CCRI: Grand: Developing a Testbed for the Research Community Exploring Next-Generation Cloud Platforms

CCRI：盛大：为研究界探索下一代云平台开发测试平台

• 批准号: 1925504
• 负责人: Orran Krieger
• 金额: $ 205万
• 依托单位: Trustees of Boston University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-10-01 至 2024-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1925504&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CCRI; Grand; Developing; Testbed; Research

Cloud computing plays an important role in supporting most software we use in our daily lives. This project will construct and support a testbed for research and experimentation into new cloud platforms - the underlying software which provides cloud services to applications. Testbeds such as this are critical for enabling research into new cloud technologies - research that requires experiments which potentially change the operation of the cloud itself. The new testbed will combine proven software technologies with a real production cloud enhanced with programmable hardware - Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) - capabilities not present in other facilities available to researchers today. The combination of a testbed and production cloud allows a) larger scale compared to isolated testbeds, b) reproducible experimentation based on realistic user behavior and applications, as well as c) a model for transitioning successful research results to practice. The programmable hardware will be a unique resource enabling investigation into hardware acceleration techniques, and the community outreach portion of the project aims to identify, attract, and retain interested researchers, and to educate them in the use of the facility. The testbed offers a unique sustainability model, by allowing additional compute resources to be dynamically moved from institutional uses into the testbed and back again, providing a path to growth beyond the initial testbed.This testbed will accelerate innovation in cloud technologies; technologies affecting almost all of computing today. In providing capabilities that today are only available to researchers within a few large commercial cloud providers, it will allow diverse communities to exploit these technologies, "democratizing" cloud computing research, and allowing increased collaboration between the research and open source communities. The community outreach activities of the project are targeted to researchers who explore complex distributed systems and cloud platforms, spanning a diverse range of backgrounds, institutions, and regions. Software tools will be developed to provide easy and efficient access by these researchers; tutorials, workshops, and webinars will offer training in the use of these tools and the testbed itself. The project will support educating the next generation of researchers in this field, and existing relationships with industrial partners of the affiliated production cloud will accelerate technology transfer from academic research to practical use.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.

云计算在支持我们在日常生活中使用的大多数软件中起着重要作用。该项目将在新的云平台中构建并支持用于研究和实验的测试台，该云平台是为应用程序提供云服务的基础软件。诸如此类的测试床对于促进对新的云技术的研究至关重要 - 需要进行实验，以改变云本身的运行。新的测试床将将验证的软件技术与可编程硬件 - 现场可编程栅极阵列（FPGA）相结合的真实生产云 - 当今其他研究人员可用的其他设施中不存在的功能。与孤立的测试床相比，测试床和生产云的组合允许a）更大的规模，b）基于现实的用户行为和应用的可重现实验，以及c）用于将成功的研究结果转换为实践的模型。可编程的硬件将是一个独特的资源，可以调查硬件加速技术，并且该项目的社区外展部分旨在识别，吸引和保留感兴趣的研究人员，并在使用该设施方面进行教育。测试床提供了独特的可持续性模型，通过允许其他计算资源从机构用途动态转移到测试床上，然后又回到了测试床上，从而提供了超出初始测试床的增长途径。该测试台将在云技术中加速创新。影响当今几乎所有计算的技术。为了提供当今仅在一些大型商业云提供商中的研究人员提供的功能时，它将允许各种社区利用这些技术，“使”云计算研究“民主化”，并允许研究与开源社区之间的合作增加。该项目的社区外展活动针对的是探索复杂分布式系统和云平台的研究人员，涵盖了各种背景，机构和地区。将开发软件工具，以提供这些研究人员的简单有效访问；教程，研讨会和网络研讨会将提供这些工具和测试台本身的使用培训。该项目将支持教育该领域的下一代研究人员，现有与附属生产云的工业伙伴的关系将加速从学术研究到实际使用的技术转移。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛影响的审查标准来通过评估来支持的。

项目成果

OCT: The Open Cloud FPGA Testbed

OCT：开放云 FPGA 测试床

• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: 31st International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL
• 作者: Handagala, S;Herbordt, M.;Leeser, M.
• 通讯作者: Leeser, M.

O3BNN-R: An Out-of-Order Architecture for High-Performance and Regularized BNN Inference

• DOI: 10.1109/tpds.2020.3013637
• 发表时间: 2021-01
• 期刊: IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
• 影响因子: 5.3
• 作者: Tong Geng;Ang Li;Tianqi Wang;Chunshu Wu;Yanfei Li;Runbin Shi;Wei Wu;M. Herbordt

FP-AMG: FPGA-Based Acceleration Framework for Algebraic Multigrid Solvers

FP-AMG：基于 FPGA 的代数多重网格求解器加速框架

• DOI: 10.1109/fccm48280.2020.00028
• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: 28th IEEE International Symposium on Field-Programmable Custom Computing Machines
• 作者: Haghi, Pouya;Geng, Tong;Guo, Anqi;Wang, Tianqi;Herbordt, Martin
• 通讯作者: Herbordt, Martin