Ripcord: a modular platform for data center networking

  • Authors:

  • Brandon Heller;David Erickson;Nick McKeown;Rean Griffith;Igor Ganichev;Scott Whyte;Kyriakos Zarifis;Daekyeong Moon;Scott Shenker;Stephen Stuart

  • Affiliations:

  • Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA;Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA;Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA;University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA;University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA;Google, Mountain View, CA, USA;International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley, CA, USA;Nicira Networks, Palo Alto, CA, USA;University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA;Google, Mountain View, CA, USA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2010 conference
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

In this demo, we present Ripcord, a modular platform for rapidly prototyping scale-out data center networks. Ripcord enables researchers to build and evaluate new network features and topologies, using only commercially available hardware and open-source software. The Ripcord demo will show three examples of custom network functions, operating together, on top of a 160-node cluster. The first is a routing engine that isolates classes of traffic. The second is a dynamic network manager than adjusts links and switch power states to reduce energy. The third is a statistics aggregator that supports network health monitoring and automatic alerts. The demo will be interactive, with a visualization of live parameters for each link and switch, such as bandwidth, drops, and power status, as well a control panel to modify the traffic load. We feel that an interactive demo is the best way to introduce the research community to Ripcord and get their feedback.