Indian groups join Intel's PlanetLab
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By Dinesh C. Sharma
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Story last modified May 17, 2004, 9:18 AM PDT
Intel has expanded its PlanetLab project to include two technology
institutes in India.
The chipmaker said that the groups, the Bangalore-based Indian
Institute of Information Technology and the Roorkee-based Indian
Institute of Technology, will test the performance of networking and
distributed-computing protocols being developed as part of the
PlanetLab program.
PlanetLab is an open, distributed network being used to try out new
technologies in areas like distributed storage, network mapping,
peer-to-peer systems, distributed hash tables and distributed query
processing. The program operates at 156 sites worldwide. It is one of
several research initiatives that Intel is working on in conjunction
with universities and other academic groups.
The company said researchers from the two centers will work closely
with those from Intel India. Additionally, workers at the Indian
PlanetLab institutes will collaborate with those from other countries
to solve technical and non-technical problems.
"PlanetLab creates a virtual laboratory that researchers around the
world can use to develop novel Internet services, while at the same
time exploring how to evolve the Internet to better support continued
innovation," Frank Spindler, vice president of Intel's corporate
technology group, said in a statement. "India will play a role in
developing a new class of services and applications that are
distributed over much of the Web and will affect the design of
intelligent servers, network storage and network processors."
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