Supercharged PlanetLab Platform Architecture

Jonathan Turner
2009
This report describes the Supercharged Planetlab Platform (SPP), a system designed as a prototype of an internet-scale overlay hosting platform. Overlay networks have become an important vehicle for delivering Internet applications. Overlay network nodes are typically implemented using general purpose servers or clusters. The SPP offers a more integrated architecture, combining general-purpose servers with high performance Network Processor (NP) subsystems. SPP nodes have recently been deployed
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doi:10.7936/k7474832 fatcat:jmhgvj5nsva5boyxddw4dipnau