CCRI: Planning-C: TopoCloud: A New Community Testbed With Unique Network Topology Flexibility

CCRI：Planning-C：TopoCloud：具有独特网络拓扑灵活性的新社区测试平台

• 批准号: 2213823
• 负责人: Robert Ricci
• 金额: $ 9.88万
• 依托单位: University of Utah
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-08-01 至 2025-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2213823&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CCRI; Planning; TopoCloud; New; Community

This project is focused on community formation and planning activities related to TopoCloud, a new testbed for network experimentation. Compared to earlier network testbeds, TopoCloud will give experimenters the ability to see and modify a datacenter network's topology -- that is, the way in which its components are interconnected. To provide experimenters with exclusive, low-level access to programmable networking devices, all user-controlled networking devices in TopoCloud will be connected to an operator-controlled network. This network will be used to dynamically “rewire” servers and devices to physically create private networks that are guaranteed to run at full speed.Services provided by clouds and datacenters are at the core of much of the online world, supporting websites, apps, and even medical devices. The networks inside of these datacenters are critical determinants of the datacenter's performance, robustness, and cost. TopoCloud will be a unique resource that enables transformative research on the ways that datacenter networks are built and managed. As a result, it aims to enable research that will improve performance and lower costs in the networks that form the foundation for many of the services used in people’s daily lives.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.

该项目的重点是与TopoCloud有关的社区形成和计划活动，TopoCloud是一个用于网络实验的新测试。与较早的网络测试床相比，TopoCloud将使实验者能够查看和修改数据中心网络的拓扑 - 即其组件互连的方式。为了为实验者提供对可编程网络设备的独家，低级访问权限，TopoCloud中的所有用户控制的网络设备都将连接到操作员控制的网络。该网络将用于动态“重新连接”服务器和设备，以实际创建可以全速运行的专用网络。云和数据中心提供的服务是许多在线世界的核心，支持网站，应用程序，应用程序甚至医疗设备。这些数据中心内部的网络是数据中心性能，稳健性和成本的关键决定者。 TopoCloud将是一个独特的资源，可以对数据中心网络的构建和管理方式进行变革性研究。结果，它旨在启动研究，以提高绩效并降低网络中的成本，构成人们日常生活中使用的许多服务的基础。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是通过基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响来通过评估来获得的支持。