MRI: Development of a Virtual Cloud Computing Infrastructure

提案编号：10- 40123 PI：Peterson，Larry L. Freedman，Michael J.;派，维韦克;雷克斯福德，萨弗机构：普林斯顿大学职称： MRI/Dev：拟议的虚拟云计算基础设施项目的开发：该项目，建立VICCI，一个可编程的云计算研究试验台，使广泛的研究议程在网络系统的设计，需要多个点的存在和显着的处理/存储能力的网站。VICCI是一种分布式仪器，在普林斯顿大学、乔治亚理工大学、斯坦福大学和华盛顿大学以及沿着欧洲和日本的国际集群都有一个接入点，它包括一组分布式虚拟化计算集群和网络硬件以及软件，使多个研究人员能够在基础设施层和基础设施层以上进行创新。它旨在支持研究使用环境的大规模分布式服务的设计和部署。VICCI使以下方面的研究成为可能：-构建块服务（解决复制、一致性、容错、可扩展性能、对象位置和迁移等问题），旨在供其他云应用程序使用;-开发针对目标应用程序域设计的新云编程模型;以及-研究云基础中的交叉问题？的设计，以及如何构建一个可信的云平台，确保外包给云的计算的机密性和完整性。计划包括使用PlanetLab的工作软件引导VICCI，最终目标是将结果折叠到VICCI本身，从而为研究可扩展的网络系统创建一个更有效的平台。这个项目受到PlanetLab经验的强烈影响，PlanetLab已经证明了在现实平台上部署实验性网络服务的重要性（即，足够现实以吸引真实的用户群体的平台）提供了评估和部署可扩展的新网络服务的现实环境。VICCI支持原型系统的部署研究。因此，它通过支持可扩展服务和应用程序从早期原型的无缝迁移来加速研究和教学过程。此外，它还提供了一条重新激活创新过程的途径，这一过程导致了新的网络服务、广泛的消费者采用以及新的经济和社会价值的产生。它还为研究生提供了构建大型分布式系统的丰富经验，并使更多的课程设计利用该仪器。

Proposal #: 10-40123PI(s): Peterson, Larry L. Freedman, Michael J.; Pai, Vivek; Rexford, JenniferInstitution: Princeton University Title: MRI/Dev: Development of a Virtual Cloud Computing Infrastructure Project Proposed:This project, building VICCI, a programmable cloud-computing research testbed, enables a broad research agenda in the design of network systems that requires both multiple point-of-presence and significant processing/storage capabilities on the sites. VICCI, a distributed instrument with a point-of-presence at Princeton, GeorgiaTech, Stanford, and U Washington, along with international clusters in Europe and Japan, encompasses both a distributed set of virtualized compute clusters and networking hardware and the software that enables multiple researchers to innovate both at and above the infrastructure layer. It is designed to support research both into the design and deployment of large-scale distributed services that use an environment. VICCI enables research in- Building block services (addressing issues of replication, consistency, fault-tolerance, scalable performance, object location, and migration) designed to be used by other cloud applications,- Developing new cloud programming models designed for targeted application domains, and- Studying cross-cutting issues at the foundation of the cloud?s design and how to build a trusted cloud platform that ensures confidentiality and integrity of computations that are outsourced to the cloud.Plans include bootstrapping VICCI with working software from PlanetLab with an ultimate goal of folding the results into VICCI itself, thus creating an even more effective platform for research into scalable network systems.Broader Impacts: This project, strongly influenced by the experience with PlanetLab that has demonstrated the importance of deploying experimental network services on realistic platforms (i.e., platforms that are realistic enough to attract the real user community), provides a realistic environment to evaluate and deploy scalable new network services. VICCI supports deployment studies of prototype systems. Thus, it accelerates research and teaching processes by supporting seamless migration of scalable services and applications from early prototypes. Moreover, it offers a path to re-energize the innovative process that has led to new network services, widespread consumer adoption, and generation of new economic and social value. It also provides graduate students with extensive experience in building large-scale distributed systems and enables the design of more courses taking advantage of the instrument.