MRI: Acquisition of GatorCloud: Enabling High-Impact Scientific Research and Collaboration via Software Defined Networks and Cloud Services

MRI：收购GatorCloud：通过软件定义的网络和云服务实现高影响力的科学研究和协作摘要网络基础设施从根本上改变了许多学科的格局，成为下一次革命的变革引擎。我们提出GatorCloud网络基础设施，将校园科研网络大幅提升为连接全校多个数据中心主站的100 Gb/S骨干网络，并通过尖端的软件定义网络能力和新颖的云服务进一步增强。更多的SDN交换机将部署在佛罗里达州LambdaRail(FLR)的多个地点。GatorCloud将加强佛罗里达州对高影响力国内和国际项目的参与，例如最近发现希格斯玻色子的CMS实验、开放科学网格、全球网络创新环境(GENI)、开普勒和未来网格。这些项目涉及TB到PB的存储，并需要TB到PB级的计算。有了GatorCloud，UF可以为研究人员及其合作者提供变革性的能力和服务，满足全球TB级数据吞吐量的需求。GatorCloud是首个支持SDN的园区云计划，提供新的云服务，如HPC即服务(HPCaaS)、网络即服务(NAAS)和云中云即服务(CCaaS)。它将对塑造网络基础设施的未来产生变革性的影响。它为计算机科学和工程的前沿研究提供了生产级环境，例如云计算和存储、网络、生物信息学、多媒体、数据挖掘、网络物理系统以及并行和分布式计算。它为UF及其合作伙伴提供了一个独特的跨学科资源，以培训和教育许多相关课程和研究项目的研究生和本科生。

MRI: Acquisition of GatorCloud: Enabling High-Impact Scientific Research and Collaboration via Software-Defined Networks and Cloud ServicesAbstractCyberinfrastructure has fundamentally transformed the landscape of many disciplines, becoming the engine of change for the next revolution. We propose the GatorCloud cyberinfrastructure to dramatically boost the Campus Research Network (CRN) to over 100Gb/s backbone networks connecting multiple primary sites of data centers across the campus and further enhance it with the cutting-edge software-defined networking (SDN) capabilities and novel cloud services. Additional SDN switches will be deployed across multiple sites of the Florida LambdaRail (FLR).GatorCloud will strengthen Florida's participation in high-impact national and international projects, such as the CMS experiment that recently discovered the Higgs boson, the Open Science Grid, the Global Environment for Network Innovations (GENI), Kepler, and FutureGrid. These projects involve terabyte to petabyte storage and require terascale to petascale computations. With GatorCloud, UF can serve the needs of terabyte data throughput around the world for researchers and their collaborators with transformative capabilities and services. GatorCloud is the first SDN-enabled campus cloud initiative, offering novel cloud services, such as HPC as a Service (HPCaaS), Network as a Service (NaaS), and Cloud-in-Cloud as a Service (CCaaS). It will have transformative impact on shaping the future of cyberinfrastructure. It provides a production-level environment for research in the forefront of computer science and engineering, e.g., cloud computing and storage, networking, bioinformatics, multimedia, data mining, cyber-physical systems, and parallel and distributed computing. It offers a unique interdisciplinary resource for UF and its partners to train and educate graduate and undergraduate students in many related courses and research projects.