Planning Grant: I/UCRC for Center for Cloud and Autonomic Computing site at University of Chicago

拟议的规划活动旨在规划在芝加哥大学现有的云和自主计算中心建立一个新的工业/大学合作研究中心（I/UCRC）。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。芝加哥大学的场地打算为该中心提供额外的功能。该网站旨在探索共同努力，以加速对基础设施云计算（也称为基础设施即服务或IaaS云计算）的理解，以及它对科学界的潜力，并将这种理解转化为行业解决方案。计划中的站点与现有的中心计划相结合，有助于建立云计算的创新能力。该中心的成果有可能通过对分布式计算系统的影响，对公共和私营部门产生广泛的影响，而分布式计算系统目前对科学、工程、医疗保健、金融服务、交通运输以及指挥和控制系统等一系列应用至关重要。该网站计划通过各种机制对学生产生重大影响，包括谷歌赞助的“代码之夏”项目、私人项目总监参与的阿贡国家实验室（Argonne）计算机、环境和生命科学组织中的女性以及教育工具的开发。

The proposed planning activity seeks to undertake planning of the establishment of a new Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC) site at the University of Chicago 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 University of Chicago site intends to provide additional capabilities for the center. The site intends to explore joint efforts to accelerate the understanding of infrastructure cloud computing (also known as Infrastructure-as-a-Service or IaaS cloud computing), its potential for scientific community and to transfer this understanding into industry solutions.The planned site, in combination with the existing center plans to help build innovation capacity in cloud computing. The outcomes from the center have the potential to broadly impact the public and private sectors through impact on distributed computing systems which today are critical to a range of applications crucial to science, engineering, healthcare, financial services, transportation, and command and control systems. The site plans to have a significant impact on students via mechanisms including the Google-sponsored Summer of Code Program, the PIs involvement in Women in the Computing, Environment and Life Science organization at Argonne and development of tools for education.