Collaborative Research: EAGER: REAL Leafy - A Sustainable, Viral Infrastructure-as-a-Service Edge Cloud

协作研究：EAGER：REAL Leafy - 可持续的、病毒式的基础设施即服务边缘云

• 批准号: 1820906
• 负责人: Justin Cappos
• 金额: $ 8.93万
• 依托单位: New York 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: 2018-03-01 至 2019-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1820906&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; EAGER; REAL; Leafy

Experimental distributed computing services are becoming vital to support emerging cyberphysical systems. But the capital investment and operational expenses required to sustain experimental research testbeds to host these vital services can grow large. In this project the Leafy edge compute cloud explores a new model for computing research infrastructure -- a software-only, geographically decentralized cloud testbed that expands in size through voluntary contributions of available computing hardware, on a part- or full-time basis. The LEAFY Cloud offers the prospect of a virtuous cycle: as more sites join the LEAFY edge cloud, more software developers and experimenters are attracted to the infrastructure, resulting in the deployment of more applications and services, increasing the value of new contributors offering to host a compute resource.This project will develop and prototype a viral, sustainable, software-only distributed testbed for Cloud-in-the-Loop Systems, and to explore the issues involved in supporting distributed computing experiments and services. It will incorporate modern orchestration, management, and tenancy technologies, and rely heavily on open source virtualization and cloud management software technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes. LEAFY will be the first multi-tenant wide-area distributed system to deploy systems and experiments using a state-of-the-art micro-services architecture. Two experiments will be hosted and analyzed to evaluate the system: a Distributed Collaborative Visualization System and the Global Data Plane.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

实验性分布式计算服务对于支持新兴的网络物理系统变得至关重要。 但是，维持实验研究试验台以托管这些重要服务所需的资本投资和运营费用可能会越来越大。在这个项目中，Leafy边缘计算云探索了一种新的计算研究基础设施模型--一种纯软件的、地理上分散的云测试平台，通过自愿贡献可用的计算硬件来扩大规模。LEAFY Cloud提供了一个良性循环的前景：随着越来越多的站点加入LEAFY边缘云，越来越多的软件开发人员和实验人员被吸引到基础设施中，从而部署了更多的应用程序和服务，增加了提供托管计算资源的新贡献者的价值。该项目将为云在环系统开发和原型化一个病毒式的、可持续的、仅软件的分布式测试平台，并探讨支持分布式计算实验和服务所涉及的问题。它将整合现代编排、管理和租赁技术，并严重依赖开源虚拟化和云管理软件技术，如Docker和Kubernetes。LEAFY将是第一个使用最先进的微服务架构部署系统和实验的多租户广域分布式系统。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。