Collaborative Research: Towards Unified Cloud Computing and Management

自主计算中心(CAC)提案#1127965该提案寻求为佛罗里达大学(Lead)、罗格斯大学、亚利桑那大学和密西西比州立大学的自主计算中心(CAC)站点提供资金。基础研究的资金申请由NSF批准的请愿书授权，NSF 10-601。征集邀请研究所/大学合作研究中心提交支持行业定义的基础研究的建议。统一的云计算环境能够随时随地访问无限的计算资源，这仍然是一个理想的选择，因为当前的环境中，不同的资源分布在不同的地理位置，由非常不同的服务提供商提供。拟议的工作涵盖了四个中心地点的专业知识和能力。该工作旨在通过热感应和基于模型的自适应性能控制，将自主计算原则应用于解决安全、云间网络和资源配置等要素，以创建一个实现和管理可信赖的统一云计算环境的框架。云计算模式的发展有可能使用户获得信息技术的方式发生变革性的变化，从而使经济生产力和获得广泛的新服务的机会获得重大进展。拟议的中心工作与一家小型成员公司和大型系统集成商成员合作。行业将通过中心成员资格的传播和中心项目组合的扩展而进一步受益？S项目组合将进入该领域。云计算中心从拟议的努力中可能实现的效率收益有可能降低整个系统的能源成本。这项工作计划将跨CAC站点部署的分布式云环境结合在一起，为研究和开发云间互操作性建立一个开放的试验台，该平台有可能成为更广泛社区在这一重要领域工作的资源。

Center for Autonomic Computing (CAC)Proposal #1127965This proposal seeks funding for the Center for Autonomic Computing (CAC) sites at the University of Florida (lead), Rutgers University, the University of Arizona, and Mississippi State University. Funding Requests for Fundamental Research are authorized by an NSF approved solicitation, NSF 10-601. The solicitation invites I/UCRCs to submit proposals for support of industry-defined fundamental research. A unified cloud computing environment enabling anytime, anyplace access to limitless computing resources still represents an ideal given the current environment of heterogeneous resources distributed geographically and offered by vastly different service providers. The proposed effort spans the expertise and capabilities of the four center sites. The work aims to apply autonomic computing principles to address elements such as security, inter-cloud networking, and resource provisioning via thermal sensing and model-based adaptive performance control in order to create a framework for realization and management of trustworthy unified cloud computing environments. Results will be derived from the implementation of the proposed approaches on a planned distributed cloud testbed.Advancement of the cloud computing paradigm has the potential to enable transformative change to user access to information technology enabling major advances in economic productivity and access to a broad range of new services. The proposed center effort works with a small member company and large systems integrator member. Industry will further benefit via dissemination of the results through the center membership and the extension of the center?s project portfolio into this area. Efficiency gains potentially realized at cloud computer centers from the proposed efforts has the potential to reduce energy costs system wide. The work plans to bring together a distributed cloud environment deployed across CAC sites to establish an open testbed for research and development of inter-cloud interoperability that has the potential to serve as a resource for the work of the broader community in this important area.