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One of the precursors of the GENI project is Emulab, a testbed effort that has been ongoing at the University of Utah since 1999. Emulab is both the name of a testbed control system, and the name of a particular facility built using that system. The Emulab facility is housed at the University of Utah, but is available to researchers worldwide—thousands of users have run hundreds of thousands of experiments over the lifetime of the testbed. The Emulab software is open-source, and has been used to bring up dozens of experimental facilities at institutions around the world. Some of these, like the Utah facility, are open to the public for the purposes of research and educations; others are run by individual institutions for their own use, which may include product R&D, classified work, etc.

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    The Emulab project was founded by Jay Lepreau, who led it from 1999 until his death due to cancer in 2008. As of 2016, the Emulab team includes: Keith Downie, Jonathon Duerig, Dmitry Duplyakin, Eric Eide, David Johnson, Mike Hibler, Dan Reading, Leigh Stoller, Kirk Webb, and Gary Wong. Over the last 16 years, dozens of people have worked on Emulab, including Christopher Alfeld, David G Andersen, David Anderson, Kevin Atkinson, Grant Ayers, Chad Barb, Srikanth Chikkulapelly, Steve Clawson, Austin Clements, Cody Cutler, Russ Fish, Daniel Montrallo Flickinger, Daniel Gebhardt, Shashi Guruprasad, Fabien Hermenier, Ryan Jackson, Abhijeet Joglekar, Xing Lin, Nikhil Mishrikoti, Ian Murdock, Yathindra Naik, Mac Newbold, Tarun Prabhu, Raghuveer Pullakandam, Prashanth Radhakrishnan, Srikanth Raju, Pramod Sanaga, Timothy Stack, Matt Strum, Weibin Sun, Kevin Tew, Brian White, and Kristin Wright.

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Ricci, R., Team, t.E. (2016). Precursors: Emulab. In: McGeer, R., Berman, M., Elliott, C., Ricci, R. (eds) The GENI Book. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-33769-2_2

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