New Maintenance Time
Please note we have moved weekly maintenance from Thursday to Wednesday afternoons, from 3:00PM to 5:00PM EST.
ORBIT News
New Power Supplies
We started replacing internal power supplies with external ones and the progress can be monitored here. New power supplies are 200 W FSP200-50PLA2 This round of replacement doesn't have aesthetic qualities of the original (as can be seen in the attached picture) but definitely solves the reliability problem. And the pile of old internal power supplies is growing (if anybody has an idea of what to do with them please let us know). It is expected that the upgrade will be completed, at least for the failed units, in the next two-three weeks. (...)
New grid reservation policies
Effective immediately, we'll be using the following policies to try to ensure that access to the grid and sandboxes is allocated fairly and efficiently. Also, these policies should make planning out your time on ORBIT more reliable. (...)
First ORBIT user group meeting
The first ORBIT Users Group meeting was held on June 6th 2006. Some main points discussed were:
1) Wireless driver
- Features
- Usage
- Libmac
2) Measurements (OML)
- What is needed?
- How do people use it for?
3) Portal (...)
64 node sandbox sb9 decommissioned
Sandbox9 (the original 64 node grid) has been decommissioned. The prototype grid served us well and allowed us to design scalable software and infrastructure that aided in the design of the 400 node grid.
Current experimenters scheduled on sb9 are requested to use the bigger grid for the same (...)
Big Grid
Big ORBIT grid is operational! The small 64 node grid (nodes on the shelfs in the corner of the picture) will continue to be available as sandbox 9.
Support for Popular Traffic Generators
Based on user requests, we have added support for additional traffic generators commonly used such as Iperf already and are working on integrating D-ITG with the ORBIT measurement framework. This will give users a capability to make use of these tools in addition to our own traffic generator (OTG) which allows CBR, Expoo traffic (TCP or UDP) with controllable offered loads and additional Phy layer measurements (...)
