Internet-Scale Systems Research Group (ISRG)

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Internet-Scale Systems Research Group (ISRG)
Millennium
Endeavour
Ninja
ICEBERG

• Eric Brewer, David Culler,Anthony Joseph, Randy
  Katz
• Computer Science Division, EECS Department
• University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-1776
• http//www.cs.Berkeley.edu/randy/Talks/DC.08Feb00
  .ppt

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The Post-PC RevolutionIts About Services
Applications (Portals, E-Commerce, E-Tainment,
Media)
Appl Infrastructure Services (Distribution,
Caching, Searching, Hosting)
AIP ISV
Application-specific Servers (Streaming Media,
Transformation)
ASP Internet Data Centers
Application-specific Overlay Networks (Multicast
Tunnels, Mgmt Svrcs)
ISP CLEC
Internetworking (Connectivity)
Global Packet Network
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In-Vehicle ServiceScenario
ISP Backbone
Revenue Model Subscription fees and equipment
purchase vs. advertiser pays for targeted ad
insertion based on location, activity, vehicle
owner demographics, etc.
Internet
Scalable Servers
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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

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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

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ISRG Research Focus

• Infrastructure Services
• Scalability
• Availability
• Pervasive Computing
• Mobility
• Proxies/Transcoders/Network Agents
• Active Services
• Security and E-Commerce
• PKI
• Computational Economy
• Novel Applications and Architectures
• Universal In-Box
• IVR/Room Control

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Experimental Testbed
Fax
IBM WorkPad
Image/OCR
Velo
Text
Nino
Speech
MC-16
Motorola Pagewriter 2000
CF788
Pager
WLAN / Bluetooth
306 Soda
405 Soda
H.323 GW
326 Soda Colab
GSM BTS
Millennium Cluster
Smart Spaces Personal Information Management
Millennium Cluster
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Project Synergies
ICEBERG Computer-TelephonyIntegration Service
Creation
Endeavour Post-PC Explorations Vastly Diverse
Devices Oceanic Data Utility Sensor-Centric Data
Mgmt Negotiation Architecture Tacit Knowledge
I/F Intelligent Classrooms Design Methods
NINJA Scalable, Secure Services in the Network
Millennium Campus-Area Distributed Clusters
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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

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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

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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 Ps PDAs, pads,
  pagers, phones)
• Mobility and generalized routing redirection
• Demonstrate new system architecture to support
  innovative applications
• Personal Information Management
• Universal In-box e-mail, news, fax, voice mail
• Notification redirection e.g., e-mail, pager
• Home networking and control of smart spaces,
  sensor/actuator integration
• Build on experience with A/V equipped rooms in
  Soda Hall

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The Endeavour Expedition Devices in the eXtreme
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Endeavour Technical Approach

• Information Devices
• Beyond desktop computers to MEMS-sensors/actuators
  with capture/display to yield enhanced activity
  spaces
• InformationUtility
• InformationApplications
• High Speed/Collaborative Decision Making and
  Learning
• Augmented Smart Spaces Rooms and Vehicles
• Design Methodology
• User-centric Design withHW/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

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Industrial Collaborators
SRI
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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