CRI: IAD Research Infrastructure for Emerging Networked Systems and Applications

0709048CRI：新兴网络系统和应用的IAD研究基础设施张志丽在过去的几年里，以Skype、YouTube、Wiki和其他Web 2.0应用为例，出现了大规模的社区驱动和点对点的互联网应用和服务。这些应用程序中的许多不依赖于中央服务器进行操作，也不依赖于中央机构进行管理，因此信任和安全对于它们的正确操作和管理至关重要。此外，这些应用的特征在于对大量计算、通信和存储资源的需求，这些资源必须以分散的方式在基本上不可靠和不可信的网络上提供。该项目的目标是建立明尼苏达州新兴网络系统和应用(Mensa)研究基础设施，以推进明尼苏达大学(UMN)对新兴互联网规模、面向社区的网络系统和应用的研究。这一基础设施支持UMN的几个PI的研究，这些PI正在几个层面上应对新兴应用程序的挑战：从应用程序到网络和系统级别。PI带来了网络和分布式系统、网格计算、密码学和安全、数据挖掘和机器学习以及理论方面的独特专业知识。更广泛的影响：门萨设施还提供了一个理想的“动手”学习环境，向学生传授对当今IT员工至关重要的重要数据分析、系统建设和实验技能。在更广泛的社会背景下，能够创建新兴的互联网规模、用户驱动、社区导向、联网的系统和应用程序，其中许多太过未来主义，尚未被考虑，将为用户和整个社会带来重大好处。

0709048CRI: IAD Research Infrastructure for Emerging Networked Systems and ApplicationsZhi-Li ZhangThe past few years have seen the emergence of large-scale community-driven and peer-to-peer Internet applications and services exemplified by Skype, YouTube, wikis and other Web 2.0 applications. Many of these applications do not rely on centralized servers for their operations or central authorities for management, making trust and security essential to their proper operation and management. In addition, these applications are characterized by demand of large amount of computational, communication and storage resources that must be provided in a decentralized manner on a largely unreliable and untrusted network. The goal of this project is to establish the Minnesota Emerging Networked Systems and Applications (MENSA) Research Infrastructure for advancing research on emerging Internet-scale, community-oriented, networked systems and applications at the University of Minnesota (UMN). This infrastructure supports the research of several PIs at UMN that are addressing the challenges of emerging applications at several levels: from the application to the network and system levels. The PIs bring a unique blend of expertise in networking and distributed systems, grid computing, cryptography and security, data mining and machine learning, and theory. Broader Impact: The MENSA facility also provides an ideal "hands-on'' learning environment for teaching students important data analysis, system building and experimental skills that are critical for today's IT workforce. In a broader social context, enabling the creation of emerging Internet-scale, user-driven, community-oriented, networked systems and applications, many of which are too futuristic to have yet been contemplated, will bring significant benefit to users and the society at large.