CCRI: Grand: Developing a Testbed for the Research Community Exploring Next-Generation Cloud Platforms

CCRI：盛大：为研究界探索下一代云平台开发测试平台

• 批准号: 1925658
• 负责人: Peter Desnoyers
• 金额: $ 150.36万
• 依托单位: Northeastern University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-10-01 至 2024-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1925658&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CCRI; Grand; Developing; Testbed; Research

Cloud computing plays an important role in supporting most software we use in our daily lives. This project will construct and support a testbed for research and experimentation into new cloud platforms - the underlying software which provides cloud services to applications. Testbeds such as this are critical for enabling research into new cloud technologies - research that requires experiments which potentially change the operation of the cloud itself. The new testbed will combine proven software technologies with a real production cloud enhanced with programmable hardware - Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) - capabilities not present in other facilities available to researchers today. The combination of a testbed and production cloud allows a) larger scale compared to isolated testbeds, b) reproducible experimentation based on realistic user behavior and applications, as well as c) a model for transitioning successful research results to practice. The programmable hardware will be a unique resource enabling investigation into hardware acceleration techniques, and the community outreach portion of the project aims to identify, attract, and retain interested researchers, and to educate them in the use of the facility. The testbed offers a unique sustainability model, by allowing additional compute resources to be dynamically moved from institutional uses into the testbed and back again, providing a path to growth beyond the initial testbed.This testbed will accelerate innovation in cloud technologies; technologies affecting almost all of computing today. In providing capabilities that today are only available to researchers within a few large commercial cloud providers, it will allow diverse communities to exploit these technologies, "democratizing" cloud computing research, and allowing increased collaboration between the research and open source communities. The community outreach activities of the project are targeted to researchers who explore complex distributed systems and cloud platforms, spanning a diverse range of backgrounds, institutions, and regions. Software tools will be developed to provide easy and efficient access by these researchers; tutorials, workshops, and webinars will offer training in the use of these tools and the testbed itself. The project will support educating the next generation of researchers in this field, and existing relationships with industrial partners of the affiliated production cloud will accelerate technology transfer from academic research to practical use.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.

云计算在支持我们日常生活中使用的大多数软件方面发挥着重要作用。该项目将构建并支持一个用于研究和实验新云平台的测试平台——为应用程序提供云服务的底层软件。诸如此类的测试平台对于支持新云技术的研究至关重要——研究需要可能改变云本身操作的实验。新的测试平台将结合经过验证的软件技术和通过可编程硬件（现场可编程门阵列（FPGA））增强的真实生产云，这些功能是目前研究人员可用的其他设施所不具备的。测试台和生产云的结合允许 a) 与孤立的测试台相比规模更大，b) 基于实际用户行为和应用程序的可重复实验，以及 c) 将成功的研究成果转化为实践的模型。可编程硬件将成为一种独特的资源，能够研究硬件加速技术，该项目的社区外展部分旨在识别、吸引和留住感兴趣的研究人员，并教育他们如何使用该设施。该测试台提供了独特的可持续性模型，允许额外的计算资源动态地从机构用途转移到测试台并再返回，从而提供了超越初始测试台的增长路径。该测试台将加速云技术的创新；影响当今几乎所有计算的技术。通过提供目前只有少数大型商业云提供商的研究人员才能使用的功能，它将允许不同的社区利用这些技术，“民主化”云计算研究，并允许加强研究和开源社区之间的合作。该项目的社区外展活动针对的是探索复杂分布式系统和云平台的研究人员，跨越不同的背景、机构和地区。将开发软件工具，为这些研究人员提供方便、高效的访问；教程、研讨会和网络研讨会将提供有关使用这些工具和测试台本身的培训。该项目将支持教育该领域的下一代研究人员，与附属生产云的工业合作伙伴的现有关系将加速从学术研究到实际应用的技术转移。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

项目成果

A Framework to Enable Runtime Programmable P4-enabled FPGAs in the Open Cloud Testbed

• DOI: 10.1109/infocomwkshps57453.2023.10225877
• 发表时间: 2023-05
• 期刊: IEEE INFOCOM 2023 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS)
• 作者: Zhaoyang Han;Suranga Handagala;Kalyani Patle;M. Zink;M. Leeser

Network Attached FPGAs in the Open Cloud Testbed (OCT)

• DOI: 10.1109/infocomwkshps54753.2022.9798375
• 发表时间: 2022-05
• 期刊: IEEE INFOCOM 2022 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications Workshops (INFOCOM WKSHPS)
• 作者: Suranga Handagala;M. Leeser;Kalyani Patle;M. Zink

The Open Cloud Testbed (OCT): A Platform for Research into new Cloud Technologies

开放云测试床 (OCT)：新云技术研究平台

• DOI: 10.1109/cloudnet53349.2021.9657109
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: 2021 IEEE 10th International Conference on Cloud Networking (CloudNet
• 作者: Zink, Michael;Irwin, David;Cecchet, Emmanuel;Saplakoglu, Hakan;Krieger, Orran;Herbordt, Martin;Daitzman, Michael;Desnoyers, Peter;Leeser, Miriam;Handagala, Suranga
• 通讯作者: Handagala, Suranga

FPGAs in the Cloud

云端 FPGA

• DOI: 10.1109/mcse.2021.3127288
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: Computing in Science & Engineering
• 影响因子: 2.1
• 作者: Leeser, Miriam;Handagala, Suranga;Zink, Michael
• 通讯作者: Zink, Michael