Banner
PlanetLab Europe (PLE)
A world-wide platform for Internet developers

ple





PlanetLab Europe is a  network of open computers distributed across the world and available for the development of new network services.

Already used by over 500 experimenters, it is designed to be the most realistic platform available for trial deployment and experimentation, with services such as distributed storage, network mapping, peer-to-peer systems, distributed hash tables and query processing.

ple_map
Figure: Map showing PlanetLab nodes in Europe. Click on the image to see an interactive map on the PlanetLab Europe website
Hundreds of Linux systems physically distributed across the world are remotely accessible on the public Internet and available to host applications for testing in a real-life environment.

Once you become a member of PlanetLab Europe, you can provision private virtual servers on any of over 1000 PlanetLab nodes. These virtual servers can be used to deploy live Internet services that are exposed to the same issues that arise in genuine production environments: variable bandwidth, diverse latencies, realistic robustness and failure modes. PlanetLab Europe is the European arm of the global PlanetLab testbed.

PlanetLab tutorial:

  • Part 1: PlanetLab Basics pdf_button
  • Part 2: Getting started with PlanetLab pdf_button
  • Part 3: PlanetLab Technical Overview pdf_button
PlanetLab Europe datasheets and flyer now available.

For further details please contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or see the PlanetLab Europe website.

Alternatively, click here to register with PLE.