GENI Project Office, Phase 2

网络创新的全球环境？GENI吗?是一套研究基础设施，在美国各地迅速形成原型。GENI旨在通过提供一套基础设施，将网络和分布式系统的实验研究以及新兴研究转化为非常大的社会技术系统。在规模?未来互联网的实验。GENI支持两种类型的实验：(a)受控和可重复的实验，这将极大地帮助我们提高对复杂的大规模网络的科学理解；(b) ？在野外？在今天的基础上或与今天相连的实验性服务的试验？互联网，并吸引了大量的人类参与者。GENI将为这两种形式的实验提供优秀的仪器，以及必要的数据存档和分析工具。2007年中期，美国国家科学基金会授予BBN技术公司GENI项目办公室（GPO）角色，GENI进入原型设计阶段。现在，经过几年的社区原型设计，一些有趣的研究实验正在全国范围内进行。GENI原型，由支持GENI的商业设备构建，横跨14个美国校园和两个国家研究骨干（Internet2， NLR）。GENI是通过支持现有的测试平台、校园、区域和骨干网络、云计算服务和商用设备来构建的。然后，GENI可以将这些网络和服务联合起来，而不是为实验研究构建和运营一套单独的基础设施。该奖项将资助GENI项目直至其完成。在此期间，GENI项目办公室将：完成从建立GENI到使用GENI进行研究实验的过渡；分阶段开展全职的联合GENI业务，以支持这一正在兴起的实验；长成一个？在规模?数百个校园和网络，甚至一个或多个城市的基础设施套件；向社区治理过渡；并关闭GENI项目办公室。

The Global Environment for Network Innovations? GENI ? is a suite of research infrastructure rapidly taking shape in prototype form across the United States. GENI aims to transform experimental research in networking and distributed systems, as well as emerging research into very large socio-technical systems, by providing a suite of infrastructure for ?at scale? experiments in future internets.GENI supports two types of experiments: (a) controlled and repeatable experiments, which will greatly help improve our scientific understanding of complex, large-scale networks; and (b) ?in the wild? trials of experimental services that ride atop or connect to today?s Internet and that engage large numbers of human participants. GENI will provide excellent instrumentation for both forms of experiments, as well as the requisite data archival and analysis tools.GENI entered its prototyping phase in mid 2007 as NSF awarded the GENI Project Office (GPO) role to BBN Technologies. Now, after several years of community prototyping, a number of interesting research experiments are running across the nationwide ?meso-scale? GENI prototype, built from GENI-enabled commercial equipment, that spans 14 US campuses and the two national research backbones (Internet2, NLR). GENI is being built by GENI-enabling existing testbeds, campuses, regional and backbone networks, cloud computation services, and commercial equipment. GENI can then incorporate these networks and services by federation, rather than constructing and operating a separate set of infrastructure for experimental research.This award will fund the GENI project through its completion. During this period, the GENI Project Office will: Complete the transition from building GENI to using GENI for research experimentation;Phase in full-time, federated GENI operations to support this rising experimentation; Grow to an ?at scale? suite of infrastructure in hundreds of campuses and networks, and perhaps even one or more cities; Transition to community governance; and Wind down the GENI Project Office.