Enabling Computer and Information Science and Engineering Research and Education in the Cloud Workshop

云研讨会赋能计算机与信息科学与工程研究与教育

• 批准号: 1818650
• 负责人: Jennifer Rexford
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: Princeton University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-01-15 至 2022-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1818650&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Enabling; Computer; Information; Science; Engineering

-Part 1:Cloud computing can transform computer science research and education through on-demand, elastic, and self-serve access to computation and storage resources at scale, coupled with contemporary hardware (e.g., graphical and tensor processing units), advanced software stacks (e.g., machine-learning libraries), and shared data sets. Researchers and educators can avoid the substantial time, energy, and expense of building and maintaining local infrastructure, students can be better prepared for the cloud-centered world they will enter upon graduation, and research projects across institutional boundaries can more easily share and maintain data and the results of their analysis. Although academic adoption of the cloud is increasing, significant challenges remain. Researchers worry about the relative costs compared to local infrastructure, especially when some local costs are hidden (e.g., "free" rack space, cooling, and power, as well as lower overhead charges on grants for equipment purchases). Graduate students worry about causing run-away costs if their experiments in the cloud run amok, and the risk of escalating costs near major paper submission deadlines. Some projects may not be able to use the public cloud, due to privacy issues (or the perception of increased privacy risk) concerning the underlying data. Plus, for both researchers and educators, making the transition to the cloud requires overcoming a "learning curve" to select a particular cloud offering---and learn how to use it effectively. This workshop will identify opportunities and challenges for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) researchers and educators to use the cloud, and recommend steps the major stakeholders can take to lower the barriers to cloud adoption. By convening a diverse community of stakeholders who can contribute to the strategic development of a cloud-computing roadmap, this workshop will lower the barriers for cloud adoption for academic research and education in CISE. The perspectives and insights shared from industry, government, and academia, coupled with discussions focused on actionable challenges and measurable outcomes, will serve to advance CISE research and education. The workshop will identify high-priority topics and high-impact opportunities for future research, training, and collaboration in conjunction with cloud computing.-Part 2The workshop will engage about 35-45 participants from academic, industry, and government, including principal investigators, educators, cloud-computing researchers, campus CIOs, public cloud providers, and government funding agencies. The workshop will focus on several key issues including, (1) CISE research and the cloud: What types of CISE research are (or are not) best enabled by cloud platforms? (2) CISE education and the cloud: What types of CISE education are best enabled by cloud platforms? What novel concepts can be taught? (3) Key challenges with cloud usage: What are the barriers to cloud adoption and how should the stakeholders address these issues? (4) Relationship among various types of resources: What roles should on-campus resources, national resources, and cloud-provided resources each play in supporting research and teaching? (5) Cloud costs: How can researchers and educators best manage the costs of cloud usage, including the risks of runaway costs or costs that continue after a grant funding a project has ended? (6) Education for prospective cloud users: What are good ways to educate and train researchers, students, and campus IT staff on using the cloud effectively? (7) Ongoing user support: What ongoing support is needed for academic users, whether locally or at the national level? The workshop will host a series of presentations and working sessions with live note-takers, resulting in a post-meeting white paper describing key themes, insights, and recommendations from the discussions. Lowering the barriers to academic use of the cloud has the potential to significantly improve how CISE researchers and educators conduct their work. Using the cloud can reduce IT costs, foster cross-institution and interdisciplinary research collaborators, and better train students for a cloud-centric world. Innovations in cloud computing services can help cloud providers recognize new opportunities ahead of future commercial demands, while better supporting academic research and education.

- 第1部分：云计算可以通过按需、弹性和自助式访问大规模计算和存储资源，再加上现代硬件（例如，图形和张量处理单元），高级软件栈（例如，机器学习库）和共享数据集。研究人员和教育工作者可以避免大量的时间，精力和费用来构建和维护本地基础设施，学生可以更好地为他们毕业后将进入的以云为中心的世界做好准备，跨机构边界的研究项目可以更容易地共享和维护数据及其分析结果。虽然学术界对云的采用正在增加，但仍然存在重大挑战。研究人员担心与当地基础设施相比的相对成本，特别是当一些当地成本被隐藏时（例如，“免费”机架空间、冷却和电力，以及设备购买赠款的较低管理费用）。研究生们担心，如果他们在云中的实验失控，会导致失控的成本，以及在主要论文提交截止日期附近成本上升的风险。由于涉及底层数据的隐私问题（或隐私风险增加的感知），一些项目可能无法使用公共云。此外，对于研究人员和教育工作者来说，过渡到云计算需要克服“学习曲线”来选择特定的云计算产品，并学习如何有效地使用它。本次研讨会将为计算机和信息科学与工程（CISE）研究人员和教育工作者确定使用云的机会和挑战，并建议主要利益相关者可以采取的步骤，以降低采用云的障碍。通过召集能够为云计算路线图的战略发展做出贡献的多元化利益相关者社区，本次研讨会将降低CISE学术研究和教育采用云计算的障碍。从行业，政府和学术界分享的观点和见解，再加上讨论的重点是可操作的挑战和可衡量的成果，将有助于推进CISE的研究和教育。该研讨会将确定高优先级主题和高影响力的机会，以便未来的研究，培训和与云计算合作。第2部分研讨会将吸引来自学术界、工业界和政府的约35-45名参与者，包括主要研究人员、教育工作者、云计算研究人员、校园CIO、公共云提供商和政府资助机构。 研讨会将集中在几个关键问题，包括，（1）CISE研究和云：什么类型的CISE研究是（或不是）最好的云平台启用？(2)CISE教育和云：什么类型的CISE教育最适合云平台？可以教什么新概念？(3)云使用的主要挑战：采用云的障碍是什么？利益相关者应该如何解决这些问题？(4)各种资源之间的关系：校内资源、国家资源和云提供的资源在支持研究和教学方面应该发挥什么作用？(5)云成本：研究人员和教育工作者如何才能最好地管理云计算使用的成本，包括成本失控的风险或在资助项目结束后继续存在的成本？(6)对潜在云用户的教育：有哪些好方法可以教育和培训研究人员、学生和校园IT人员有效地使用云？(7)持续的用户支持：学术用户需要什么持续的支持，无论是在地方还是在国家一级？研讨会将举办一系列演讲和工作会议，并由现场记录员进行记录，最后形成一份会后白色文件，描述讨论中的关键主题、见解和建议。降低学术使用云的障碍有可能显著改善CISE研究人员和教育工作者开展工作的方式。使用云计算可以降低IT成本，培养跨机构和跨学科的研究合作者，并更好地培养学生，以适应以云计算为中心的世界。云计算服务的创新可以帮助云提供商在未来商业需求之前认识到新的机会，同时更好地支持学术研究和教育。