetLab is the platform for wide-area distributed services
Need to build out the system
Greenfield: everything needs building, everything immediately used
Easy
Can write code right after getting idea
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Conclusion
Collaboration works when we work
Companies must contribute expertise and effort as well as funding
Technology transfer happens from people working side-by-side
Need to develop joint dependency
Focused tasks are vital
Best successes occur when we’ve got to get it done
IP concerns are minimal
If we have an IP problem, it’s the wrong project
Too near-term focussed
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