Collaborative Research: Managing Cloud Usage Allocation and Accounting for the NSF Community

协作研究：管理 NSF 社区的云使用分配和核算

• 批准号: 1250545
• 负责人: David Lifka
• 金额: $ 9万
• 依托单位: Cornell University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-10-01 至 2014-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1250545&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Managing; Cloud; Usage

Cloud computing platforms such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Cornell Red Cloud, and the SDSC Storage Cloud have emerged as important research computing resources. These resources are already popular in research and education due to their instant (on-demand) access, seemingly infinite scalability, ease of configuration for widely varying needs, and ability to offer higher-level, easier-to-use services to less-than-expert users. However, as usage of Cloud resources by the NSF community continues to grow, challenging issues of resource allocation, accounting, reporting and billing emerge. This award develops a framework that can simplify Cloud usage for researchers and educators while also enabling allocation, monitoring, and management by those responsible for strategic and budget planning and reporting. The PI's partner with Amazon, Inc., Eucalyptus Systems, Inc., and MathWorks, Inc., theGlobus Online team from the University of Chicago and the Red Cloud team from Cornell University to develop and evaluate a prototype service called Globus Usage that can be leveraged by individuals and their research groups, academic institutions, NSF projects, and XSEDE to integrate a range of cloud services into their research computing environments, with the ability to implement allocation, accounting, reporting, and billing all from a single Web-based dashboard.

Amazon Web Services、Microsoft Azure、Cornell Red Cloud 和 SDSC Storage Cloud 等云计算平台已成为重要的研究计算资源。这些资源因其即时（按需）访问、看似无限的可扩展性、易于配置以满足广泛不同的需求以及为不那么专业的用户提供更高级别、更易于使用的服务的能力而在研究和教育中已经很受欢迎。然而，随着 NSF 社区对云资源的使用不断增长，出现了资源分配、会计、报告和计费等具有挑战性的问题。该奖项开发了一个框架，可以简化研究人员和教育工作者的云使用，同时还可以由负责战略和预算规划和报告的人员进行分配、监控和管理。 PI 与 Amazon, Inc.、Eucalyptus Systems, Inc. 和 MathWorks, Inc.、芝加哥大学的 Globus Online 团队和康奈尔大学的 Red Cloud 团队合作开发和评估名为 Globus 使用的原型服务，个人及其研究小组、学术机构、NSF 项目和 XSEDE 可以利用该服务将一系列云服务集成到他们的研究计算环境中，并能够实施分配、 会计、报告和计费全部来自一个基于 Web 的仪表板。