Request an Account A time- and space-shared platform for research, education, and development in distributed systems and networks. Emulab's primary goals are ease of use, control, and realism, achieved through consistent use of virtualization and abstraction.
Emulab is a network testbed, giving researchers a wide range of
environments in which to develop, debug, and evaluate their systems.
The name Emulab refers both to a facility and to a
software system.
The primary Emulab installation is run
by the
Flux Group, part of the
School of Computing at the
University of Utah.
There are also installations of the Emulab software at more than
two
dozen sites around the world, ranging from testbeds with a handful
of nodes up to testbeds with hundreds of nodes.
Emulab is widely used
by computer science researchers in the fields of networking and
distributed systems.
It is also designed to support
education, and has been used to
teach
classes in those fields.