NSFCloud Workshop: Experimental Support for Cloud Computing

NSFCloud征集活动成立于2013年，作为NSF CISE研究基础设施(CRI)计划的一个通道，旨在提供一个实验平台，使学术研究社区能够推动对云计算和云计算架构的新一代创新应用的研究。虽然这项工作寻求建立在NSF之前的投资基础上，如GENI和FutureGrid试验台，但它的独特之处在于，它专门针对云计算领域，并寻求支持该领域的研究，并将其与系统、网络和网络物理系统(CPS)研究中的创新解决方案相结合，从而定义未来的广泛研究议程。NSF正在颁发NSFCloud奖项，随着这些项目的开始，研究社区和实验平台提供商之间必须启动对话，详细说明一方面的期望和另一方的能力，这一点至关重要。为启动这种对话，本项目为讲习班提供支持，讲习班的主要目标是：(1)向CEISE研究界提供早期信息，说明所资助的NSFCloud项目所采取的提供实验平台的方法；(2)为讨论CEISE社区的实验要求提供一个论坛，从而为社区反馈和完善这些计划提供机会。作为这些目标的延伸，研讨会为试验床提供者和他们将服务的研究社区之间提供了持久的沟通渠道，并探讨了将使这种关系高效和充实的合作和协同作用。本次研讨会邀请将依赖NSFCloud项目来支持其实验需求的CEISE研究社区以及NSFCloud团队本身的参与。主办方邀请来自两个群体的少数族裔服务机构(MSI)参与者。社区的参与有助于确保试验床在交付给社区时具有相关的能力，预期的研究项目是有针对性的，并且MSI社区可以使用这些设施。研讨会的结果指导了与NSFCloud提案相关的实验平台开发和社区推广。

The NSFCloud solicitation was established in 2013 as a track within the NSF CISE Research Infrastructure (CRI) program with the objective to provide an experimental platform enabling the academic research community to drive research on a new generation of innovative applications of cloud computing and cloud computing architectures. While this effort seeks to build on prior NSF investments, such as the GENI and FutureGrid testbeds, it is unique in that it targets specifically the field of cloud computing and seeks to support and integrate research in this area with innovate solutions in systems, networking, and cyber-physical system (CPS) research and thereby define a broad research agenda of the future. NSF is making NSFCloud awards, and as these projects begin, it is critical that a dialogue be initiated between the research community and the experimental platform providers, detailing the expectations on one side and capabilities on the other. To initiate such dialogue, this project provides support for a workshop whose principal objectives are to (1) provide early information to the CISE research community about the approach to providing an experimental platform taken by the funded NSFCloud projects; and (2) provide a forum for a discussion of the experimental requirements of the CISE community and thus provide an opportunity for community feedback and refinement of those plans. As an extension of these objectives, the workshop provides a lasting opening of the communication channels between the testbed providers and the research community they will serve, and explores collaborations and synergies that will make this relationship efficient and fulfilling. This workshop solicits participation from the CISE research community that will rely on the NSFCloud projects for the support of their experimental needs as well as the NSFCloud teams themselves. The organizers engage minority serving institution (MSI) participants from both groups. The participation by the community helps ensure that the testbeds, when delivered to the community, will have the relevant capabilities, that the intended research projects are targeted, and that the facilities are accessible to MSI communities. The results of the workshop guide the experimental platform development and community outreach related to the NSFCloud proposal.