Posted by Creativity Cafe (64.75.147.63) on June 25, 2003 at 23:49:52:
INTEL TEAMS WITH HIGHER EDUCATION ON GLOBAL NETWORK
Intel is teaming up with a group of universities around the world to
create a new network, called PlanetLab, that will comprise 1,000
servers in 16 countries. The goal of PlanetLab, which functions on top
of the Internet but is separate, is to provide opportunities for
researchers to build and test applications designed to work
simultaneously on computers across the globe, accessing data from
separate storage systems. Dave Culler, one of the researchers involved
in the project, said, "In the future, applications will spread
themselves over a large fraction of the planet," and, according to
Larry Peterson, one of the project's designers, "Simulation and
emulation doesn't cut it." Institutions taking part in PlanetLab
include Princeton University; the University of California at Berkeley;
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Harvard University; Cornell
University; Rice University; and universities in Israel, China,
England, Sweden, Taiwan, and Germany.
CNET, 23 June 2003