InternetScale Systems Research Group ISRG Retreat Winter 2000

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Internet-Scale Systems Research Group (ISRG)
RetreatWinter 2000
Millennium
Endeavour
Ninja
ICEBERG

• Eric Brewer, David Culler,Anthony Joseph, Randy
  Katz
• Computer Science Division, EECS Department
• University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-1776

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Presentation Outline

• Retreat Purpose and Agenda
• What is ISRG?
• Millennium/Ninja/Iceberg
• Endeavour
• Summary and Conclusions

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Presentation Outline

• Retreat Purpose and Agenda
• What is ISRG?
• Millennium/Ninja/Iceberg
• Endeavour
• Summary and Conclusions

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Retreat Goals Technology Transfer
People Project Status Work in Progress Prototype
Technology
Early Access to Technology Promising Directions
Reality Check Feedback
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Retreat Purpose

• Third joint ISRG-retreat
• Formal research presentations
• Cross-project workshop sessions
• Build on synergies across projects
• Insure that everyone knows what everyone else is
  doing
• Foster cooperative competition learn from each
  other
• Entering the home stretch
• More than half way point for Ninja, stage setting
  for next steps
• Half way point for ICEBERG, last chance for
  mid-course correction!

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Who is Here?

• Industrial
• ATT Labs
• Canon
• DaimlerChrysler
• Ericsson
• HRL
• IBM
• Intel
• Lucent Bell Labs
• Motorola
• Philips

• Industrial
• Nortel Networks
• NTT Multimedia Labs
• Siemens
• Sprint Labs
• Academic
• Stanford
• SUNY Stony Brook
• USC/ISI
• Government
• Kevin Mills, NIST

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Retreat Schedule

• Monday, January 10
• 0800 - 1200 Travel from Berkeley to Granlibbakkan
• 1200 - 1300 Lunch
• 1300 - 1330 ISRG Introductions and Retreat
  Overview (Randy Katz)
• 1330 - 1415 Ninja Tutorial, Mike Chen
• 1415 - 1530 ICEBERG Tutorial, Helen Wang
• 1530 - 1600 Break
• 1600 - 1800 Highlight Talks (Eric Brewer)
• Steve Gribble Distributed Data
  Structures Jason Hill Architecture for
  Ubiquitous Connectivity Steve Ross Post-PC
  Security Architecture Jimmy Shih Desktop
  Telephony Experiment
• 1800 - 1930 Dinner
• 1930 - 2100 Poster Session (Anthony Joseph)
• 2100 - Social

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Retreat Schedule

• Tuesday, January 11
• 0730 - 0830 Breakfast
• 0830 - 1000 Parallel Sessions
• Applications Universal In-Box (Bhaskar
  Raman) Personal Activity Coordination
  (Xia Hong) Similarity Search on Ninja
  Jukebox ( TBD ) Ninja Mail (Rob von
  Behren)
• Platforms VSPace/Ninja 2 (Mike Chen)
  Fault Tolerant Paths (Morley Mao) Path
  Architecture (Sirish Chandrasekaran, Samuel
  Madden)
  Persistent X-Set Lightweight XML DB
  (Ben Zhao)
• 1000 - 1030 Break
• 1030 - 1200 Theme-oriented Breakout Sessions
  (David Culler)
• 1200 - 1700 Lunch/Recreation Break
• 1700 - 1800 Breakouts continued
• 1800 - 1930 Dinner
• 1930 - 2100 Lookup Service Shootout (Eric Brewer)
• 2100 - Social

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Retreat Schedule

• Wednesday, January 12
• 0730 - 0830 Breakfast
• 0830 - 1000 Parallel Project-oriented Sessions
• Ninja TBD (Eric Brewer)
• Applications Public Groupware Apps (Josh
  Macdonald)
• ICEBERG Clearning House Design Review
  (Lakme, Remki, Chen-nee) PLEASE READ
  MATERIALS BEFOREHAND!!
• 1000 - 1030 Break Check-out
• 1030 - 1100 Open Mike (David Culler)
• 1100 - 1200 ISRG Wrap-up and Feedback Session
  (Randy Katz)
• 1200 - 1300 Lunch
• 1300 - Depart Granlibakkan

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Presentation Outline

• Retreat Purpose and Agenda
• What is ISRG?
• Millennium
• Ninja
• Iceberg
• Endeavour
• Summary and Conclusions

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Mission

• Lead the evolution of the Internet through
  fundamental protocol and systems research
• Grounded in real-world prototypes that are
  deployed across diverse user communities
• Unify on-going and future research projects
• Facilitate technology transfer and
  standardization
• Work closely with industrial partners in an open
  laboratory environment

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Emerging Internet Service Business Model
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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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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Research Focus

• Infrastructure Services
• Scalability
• Availability
• Pervasive Computing
• Mobility
• Proxies/Transcoders/Network Agents
• Active Services
• Security and E-Commerce
• Novel Applications and Architectures

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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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Presentation Outline

• Retreat Purpose and Agenda
• What is ISRG?
• Millennium/Ninja/Iceberg
• Endeavour
• Summary and Conclusions

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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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Presentation Outline

• Retreat Purpose and Agenda
• What is ISRG?
• Millennium/Ninja/Iceberg
• Endeavour
• Summary and Conclusions

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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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Presentation Outline

• Retreat Purpose and Agenda
• What is ISRG?
• MASH
• Millennium/Ninja/Iceberg
• Endeavour
• Summary and Conclusions

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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

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Participating ISRG Sponsors