Raid laboratory at Purdue has a software environment for conducting scientific research in a variety of subjects: communication experiments for distributed applications, network communication measurement experiments, experimental analysis of communication infrastructure, adaptability experiments for distributed systems, replication and recovery experiments for distributed database systems, concurrent check-pointing and rollback-recovery algorithms, concurrency control for distributed database systems, efficient implementation techniques for distributed systems, digital library, and mobile communication. The laboratory has a network of Sun workstations running the Raid distributed system and Unix operating system. In addition several systems such as Raid, mini-Raid and a variety of communication libraries are available.
For more information see Raid Lab