EAGER: Exploring the Potential of "Native Client" for Computational Science

EAGER的这项提案旨在测试一种新形式的云服务的可用性和可负担性，为某些类型的研究计算提供更具成本效益的计算资源。云服务是Google的“Exacquisition”云，使用他们的“本地客户端”（“NaCl”）编程模型，由于其对整个Exacquisition系统资源的需求有限，因此可以相对便宜地提供。测试的可用性组件将确定应用程序移植到NaCl编程模式的难易程度。可负担性取决于应用程序对计算、内存、数据存储和数据通信的相对需求。PI已为本测试选择了一个特定的、具有科学重要性的应用程序，作为具有适当系统需求的应用程序的代表。如果成功的话，这种新形式的服务可以通过利用非常大的商业云的未使用的功能来经济有效地提供大量额外的计算资源。

This EAGER proposal is to test the usability and affordability of a new form of cloud service for providing more cost effective computational resources for certain types of research computations. The cloud service is Google's "Exacycle" cloud using their "Native Client"("NaCl") programming model which can be offered comparatively inexpensively because of its constrained demands on the overall Exacycle system's resources. The usability component of the test will determine the ease with which applications can be ported to the NaCl programming mode. The affordability depends on the application's relative demands for computation, memory, data storage, and data communication. The PI has selected a specific, scientifically important application for this test as representative of applications with suitable system demands. If successful, this new form of service can provide substantial additional computational resources cost-effectively by utilizing otherwise unused capabilities of a very large, commercial cloud.