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WAIL (Wisconsin Advanced Internet Laboratory)

WAIL is a one-of-a-kind facility for conducting network and distributed systems research. The vision is to be able to recreate instances of the Internet from end-to-end-through-core in a laboratory environment. What sets WAIL apart from other network test beds is that real IP networking hardware is used to create the network configurations used in tests.

UW PKI Lab

The Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) Lab at UW-Madison helps to develop and deploy technology to make the Internet more secure, more reliable, and easier to use. A PKI ties together information in digital certificates, databases, and directories, enabling reliable authentication and authorization across organizational boundaries. Widely deployed PKI-enabled middleware is essential for the Internet to become more secure and effective. PKI offers great promise for addressing issues in privacy, data confidentiality, data integrity and reliable digital signatures. AT&T is providing $100,000 to help set up labs at UW and Dartmouth. The Internet2 PKI Labs will develop technology that is more scalable, open, secure and private. With it, enterprises can better secure access to information and services over the Internet. Close collaboration with Internet2 corporate partners will help promote rapid deployment in the global Internet.

The Condor Project

The Condor Project is working to develop, implement, deploy, and evaluate mechanisms and policies that support High Throughput Computing (HTC) on large collections of distributively owned computing resources. The Condor Team has been building software tools that enable scientists and engineers to increase their computing throughput. Condor is a specialized workload management system for compute-intensive jobs. Like other full-featured batch systems, Condor provides a job queueing mechanism, scheduling policy, priority scheme, resource monitoring, and resource management. Users submit their serial or parallel jobs to Condor, Condor places them into a queue, chooses when and where to run the jobs based upon a policy, carefully monitors their progress, and ultimately informs the user upon completion.

This Condor installation has served as a major source of computing cycles to UW-Madison faculty and students. In the Computer Sciences Department, Condor manages more than 1000 workstations. According to usage statistics on a typical day, Condor delivers more than 650 CPU days to UW researchers. Additional Condor installations have been established over the years across our campus and the world. Hundreds of organizations in industry, government, and academia have used Condor to establish compute installations ranging in size from a handful to well over one thousand workstations.