Collaborative Research: Campus Compute Cooperative (CCC) Planning Grant Proposal

各机构之间共享资源的想法并不新鲜，在少数情况下相对成功，在许多情况下基本上不成功。该提案阐述了建设校园计算合作社(CCC)的计划，这是一个共享的网络基础设施和社会结构；计算资源和支助人员的专业知识将汇集和共享。CCC将：i)连接和联合校园物理基础设施；ii)使用基于市场的资源分配和服务质量机制，以避免公有资源的悲剧；iii)利用不常见的和本地身份管理系统，提供整合的跨机构身份验证和资源访问控制；iv)促进机构和研究实验室之间的安全数据和存储共享；v)向成员机构提供“云爆发”；以及vi)提供付费、差异化的服务质量。按需、按次付费(云)资源对社会的影响是巨大的。最大限度地利用有限的资源对国家研究企业的成功至关重要。通过合理和安全地共享可用于研究的有限的计算和人力资源，CCC将既加速发现，又以更好的成本/效益提供研究网络基础设施。

The idea of sharing resources between institutions is not new and has been relatively successful in a few instances and largely unsuccessful in many cases. This proposal elaborates a plan to construct the Campus Compute Cooperative (CCC), a shared cyberinfrastructure as well as a social fabric; both computational resources and support staff expertise will be pooled and shared. The CCC will: i) connect and federate campus physical infrastructures; ii) use market-based mechanisms for resource allocation and quality of service to avoid the tragedy of the commons; iii) leverage InCommon and local identity management systems to provide integrated cross-institution authentication and access control of resources; iv) facilitate secure data and storage sharing between institutions and research labs; v) offer "cloud bursting" to member institutions; and, vi) provide paid-for, differentiated quality of service. The impact of on-demand, pay-per-use (cloud) resources on society has been huge. Making the most of limited resources is critical to the success of the nation's research enterprise. By rationally and securely sharing the limited computational and human resources available for research the CCC will both accelerate discovery and provide a research cyberinfrastructure with better cost/benefit.