This website is no longer actively maintained and is kept online as a historic reference only.

The platform has evolved into PlanetLab V3, now available at planetlab.io.

If you are a new user or looking for active services, please head there to register and get started.

Existing documentation and resources on this site remain available for archival purposes, but no new accounts or experiments will be supported here.

You may have read Larry Peterson's recent announcement that PlanetLab in the United States is shutting down at the end of May 2020. PlanetLab Europe remains open for business, and continues to grow, signing up new sites monthly.

If you are user of planet-lab.org, we welcome you to planet-lab.eu!

PlanetLab Europe is the European portion of the publicly available PlanetLab testbed, a global facility for the deployment of new network services.

Since 2008, hundreds researchers at top academic institutions and industrial research labs have tested their experimental technologies on PlanetLab Europe, including: distributed storage, network mapping, peer-to-peer systems, distributed hash tables, and query processing.

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PlanetLab Europe nodes

PlanetLab Central nodes

Click on the icons for details of sites and resources offered.