Planning Grant: I/UCRC for joining Center for Cloud and Autonomic Computing

拟议的规划活动旨在对在印第安纳大学建立一个新的工业/大学合作研究中心(I/UCRC)进行规划，以建立现有的云和自主计算中心。该中心目前涉及亚利桑那州、佛罗里达州、密西西比州和罗格斯大学，以及该领域的行业和政府合作伙伴。印第安纳大学的网站打算为该中心提供额外的能力，以涵盖基本的云基础设施领域，包括支持FutureGrid试验床、安全、网络、存储、编程模型和应用程序的工具。该网站旨在探索云支持科学研究的效用，包括基础设施工具和创新的开发，包括MapReduce编程模型的扩展，识别适用于云的科学应用程序，云上健康信息学的隐私保护算法，高性能网络和数据架构的集成。计划中的网站与现有中心计划相结合，通过与行业合作定义的关键挑战研究，帮助建设云计算及其支持科学和工程的创新能力。该中心的结果有可能广泛影响公共和私营部门。该网站计划对本科生和研究生的课程和学生培训产生重大影响。计划中的地点打算通过现有的财团积极接触少数群体服务机构。

The proposed planning activity seeks to undertake planning of the establishment of a new Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC) site at Indiana University of the existing Center for Cloud and Autonomic Computing. The center currently involves Arizona, Florida, Mississippi State and Rutgers, and industry and government partners in the field. The Indiana University site intends to provide additional capabilities for the center to cover the areas of basic cloud infrastructure including tools to support the FutureGrid testbed, security, networking, storage, programming models and applications. The site intends to explore the utility of clouds to support scientific research including infrastructure tools and development of innovations in extensions of the MapReduce programming model, identification of science applications suitable for clouds, privacy preserving algorithms for health informatics on clouds, integration of high performance networking and data architectures.The planned site, in combination with the existing center plans to help build innovation capacity in cloud computing and its supporting science and engineering through cooperatively defined research on key challenges with industry. The outcomes from the center have the potential to broadly impact the public and private sectors. The site plans to have a significant impact on curriculum and student training at the undergraduate and graduate levels. The planned site intends to actively engage in outreach to Minority Serving Institutions through existing consortia.