CSR: Small: The Pocket Datacenter

CSR：小型：袖珍数据中心

• 批准号: 1319405
• 负责人: Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau
• 金额: $ 49.94万
• 依托单位: University of Wisconsin-Madison
• 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: 2013-09-01 至 2017-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1319405&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CSR; Small; Pocket; Datacenter

Research and development in cloud-based distributed systems is currentlyhindered due to the incredible difficulty of running such systems atscale. The Wisconsin Pocket Datacenter (PoD) project directly addresses thisdilemma by enabling researchers and developers to run large-scale distributedsystems on modest hardware resources. The key novel idea behind PoD is dataelision, which removes actual application data from the underlying disks,memories, and network transfers of the distributed system under test. PoD thusenables many virtual instances of such a system to be run upon just a fewphysical machines, thus making testing, debugging, and in general developmentsimpler, faster, and less resource-intensive.Cloud-based distributed systems represent a critically-important piece ofmodern computing infrastructure. As users and corporations migrate their dataand computation into such facilities, it is increasingly important to ensurethat such systems operate correctly and efficiently. PoD enables developers todebug existing systems and test new designs without excessive hardwareresources; with such a tool in their workbench, system developers will be ableto more readily build and test the next generation of cloud-based systems tosupport the needs of a growing percentage of society.

基于云的分布式系统的研究和开发目前受到阻碍，因为大规模运行此类系统非常困难。威斯康星州的便携式数据中心（PoD）项目直接解决了这一难题，使研究人员和开发人员能够在适度的硬件资源上运行大规模的分布式系统。PoD背后的关键新思想是数据省略，它从底层磁盘，内存和测试下的分布式系统的网络传输中删除实际应用程序数据。因此，PoD使这种系统的许多虚拟实例能够在几台物理机器上运行，从而使测试，调试和一般开发更简单，更快，资源密集度更低。基于云的分布式系统代表了现代计算基础设施的一个至关重要的部分。随着用户和企业将数据和计算迁移到此类设施中，确保此类系统正确有效地运行变得越来越重要。PoD使开发人员能够调试现有系统并测试新设计，而无需过多的硬件资源;在他们的工作台上使用这样的工具，系统开发人员将能够更容易地构建和测试下一代基于云的系统，以支持越来越多的社会需求。