Tools

PlanetLab

Brian Sanderson has written a tutorial on using PlanetLab, based on his experiences with it. He has also provided the following scripts:

• download_nodes.py -- Python script to add nodes to a slice
• vxargs.py -- Python script to run commands in parallel on many PlanetLab machines.
• btserver.service, btserver -- example showing how to use a POSIX service to run a script that you can start from a remote machine.
push_distro.sh, build-successlists.py, merge-lists.py -- shell scripts to deploy code to PlanetLab nodes.
• workload-generator.py -- Python script to run an experiment on PlanetLab, using a workload generator to decide when to start the experiment on each node.
• download_logs.sh -- shell script to download experiment logs from PlanetLab nodes.