Workshop on Next Generation Cloud Research Infrastructure

云计算研究基础设施（CRI）为计算和网络系统研究人员提供了一个环境，以托管他们的科学实验，以促进知识和教育下一代系统研究人员。系统研究社区广泛依赖于美国国家科学基金会（NSF）支持的计算研究基础设施，以推进当今商业云系统的基础技术，包括计算机和网络虚拟化、云结构即服务部署、高级编程模型和软件堆栈以及软件定义网络。近年来，商业计算云也在迅速发展，并有望在加速科学研究方面发挥持续和不断增长的作用。研究人员和教育工作者可以利用这些云平台来加速和改善他们的研究和教学，补充他们对专业CRI系统的使用。考虑到研究社区实验需求的发展和商业云产品的快速发展，计算研究社区面临着定期评估推进科学所需的专业研究基础设施的需求。这个项目似乎召集研究界就NSF支持的云研究基础设施的未来方向进行对话。拟议的研讨会将汇集学术界、工业界和政府的代表，阐明推进云研究基础设施的研究议程。为期两天的研讨会计划于2019年11月在新泽西的普林斯顿举行。该项目还将对更广泛的计算和网络研究界进行调查，了解他们目前和今后对云计算基础设施的使用情况和期望，以此补充讲习班的调查结果。该研讨会将寻求实现以下目标：1）召集关键的云研究基础设施利益相关者，评估学术云研究基础设施的现状，及其在不断发展的商业云产品学术使用背景下的作用;2）为基础设施开发人员和实验人员提供一个论坛，以满足并就云基础设施的未来方向进行客观和建设性的对话。将邀请主要来自商业云技术提供商和公共云运营商的行业与会者就公共基础设施对推进科学的补充作用以及他们预期的技术要求发表意见; 3）允许研究人员交换有关系统需求的信息，以解决他们未来的研究实验，评估云研究基础设施当前和未来对商业云产品的影响;以及4）就如何进一步发展和加强准备为大规模云的发展做出贡献的员工队伍交换意见-这些平台对美国经济越来越重要。研讨会结束后，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。

Cloud Computing Research Infrastructure (CRI) provides an environment for computing and networking systems researchers to host their scientific experiments to advance knowledge and to educate the next generation of systems researchers. The systems research community has relied extensively on National Science Foundation (NSF)-supported computing research infrastructures to advance technologies underlying today's commercial cloud systems including computer and network virtualization, Infrastructure-as-a Service deployments, advanced programming models and software stacks, and software defined networks. Commercial compute clouds have also evolved rapidly in recent years, and promise to play a continued and growing role in accelerating scientific research. Researchers and educators can and do leverage these cloud platforms to accelerate and improve their research and teaching, complementing their use of specialized CRI systems. Given the evolution of research community experimental requirements and the rapid evolution of commercial cloud offerings, the computing research community faces the need to periodically assess the specialized research infrastructure it needs to advance science. This project seems to convene the research community to engage in a dialogue about future directions for NSF-supported cloud research infrastructures.The proposed workshop will bring representatives from academia, industry, and government to articulate a research agenda for advancing cloud research infrastructure. The two day workshop is planned for November, 2019, in Princeton, New Jersey. The project will also seek to supplement the workshop findings by surveying the broader computing and networking research community about their current and future use and expectations of cloud computing infrastructures. The workshop will seek to realize the following goals:1) convene key cloud research infrastructure stakeholders to evaluate the current state of academic cloud research infrastructure, and its role in the context of evolving academic use of commercial cloud offerings;2) provide a forum for infrastructure developers and experimenters to meet and engage in objective and constructive dialog about future directions for cloud infrastructure. Industry participants -- primarily from commercial cloud technology providers and public cloud operators -- will be invited to share their views about the complementary role of public infrastructure to advance science, and their anticipated technology requirements;3) allow researchers to exchange information about system needs to address their future research experiments, and assess the current and future impact that cloud research infrastructures can and will have on commercial cloud offerings; and4) exchange ideas on how to further develop and strengthen a workforce ready to contribute to the advancement of the large-scale cloud-based platforms that are increasingly central to the US economy.Following the workshop, report will be written and disseminated to share findings and survey results with the broader systems research community.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.