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

IUCRC 第一期东北大学：规模系统创新中心 (i-Scale)

• 批准号: 2333352
• 负责人: Peter Desnoyers
• 金额: $ 75万
• 依托单位: Northeastern 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=2333352&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: IUCRC; Phase; Northeastern; 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 Northeastern including data storage systems, system software, hardware accelerators, security and privacy, compilers and runtime systems, energy-efficient and resilient computing, the Internet of Things (IoT), and edge computing. 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, through both on-campus experience and the Northeastern co-op program, and provides input to coursework and curricula 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-Scale) 是 NSF 资助的工业大学合作研究中心 (IUCRC)，在东北大学和波士顿大学设有研究中心，致力于解决数据中心规模计算的挑战。 i-Scale 中心在当今的计算领域中无处不在，并为行业相关研究提供了独特的机会，它跨越软件和硬件层大规模地探索这些计算系统的挑战。通过与大众开放云联盟 (MOC-A) 和马萨诸塞州绿色高性能计算中心 (MGHPCC) 的合作，该中心进一步利用开源技术，为学术用户提供研究信息，并提供评估和转化为实践的途径。许可以促进大学研究人员和工业合作伙伴之间的合作，使工程和系统构建达到在大学环境中难以实现的水平。随着计算规模的增长，学术研究人员在计算机系统方面面临的挑战也越来越大。大规模观察真实用户、应用程序和系统。 i-Scale 与行业合作伙伴和大型学术计算装置合作，作为计算机系统研究的独特工具，i-Scale 研究重点关注大规模计算的各个方面，东北大学的研究重点包括数据存储系统、系统软件、硬件加速器、安全和隐私、编译器和运行时系统、节能和弹性计算、物联网 (IoT) 和边缘计算不仅突破了数据中心和计算技术的界限。 ，但要过渡这个该中心与行业赞助商和开源社区合作，将研究付诸实践，通过与处于大规模计算前沿的公司和开源项目合作，为本科生和研究生提供发展行业的关键经验。 - 通过校园经验和东北大学合作项目获得相关技术技能，并为课程作业和课程提供投入，以保持教学跟上该领域的最新发展。 i-Scale 支持的研究项目将带来广泛的好处。新技术的开发数据中心规模的系统，包括私有云和混合云，它们是当今计算领域的普遍组成部分。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。