IUCRC Phase I Boston University: Center for Systems Innovation at Scale (i-Scale)

IUCRC 第一阶段波士顿大学：大规模系统创新中心 (i-Scale)

• 批准号: 2333320
• 负责人: Orran Krieger
• 金额: $ 75万
• 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: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-01-01 至 2028-12-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2333320&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: IUCRC; Phase; Boston; University; Center

The Center for Systems Innovation at Scale (i-Scale) is an NSF-sponsored Industry University Collaborative Research Center (IUCRC) with sites at Northeastern University and Boston University, addressing the challenges of datacenter-scale computing. These large-scale shared systems are a pervasive part of today's computing landscape, and present unique opportunities for industry-relevant research. The i-Scale Center explores the challenges of these computing systems at large scale, across both software and hardware layers. It harnesses the computing demand of diverse sets of academic users to inform research and to provide paths for evaluation and translation into practice, via partnerships with the Mass Open Cloud Alliance (MOC-A) and the Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC). The Center further takes advantage of open-source licensing to facilitate collaboration between university researchers and industrial partners, allowing engineering and system-building on levels difficult to achieve within a university environment. As the scale of computing grows, so do the challenges facing academic researchers in computer systems, as it becomes increasingly difficult to observe real users, applications, and systems at scale. i-Scale collaborates with both industry partners and large-scale academic computing installations, which serve as unique instruments for computer systems research. i-Scale research focuses on all aspects of large-scale computing, with research thrusts at Boston University including data storage systems, scalable operating systems, hardware accelerators, privacy and economics, programming models, energy-efficient and resilient computing, and infrastructures and facilities management. i-Scale works to not only push the boundaries of data center and computing technology, but to transition this research into practice, in collaboration with its industry sponsors and the open source community. Through partnership with companies and open source projects operating at the cutting edge of large-scale computing, the Center trains and provides key experience to undergraduate and graduate students in developing industry-relevant technical skills, and provides input to coursework, curricula, and Boston University-developed open textbooks to keep teaching abreast of the latest developments in the field. Research projects supported by i-Scale will provide broad benefits from the development of new technologies for datacenter-scale systems, including private and hybrid clouds, that are a pervasive part of today’s computing landscape.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.

大规模系统创新中心（I规模）是由NSF赞助的行业大学合作研究中心（IUCRC），其网站在东北大学和波士顿大学，涉及数据中心规模计算的挑战。这些大规模的共享系统是当今计算环境的普遍部分，并为与行业相关的研究提供了独特的机会。 I级中心在软件和硬件层之间大规模探索了这些计算系统的挑战。它通过与大规模开放云联盟（MOC-A）和马萨诸塞州绿色高性能计算中心（MGHPCC）的合作伙伴关系来利用潜水员的学术用户集合的计算需求，并提供评估和翻译为实践的途径。该中心进一步利用开源许可来接待大学研究人员与工业合作伙伴之间的合作，从而使工程和系统建设在大学环境中难以实现的水平。随着计算增长的规模，计算机系统中的学术研究人员面临的挑战也越来越困难，无法大规模观察真实的用户，应用程序和系统。 I-Scale与行业合作伙伴和大规模的学术计算设施合作，这些设施是计算机系统研究的独特工具。 I级研究的重点是大规模计算的各个方面，波士顿大学的研究推力包括数据存储系统，可扩展操作系统，硬件加速器，隐私和经济学，编程模型，能源和抵抗力的计算以及基础设施和设施管理。 I级规模不仅致力于突破数据中心和计算技术的界限，而且还可以与行业赞助商和开源社区合作将这项研究转变为实践。通过与公司和开源项目的合作伙伴关系，在大型计算的最前沿运行，中心列车，并为发展与行业相关的技术技能的本科生和研究生提供了重要的经验，并为课程工作，课程和波士顿大学提供的投入提供了投入，以继续教授该领域的最新发展。由I级支持的研究项目将为数据中心规模系统的新技术（包括私有和混合云）提供广泛的好处，这些技术是当今计算机景观的广泛性的一部分。本奖反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是通过基金会的知识优点和广泛影响来评估的支持，并被认为是宝贵的支持。