CC-NIE Integration: Bringing SDN based Private Cloud to University Research

CC-NIE 集成：将基于 SDN 的私有云引入大学研究

• 批准号: 1245810
• 负责人: Nick McKeown
• 金额: $ 90万
• 依托单位: Stanford University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-01-01 至 2015-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1245810&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CC; NIE; Integration; Bringing; SDN

Scientific computing groups on university campuses are often limited by insufficient access to computing cycles, storage capacity, and network bandwidth in a flexible and cost effective way. This prevents them from scaling their applications and taking on grand-challenge problems. Moreover, the current network infrastructure is built with proprietary switches, routers and with proliferating appliances such as firewalls and load balancers. As a result, the IT operation group faces increasing complexity, cost, and lack of control of the existing infrastructure. This closed infrastructure also prevents network researchers from exploring new ideas at scale in a production setting.This project leverages two disruptive technologies that the Web infrastructure and "a cloud" are exploiting: multi-tenancy virtualized clusters and Software Defined Networks (SDN). Multi-tenancy virtualized clusters enable scale-out designs with very flexible resource use and the best cost performance. SDN makes it possible to customize infrastructure and to eliminate unnecessary complexity and costs.This project builds an SDN-based Private Cloud to bring these two disruptive technologies to the campus and with them the scale, flexibility, and cost performance. With this private cloud, scientific computing groups are able to share the physical infrastructure while simultaneously customizing computing and networking for their applications. Radar remote sensing and biological computing applications are used as example scientific computing applications to demonstrate value of this infrastructure. The SDN based Private Cloud will impact various communities on a campus and will become a showcase for other campuses and thus help them exploit the latest trends in networking and computing.

大学校园中的科学计算组通常受限于以灵活且具有成本效益的方式对计算周期、存储容量和网络带宽的访问不足。这阻止了他们扩展他们的应用程序并承担巨大的挑战问题。此外，目前的网络基础设施是由专有的交换机、路由器以及防火墙和负载平衡器等激增的设备组成的。因此，IT运营团队面临着日益增加的复杂性、成本以及对现有基础架构的控制力不足。这种封闭的基础设施也阻碍了网络研究人员在生产环境中大规模探索新的想法。该项目利用了Web基础设施和“云”正在利用的两种颠覆性技术：多租户虚拟化集群和软件定义网络（SDN）。多租户虚拟化集群支持横向扩展设计，具有非常灵活的资源使用和最佳的性价比。SDN使定制基础设施成为可能，并消除不必要的复杂性和成本。该项目构建了一个基于SDN的私有云，将这两种颠覆性技术引入园区，并带来规模，灵活性和性价比。借助此私有云，科学计算团队能够共享物理基础设施，同时为其应用程序定制计算和网络。雷达遥感和生物计算的应用程序被用来作为示例科学计算的应用程序，以证明这种基础设施的价值。基于SDN的私有云将影响校园内的各个社区，并将成为其他校园的展示平台，从而帮助他们利用网络和计算的最新趋势。