MRI: Development of Apt, A Testbed Instrument with Adaptable Profiles for Network and Computational Science

MRI：Apt 的开发，一种具有适用于网络和计算科学的适应性配置文件的测试台仪器

• 批准号: 1338155
• 负责人: Robert Ricci
• 金额: $ 240万
• 依托单位: University of Utah
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-10-01 至 2017-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1338155&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: MRI; Development; Apt; Testbed; Instrument

Proposal #: 1338155PI(s): Ricci, Robert; Corbato, Steven C; Eide, Eric N; Facelli, Julio C; Van Der Merwe, JacobusInstitution: University of Utah Title: MRI/Dev: Apt, a Testbed Instrument with Adaptable Profiles for Network and Computational ScienceProject Proposed:This project, developing a novel adaptable instrument (Apt), aims at attaining a novel control framework to manage a cluster of compute nodes, storage servers, and a flexible interconnect fabric. Adaptability constitutes the key feature enabling the creation of diverse instruments for computer science research. The work is geared towards representing a new generation of testbed instruments that engage a broader community of users by empowering them to customize it to their needs. The instrument is expected to leverage and drive the trends in cloud computing, thus making the development of adaptable instrument environments easier, cheaper, and less risky. At the same time, it offers properties not available on commercial clouds, including the proposed levels of resource fidelity and transparency required of a scientific instrument. The project also develops the control and management system for creating and using profiles, and for supporting concurrent experiments and allocating resources among them in a dynamic manner. The fundamental building blocks of Apt identified include: - Resource provisioning, scheduling, and conditioning; - Operational state tracking; experiment management, archive, and replay; and - User management. This work contributes to make these elements reusable in a way that enables the proposed to be shared by profiles supporting a wide range of research domains. The domains currently targeted include, but are not limited to, sustainable energy control systems, biomolecular science, privacy and security, and data-intensive computation.Broader Impacts: The instrument is expected to be a national resource for computer science and other computing-based fields, Internet-accessible and to contribute to the nation?s cyberinfrastructure. The broad and diverse targeted research communities include strong empirical and experimental components. The proposed instrument is highly suitable for training and education.

提案编号：1338155PI（s）：Ricci，Robert；科尔巴托，史蒂文·C；艾德，埃里克·N；胡里奥·C·法塞利； Van Der Merwe，Jacobus 机构：犹他大学 标题：MRI/Dev：Apt，一种具有适用于网络和计算科学的适应性配置文件的测试台仪器 项目建议：该项目开发一种新颖的适应性仪器 (Apt)，旨在获得一种新颖的控制框架管理计算节点、存储服务器和灵活的互连结构的集群。适应性是为计算机科学研究创建多样化仪器的关键特征。这项工作旨在代表新一代的测试台仪器，通过使用户能够根据自己的需求进行定制，吸引更广泛的用户社区。该仪器预计将利用并推动云计算的趋势，从而使适应性仪器环境的开发变得更容易、更便宜且风险更低。同时，它提供了商业云上不具备的特性，包括科学仪器所需的资源保真度和透明度的建议水平。该项目还开发了用于创建和使用配置文件、支持并发实验并以动态方式在它们之间分配资源的控制和管理系统。 Apt 确定的基本构建模块包括： - 资源配置、调度和调节； - 运行状态跟踪；实验管理、存档和回放；以及 - 用户管理。这项工作有助于使这些元素可重用，使提议能够由支持广泛研究领域的配置文件共享。目前的目标领域包括但不限于可持续能源控制系统、生物分子科学、隐私和安全以及数据密集型计算。更广泛的影响：该仪器预计将成为计算机科学和其他基于计算的国家资源领域，可通过互联网访问并为国家的网络基础设施做出贡献。广泛而多样化的目标研究群体包括强大的实证和实验成分。所提出的仪器非常适合培训和教育。