NSFCloud Workshop: Experimental Support for Cloud Computing

NSFCloud 研讨会：云计算的实验支持

• 批准号: 1455829
• 负责人: Katarzyna Keahey
• 金额: $ 6.88万
• 依托单位: University of Chicago
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-09-01 至 2018-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1455829&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NSFCloud; Workshop; Experimental; Support; Cloud

The NSFCloud solicitation was established in 2013 as a track within the NSF CISE Research Infrastructure (CRI) program with the objective to provide an experimental platform enabling the academic research community to drive research on a new generation of innovative applications of cloud computing and cloud computing architectures. While this effort seeks to build on prior NSF investments, such as the GENI and FutureGrid testbeds, it is unique in that it targets specifically the field of cloud computing and seeks to support and integrate research in this area with innovate solutions in systems, networking, and cyber-physical system (CPS) research and thereby define a broad research agenda of the future. NSF is making NSFCloud awards, and as these projects begin, it is critical that a dialogue be initiated between the research community and the experimental platform providers, detailing the expectations on one side and capabilities on the other. To initiate such dialogue, this project provides support for a workshop whose principal objectives are to (1) provide early information to the CISE research community about the approach to providing an experimental platform taken by the funded NSFCloud projects; and (2) provide a forum for a discussion of the experimental requirements of the CISE community and thus provide an opportunity for community feedback and refinement of those plans. As an extension of these objectives, the workshop provides a lasting opening of the communication channels between the testbed providers and the research community they will serve, and explores collaborations and synergies that will make this relationship efficient and fulfilling. This workshop solicits participation from the CISE research community that will rely on the NSFCloud projects for the support of their experimental needs as well as the NSFCloud teams themselves. The organizers engage minority serving institution (MSI) participants from both groups. The participation by the community helps ensure that the testbeds, when delivered to the community, will have the relevant capabilities, that the intended research projects are targeted, and that the facilities are accessible to MSI communities. The results of the workshop guide the experimental platform development and community outreach related to the NSFCloud proposal.

NSFCloud 征集成立于 2013 年，作为 NSF CISE 研究基础设施 (CRI) 计划的一个轨道，旨在提供一个实验平台，使学术研究界能够推动新一代云计算创新应用和云计算架构的研究。虽然这项工作旨在建立在 NSF 先前投资的基础上，例如 GENI 和 FutureGrid 测试平台，但其独特之处在于它专门针对云计算领域，并寻求支持该领域的研究并将其与系统、网络、和网络物理系统（CPS）研究，从而定义了未来广泛的研究议程。 NSF 正在颁发 NSFCloud 奖项，随着这些项目的开始，研究社区和实验平台提供商之间启动对话至关重要，一方面详细说明期望，另一方面详细说明能力。为了启动此类对话，该项目为研讨会提供支持，其主要目标是 (1) 向 CISE 研究界提供有关 NSFCloud 资助项目所采用的实验平台方法的早期信息； (2) 提供一个讨论 CISE 社区实验要求的论坛，从而为社区反馈和完善这些计划提供机会。作为这些目标的延伸，研讨会为测试平台提供商和他们将服务的研究社区之间的沟通渠道提供了持久的开放，并探索了合作和协同效应，使这种关系变得高效和充实。本研讨会邀请 CISE 研究社区以及 NSFCloud 团队本身参与，这些社区将依靠 NSFCloud 项目来支持其实验需求。组织者聘请了来自这两个群体的少数族裔服务机构 (MSI) 参与者。社区的参与有助于确保测试平台在交付给社区时具备相关功能、预期研究项目具有针对性，以及 MSI 社区可以使用这些设施。研讨会的结果指导了与 NSFCloud 提案相关的实验平台开发和社区推广。