Overview of ISISlab

Thanks to funding from the Office of Naval Research (ONR), DARPA, and Lockheed Martin, the DOC group at ISIS has created ISISlab, which is an open testbed for experimentation on distributed real-time and embedded (DRE) systems and distributed continuous quality assurance. ISISlab is part of the Advanced Computing Center for Research and Education (ACCRE) cluster at Vanderbilt University. ISISlab is associated with the Skoll Cluster cluster at the University of Maryland.

The following is a summary of the software, hardware, and networking equipment in the ISISlab cluster:

56 dual-CPU blades running 2.8 Gz XEONs with 1 GB memory, 40 GB disks, and 4 NICs per blades.
4 blade centers with 14 blades per center.
6 Cisco 3750G switches with 24 10/100/1000 MPS ports per switch.
Emulab software is used to provide the ability to reconfigure experiments via the web.
Support for various versions of Linux, *BSD UNIX, Windows, and Solaris.

The hardware has arrived and is assembled. The network switches have arrived and are installed. The software is installed and the list of operational notes is available here.

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