Collaborative Research: Design and Analysis of High-Performance, Energy-Efficient, and Secure Clusters

集群已经成为设计高性能服务器的最有效的解决方案，越来越多的服务器被部署在支持各种基于Web的服务中。随着高性能和可预测的性能，这些服务器中的能耗优化已经成为一个严重的问题，因为它们的高功率预算。此外，许多基于互联网的服务的关键性质要求这些系统应该对来自互联网的攻击具有健壮性，因为集群服务器的许多安全漏洞都是最突出的。因此，设计和分析高性能、高能效和安全的集群不仅从学术和工业角度，而且从社会经济和环境角度对下一代集群系统都是至关重要的。虽然最近出现了一些关于集群能耗和安全性的初步研究，但考虑到上述三个参数的集群互连还没有进行深入的设计和分析。另一方面，这样的调查极具挑战性，因为在许多方面都有许多可控因素，而且这些因素往往是相互冲突的。因此，拟议的研究试图从基本集群组件到整个系统以一种自下而上的方式解决三个问题。计划将所有组件设计为插入模拟试验台，以评估它们对性能的影响。

Clusters have emerged as the most effective solution to design high-performance servers, which are increasingly being deployed in supporting a wide variety of web-based services. Along with high and predictable performance, optimization of energy consumption in these servers has become a serious concern due to their high power budgets. In addition, the critical nature of many Internet-based services mandate that these systems should be robust to attacks from the Internet, because numerous security loopholes of cluster servers come to the forefront. Therefore, design and analysis of high-performance, energy-efficient, and secure clusters is crucial for the next-generation cluster systems not only from academic and industrial standpoints, but from socio-economic and environmental standpoints. Although some initial investigation on cluster energy consumption and security has appeared recently, an in-depth design and analysis of a cluster interconnect considering the three parameters above have not been undertaken. On the other hand, such an investigation is extremely challenging because there are numerous controllable factors across many dimensions and frequently these factors are conflicting. Therefore, the proposed research attempts to address three issues in a ground-up fashion starting from the basic cluster components to the entire system. It is planned to design all components to be plugged into the simulation testbed to assess their impacts on performance.