What's StarBED5
History of StarBED Project

1st Project: StarBED1

date News & Events
Apr. 20, 2002 The Telecommunications Advancement Organization of Japan (TAO) opened the Hokuriku IT Open Laboratory.
Apr. 20, 2002 Start of the construction and of the operation of StarBED as a large-scale, general-use internet simulator connecting 512 PC servers (Group A-E) by network switches and maintaining the plant and equipment.

2nd Project: StarBED2

date News & Events
Apr. 1, 2006 "Group F" PC servers were added.
Jun. 17, 2006 Opening of the Hokuriku Research Center.
Commenced research and development of next-generation ubiquitous network simulation technology as the NICT’s onsite research and development facility.
Apr. 1, 2007 "Group G" PC servers were added.
Oct. 1, 2007 "Hokuriku Research Center Workshop (Number One/1st)" held Events
  -- StarBED Technical Workshop 2007 --
Oct. 24, 2008 "Hokuriku Research Center Workshop (Number Two/2nd)" held Events
  -- StarBED Technical Workshop 2008 --
Apr. 1, 2009 "Group H" PC servers were added.
This system can perform comprehensive experiments and verifications for hundreds to a million node level.
Jun. 11, 2009 World-leading large-scale testbed StarBED participates in the "Interop Tokyo 2009" Cloud Computing Competition Events
Dec. 8, 2009 "Hokuriku Research Center Workshop (Number Three/3rd)" held Events
  -- StarBED Technical Workshop 2009 --
Mar. 30, 2010 "International Symposium on ICT System Testbeds" jointly held with JAIST Events
- International Symposium on ICT System Testbeds -
Jun. 9, 2010 We are bringing StarBED, the world-leading, world's largest emulation platform, to the "Interop Tokyo 2010" Cloud Computing Competition Events
Dec. 31, 2010 Completion of 2nd Project "StarBED2"
Jan. 27, 2011 "ICT Testbed Strategy 2011 – JGN2plus StarBED Joint Symposium" held Events
Mar. 31, 2011 Hokuriku Research Center closed due to organizational changes

3rd Project: StarBED3 (StarBED Cubic)

date News & Events
Apr. 1, 2011 Opening of the Hokuriku StarBED Technology Center as the research institution for the NICT' Network Testbed Research and Development Promotion Center.
Commenced, as a large-scale emulation testbed, research and development, set targets for dealing with and R&D life cycle support for the new-generation ICT system, and continued planning mutual coordination with JGN-X.
Apr. 1, 2011 "Group A" - "Group E" PC servers were ended of service.
"Group I" - "Group L" PC servers of high specification were newly added.
Jun. 9, 2011 World-leading large-scale testbed StarBED provided to the "Interop Tokyo 2011" Cloud Computing Competition Events
Oct. 13, 2011 "New Generation ICT Testbed Symposium 2011" held Events
Apr. 21, 2012 Provided virtual EC environment within StarBED for "Hardening Zero" Events
Oct. 4, 2012 Provided virtual EC environment within StarBED for "Hardening Zero"Events
July 4, 2013 Provided virtual EC environment within StarBED for "Hardening Zero" Events
Apr. 1, 2014 "Group N" PC servers were added.
June 21, 2014 Provided a virtual EC environment on StarBED for "Hardening 10 APAC" Events
Oct. 1, 2014 "Group O" PC servers were added.

4th Project: StarBED4 (StarBED Force)

date News & Events
Apr. 1, 2016 Commenced StarBED4 project to apply our research achievements of the 3rd-term project of StarBED3 to public.
Thus all things around humans and human themselves are connected to the network in the IoT generation, we started R&D activities to develop evaluation infrastructure for the generation which enables to introduce these entities and physical phenomena such as human behavior, cellar phones, sensors, and temperature and electromagnetic fields that connect these elements.
Apr. 1, 2016 "Group F" - "Group G" PC servers were ended of service.
June 6, 2016 Provided a virtual EC environment on StarBED for "Hardening 100 Value x Value" Events
Nov. 2, 2016 Provided a virtual EC environment on StarBED for "Hardening 100 Weakest Link" Events
Apr. 1, 2017 "Group M" PC servers were ended of service.
June 24, 2017 Provided a virtual EC environment on StarBED for "Hardening 1010 Cash Flow" Events
Nov. 23, 2017 Provided a virtual EC environment on StarBED for "Hardening 2017 Fes" Events
Apr. 1, 2018 "Group O" PC servers ended of service.
"Group P" PC servers were added.
July 7, 2018 Provided a virtual EC environment on StarBED for "Hardening II Collective" Events
Nov. 22, 2018 Provided a virtual EC environment on StarBED for "Hardening II SecurEach" Events
Feb. 24, 2019 Provided the environment of doing Hackathon on StarBED for "NICT SpaceHack 2019" Events
Apr. 1, 2019 "Group H" - "Group J " PC servers ended of service.
May. 25, 2019 Provided a practice environment on StarBED for “enPiT-Pro Security” project
July 5, 2019 Provided a virtual EC environment on StarBED for "Hardening II SU" Events
Oct. 2, 2019 Provided a practice environment on StarBED for “enPiT-Pro Security” project
Jan. 25, 2020 Provided a virtual EC environment on StarBED for "Hardening 2020 Business Objectives" Events
Apr. 1, 2020 "Group K" - "Group L" PC servers ended of service.
May. 24, 2020 Provided a practice environment on StarBED for “enPiT-Pro Security” project
Oct. 10, 2020 Provided a practice environment on StarBED for “enPiT-Pro Security” project
Nov. 14, 2020 Provided a virtual EC environment on StarBED for "Hardening 2020 H3DX" Events

5th Project: StarBED5 (StarBED Fifth)

date News & Events
Apr. 1, 2021 The 5th project has started.
We aim to build a CyReal environment. In the CyReal environment, it is possible to seamlessly connect the parts configured by the simulation environment, emulation environment, and real environment, and change the abstraction level of each part. This environment can be consistently supported from theoretical evaluation to actual operation.
Jun. 26, 2021 Provided a practice environment on StarBED for “enPiT-Pro Security” project
July. 1, 2021 "Group N" PC servers ended of service.
Oct. 16, 2021 Provided a practice environment on StarBED for “enPiT-Pro Security” project
Nov. 19, 2021 Provided a virtual EC environment on StarBED for "Hardening 2021 Active Fault"
Apr. 16, 2022 Provided a practice environment on StarBED for “enPiT-Pro Security” project
Oct. 29, 2022 Provided a practice environment on StarBED for “enPiT-Pro Security” project
Nov. 15, 2022 Provided a virtual EC environment on StarBED for "Hardening 2022 DECADE"
Apr. 1, 2023 "Group P" PC servers ended of service.
"Group W" and "Group X" PC servers were added.
Apr. 29, 2023 Provided a practice environment on StarBED for “enPiT-Pro Security” project
Oct. 5, 2023 Provided a virtual EC environment on StarBED for "Hardening 2023 Generatives"
Oct. 28, 2023 Provided a practice environment on StarBED for “enPiT-Pro Security” project
Apr. 27, 2024 Provided a practice environment on StarBED for “enPiT-Pro Security” project
Oct. 16, 2024 Provided a virtual EC environment on StarBED for "Hardening 2024 Convolutions"
Oct. 19, 2024 Provided a practice environment on StarBED for “enPiT-Pro Security” project