NSF Workshop on the Economics of Cloud Computing

NSF 云计算经济学研讨会

• 批准号: 1821682
• 负责人: David Irwin
• 金额: $ 9.06万
• 依托单位: University of Massachusetts Amherst
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-05-01 至 2019-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1821682&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NSF; Workshop; Economics; Cloud; Computing

Public cloud computing is rapidly becoming the foundation of our information-based economy. Users areadopting cloud platforms in lieu of maintaining dedicated computing infrastructure primarily due to theresulting savings in costs. Since cloud platforms earn revenue from utilizing their infrastructure byrenting it out to customers, and earn no revenue if their infrastructure is idle, their goal is to maximizeutilization. The increasing complexity of cloud markets raises new researchchallenges for both users and providers that are inherently economic. This award will support theorganization of a workshop to bring together researchers from computer systems and networks and fromthe fields of economics, finance, and operations research to define important research challenges at theintersection of economics and cloud computing over the next 5-10 years.The research agenda of the workshop has the potential for broad and transformative impact on the US andbeyond by fostering a new interdisciplinary community in this nascent area, identifying its key researchchallenges, and laying the foundation for future innovations that increase the efficiency of using cloudcomputing resources. Furthermore, the workshop will engage early career scholars and those fromdiverse backgrounds and underrepresented groups to connect them with a broad community of academicand industrial researchers interested in the intersection of economics and computer systems andnetworking.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

公共云计算正在迅速成为我们信息化经济的基础。用户采用云平台来代替维护专用计算基础设施，主要是因为这样可以节省成本。由于云平台通过将其基础设施出租给客户来赚取收入，而如果基础设施闲置则不会获得任何收入，因此他们的目标是最大化利用率。云市场日益复杂，给用户和提供商带来了新的研究挑战，这些挑战本质上是经济性的。该奖项将支持组织一个研讨会，将来自计算机系统和网络以及经济、金融和运筹学领域的研究人员聚集在一起，以确定未来 5-10 年经济学和云计算交叉领域的重要研究挑战。研讨会的议程有可能对美国及其他地区产生广泛和变革性的影响，方法是在这个新兴领域培育一个新的跨学科社区，确定其关键研究挑战，并为未来提高效率的创新奠定基础。使用云计算资源。此外，该研讨会将吸引早期职业学者以及来自不同背景和代表性不足群体的学者，将他们与对经济学、计算机系统和网络交叉感兴趣的学术和工业研究人员的广泛社区联系起来。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并被认为是值得的通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来提供支持。