CloudLab: Flexible Scientific Infrastructure to Support Fundamental Advances in Cloud Architectures and Applications

CloudLab：灵活的科学基础设施支持云架构和应用程序的根本性进步

• 批准号: 1419199
• 负责人: Robert Ricci
• 金额: $ 1000万
• 依托单位: University of Utah
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-10-01 至 2019-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1419199&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CloudLab; Flexible; Scientific; Infrastructure; Support

Many of the ideas that drive modern cloud computing, such as server virtualization, network slicing, and robust distributed storage, arose from the research community. But because today's clouds have particular, non-malleable implementations of these ideas "baked in," they are unsuitable as facilities in which to conduct research on future cloud architectures. This project creates CloudLab, a facility that will enable fundamental advances in cloud architecture. CloudLab will not be a cloud; CloudLab will be large-scale, distributed scientific infrastructure on top of which many different clouds can be built. It will support thousands of researchers and run hundreds of different, experimental clouds simultaneously. The Phase I CloudLab deployment will provide data centers at Clemson (with Dell equipment), Utah (HP), and Wisconsin (Cisco), with each industrial partner collaborating to explore next-generation ideas for cloud architecturesCloudLab will be a place where researchers can try out ideas using any cloud software stack they can imagine. It will accomplish this by running at a layer below cloud infrastructure: it will provide isolated, bare-metal access to a set of resources that researchers can use to bring up their own clouds. These clouds may run instances of today's popular stacks, modest modifications to them, or something entirely new. CloudLab will not be tied to any particular particular cloud stack, and will support experimentation on multiple in parallel. The impact of cloud computing outside the field of computer science has been substantial: it has enabled a new generation of applications and services with direct impacts on society at large. CloudLab is positioned to have an immediate and substantial impact on the research community by providing access to the resources it needs to shape the future of clouds. Cloud architecture research, enabled by CloudLab, will empower a new generation of applications and services which will bring direct benefit to the public in areas of national priority such as medicine, smart grids, and natural disaster early warning and response.

许多驱动现代云计算的想法，例如服务器虚拟化，网络切片和强大的分布式存储，都来自研究界。但是，由于今天的云具有对这些想法的特殊，不可宽恕的实现，因此它们不适合对未来云体系结构进行研究的设施。该项目创建了CloudLab，该设施将在云体系结构中实现基本进步。 CloudLab不会是云； CloudLab将是大规模分布的科学基础架构，上面可以建造许多不同的云。它将支持数千名研究人员，并同时运行数百种不同的实验云。 I阶段CloudLab部署将在Clemson（带有Dell Equipment），犹他州（HP）和威斯康星州（Cisco）的数据中心提供数据中心，每个工业合作伙伴都在合作，探索云架构Cloudlab的下一代想法，将是一个可以通过任何可以想象的云软件堆栈来尝试的研究人员。它将通过在云基础架构以下的一层运行来实现这一目标：它将提供对一组资源的孤立，裸机的访问，研究人员可以使用这些资源来提出自己的云。这些云可能会运行当今流行的堆栈，适度的修改或全新的事件。 CloudLab不会与任何特定的特定云堆栈息息相关，并且会在多个并行上支持实验。 计算机科学领域之外的云计算的影响是很大的：它使新一代的应用程序和服务对整个社会产生了直接影响。 CloudLab可以通过提供对塑造云的未来所需的资源的访问来对研究社区产生直接和实质性的影响。 CloudLab支持的云建筑研究将赋予新一代的应用程序和服务能力，这些应用程序和服务将在医学，智能电网和自然灾害预警和反应等国家优先领域为公众带来直接利益。