Overview

SPHERE is research infrastructure that runs on Merge testbed platform. Merge is testbed platform that’s composed of a centralized portal that acts as an experimentation hub for a distributed system of testbed facilities. Once a portal has been deployed and at least one testbed facility has commissioned resources, everything needed for users to start creating experiments is ready. As more facilities are added, more resource become available but the overall experiment development process for users does not change. You can learn more about Merge concepts here.

SPHERE will have three testbed facilities – at USC/ISI, at USC colocation space and at Northeastern University. SPHERE will host heterogeneous resources that are relevant for cybersecurity and privacy experimentation, such as:

• server-class compute nodes for virtual machine allocation
• server-class compute nodes with GPUs for machine learning
• embedded CPUs for large-scale embedded systems experimentation
• programmable NICs
• PLCs and CPS simulation software for digital twinning
• remotely-controlled home IoT devices

Figure below illustrates our vision for SPHERE architecture:

You can learn more about Merge concepts here.

SPHERE will have three testbed facilities – at USC/ISI, at USC colocation space and at Northeastern University. SPHERE will host heterogeneous resources that are relevant for cybersecurity and privacy experimentation, such as:

• server-class compute nodes for virtual machine allocation
• server-class compute nodes with GPUs for machine learning
• embedded CPUs for large-scale embedded systems experimentation
• programmable NICs
• PLCs and CPS simulation software for digital twinning
• remotely-controlled home IoT devices

Figure below illustrates our vision for SPHERE architecture:

You can learn more about Merge concepts here.

SPHERE will have three testbed facilities – at USC/ISI, at USC colocation space and at Northeastern University. SPHERE will host heterogeneous resources that are relevant for cybersecurity and privacy experimentation, such as:

• server-class compute nodes for virtual machine allocation
• server-class compute nodes with GPUs for machine learning
• embedded CPUs for large-scale embedded systems experimentation
• programmable NICs
• PLCs and CPS simulation software for digital twinning
• remotely-controlled home IoT devices

Figure below illustrates our vision for SPHERE architecture:

You can learn more about Merge concepts here.

SPHERE will have three testbed facilities – at USC/ISI, at USC colocation space and at Northeastern University. SPHERE will host heterogeneous resources that are relevant for cybersecurity and privacy experimentation, such as:

• server-class compute nodes for virtual machine allocation
• server-class compute nodes with GPUs for machine learning
• embedded CPUs for large-scale embedded systems experimentation
• programmable NICs
• PLCs and CPS simulation software for digital twinning
• remotely-controlled home IoT devices

Figure below illustrates our vision for SPHERE architecture: