DETERLab is transitioning to the new, NSF-funded SPHERE research infrastructure. Earlier this year, DETERLab users transitioned to a Merge-based DETER, which will serve as the basis for SPHERE. Please stay tuned for more information.

In the meantime, please VISIT THE NEW SPHERE PROJECT WEBSITE.

Infrastructure

Example of DeterLab Testbed Servers

DETERLab Testbed

DETERLab’s infrastructure is designed to support large-scale experiments with a wide variety of scalable resources, yet also provide certain protections to enable risky experiments closer to real-world environments.
These resources are operated and supported by the DETER team at at the University of Southern California’s Information Sciences Institute – in Los Angeles and Arlington, VA – and the University of California at Berkeley.

DETERLab’s facilities include:

  • Various local area network infrastructure elements and options at DETERLab locations
  • Wide area networking between locations
  • Ability to integrate one or more third-party network and computing facilities into experiments on-demand.
  • Nodes that may be configured in a variety of ways with any of several existing operating system and application software stacks, virtual machine monitors, VMs, network emulation elements, and network simulators.
  • A gatekeeper that protects the Internet-facing side of the testbed and controls access to the private network
  • Local and remote access to the node console by testbed users, who have the ability to power cycle a node if it hangs.

To create nodes in an experiment's network, these computing facilities are currently available:

  • Over 700 high-capacity multi-core server nodes:
    • 500 nodes at Los Angeles, CA
    • 200 nodes at Berkeley, CA