I-Corps: Networked Federated Infrastructure-as-a-Service

I-Corps：网络联合基础设施即服务

• 批准号: 1643582
• 负责人: Ilya Baldin
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-08-01 至 2017-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1643582&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Corps; Networked; Federated; Infrastructure; Service

The broader impact/commercial potential of this I-Corps project lies in introducing a novel disruptive idea into the market of IT cloud services - the idea that clouds can be created bottom up instead of top-down. The approach democratizes the market for cloud infrastructure services by allowing many small and medium providers to create federations of clouds that can rival the size of current monolithic vertically integrated public cloud offerings available from large corporations in this space. Considering the extent to which modern life depends on cloud services today, this idea can have a profoundly disruptive influence on the existing cloud marketplace, the evolution of the associated enabling technologies and how we interact with the day-to-day technologies surrounding us. If successful, this project will help create novel solutions that enable new types of businesses and services dependent on the dynamic, deeply interconnected cloud infrastructure seamlessly linking together people, environmental, health and other monitoring devices, scientific instruments, industrial equipment, data storage and processing facilities.This I-Corps project explores the commercial potential of a distributed architecture of software control agents implementing the cloud resource management algorithms. This is the extensible resource description language used to describe cloud infrastructures belonging to different organizations and the management algorithms reasoning over those descriptions in order to instantiate dynamic software-defined infrastructures for individual users based on their needs. The end result of this research is a functioning prototype system which today manages the testbed in support of distributed systems and networking research. This approach to cloud resource management is distributed and federated in nature and highly extensible by being able to easily incorporate and support new cloud providers and new cloud resources. It is markedly different from the existing commercial and open-source cloud solutions which are centralized, siloed and only able to work with like technologies.

该I-Corps项目的更广泛的影响/商业潜力在于将一种新颖的破坏性想法引入IT云服务市场 - 可以自下而上创建云而不是自上而下的想法。该方法通过允许许多中小型提供商创建云的联合会来使云基础设施服务的市场民主化，从而可以与该领域的大型公司提供的当前单层垂直整合的公共云产品相媲美。考虑到现代生活在多大程度上依赖于当今的云服务，这一想法可能会对现有的云市场，相关的启用技术的演变以及我们如何与我们周围的日常技术互动，对现有的云市场产生严重破坏性的影响。如果成功，该项目将有助于创建新型的解决方案，以使新型的企业和服务取决于动态的，深厚的互联云基础架构无缝连接，将人员，环境，健康和其他监控设备，科学工具，工业设备，数据存储，数据存储和处理设施连接在一起。这些I-Corps这些I-Corps项目探索了软件控制者的商业构建构建者的潜力。 这是用于描述属于不同组织的云基础架构的可扩展资源描述语言，以及对这些描述的管理算法推理，以根据其需求对单个用户实例化动态软件定义的基础架构。这项研究的最终结果是一个运转良好的原型系统，今天管理测试台以支持分布式系统和网络研究。这种云资源管理方法的分布和联合在本质上，并且能够轻松地合并和支持新的云提供商和新的云资源，从而高度扩展。它与现有的商业和开源云解决方案明显不同，这些解决方案是集中式，孤立的，只能与技术合作。