CI-ADDO-EN: Enhancing Emulab for Virtualization and Clouds

CI-ADDO-EN：增强虚拟化和云的 Emulab

• 批准号: 1059440
• 负责人: Robert Ricci
• 金额: $ 100万
• 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: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-08-01 至 2013-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1059440&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CI; ADDO; EN; Enhancing; Emulab

This project is enhancing the public Emulab network testbed to better support research and educational activities that deal with computer virtualization. Virtualization is transforming computing. Cloud computing, virtual desktops, and similar techniques are changing the ways people think about, provision, and purchase resources. Virtualization is a cornerstone of future computing architectures, so it is critical to promote research in this area.Although there is an abundance of virtual infrastructure today, there is a lack of public physical infrastructure on which to conduct sizable experiments in virtualization. Investigations into virtual-machine and cloud-management software require access to "bare metal" computer and network resources because the goal of virtualization is to abstract underlying physical resources. Currently, researchers and educators lack access to the modern, networked, physical facilities needed to develop the next generation of virtualization-based systems software.This project is addressing the need for these physical facilities. It is extending Emulab, an existing and Internet-accessible network testbed, to support widespread experimentation and education in virtualization technologies. Activities include acquiring modern hardware on which to conduct virtualization experiments, developing software to support this new hardware, operating the enhanced testbed, and performing outreach through open-source software releases and support to sites that run Emulab software.The enhanced testbed will support research and education toward new services that utilize virtualization: e.g., tomorrow's clouds, virtual machines, and Internet-based applications. It will enable thousands of researchers and students to run realistic virtualization-oriented experiments that would otherwise be impossible.

该项目正在增强公共Emulab网络试验台，以更好地支持与计算机虚拟化相关的研究和教育活动。虚拟化正在改变计算。云计算、虚拟桌面和类似技术正在改变人们思考、供应和购买资源的方式。虚拟化是未来计算体系结构的基石，因此推动这一领域的研究至关重要。尽管当今有丰富的虚拟基础设施，但缺乏公共物理基础设施来进行大规模的虚拟化实验。对虚拟机和云管理软件的调查需要访问“裸机”计算机和网络资源，因为虚拟化的目标是抽象底层物理资源。目前，研究人员和教育工作者缺乏开发下一代基于虚拟化的系统软件所需的现代、联网的物理设施。该项目正在解决对这些物理设施的需求。它正在扩展Emulab，这是一个现有的可访问互联网的网络测试床，以支持广泛的虚拟化技术实验和教育。活动包括购买用于进行虚拟化实验的现代硬件，开发支持此新硬件的软件，操作增强的试验台，以及通过发布开源软件和支持运行Emulab软件的站点进行扩展。增强的试验台将支持针对利用虚拟化的新服务的研究和教育：例如，未来的云、虚拟机和基于互联网的应用程序。它将使数以千计的研究人员和学生能够运行现实的、面向虚拟化的实验，否则这些实验是不可能的。