II-NEW: BOLD: Big Data and Optical Lightpaths-Driven Networked Systems Research Infrastructure

该项目将部署一个名为BOLD的光网络系统研究基础设施，该基础设施集成了高性能、低功耗、光网络设备和可编程分组交换机，以实现变革和跨学科研究。它可以对不同的建筑设计选择进行实验性探索，并可能提出集成硬件软件设计的新方法。在硬件层面，它可以研究能够提供强大通信能力的新型光网络设备，可能针对大数据应用的特定需求进行定制，以及在实际应用流量下对设备原型进行实验。BOLD实现了广泛的大数据驱动的变革性研究。在系统软件级别，它允许对存储、网络和应用程序控制软件进行研究，这些软件是从头开始设计的，以协调最佳性能。在应用层面，BOLD激励研究如何设计大数据应用的基本算法，以利用新的网络功能。BOLD具有独特的潜力，可以弥合纳米光子学研究人员、网络系统研究人员和大数据应用研究人员之间的差距，创造跨学科的研究机会。此外，由于BOLD计划与Rice？现有的nsf资助的计算基础设施BOLD可以支持大规模的大数据实验。BOLD实现的跨学科研究成果将引领未来的大数据处理系统架构，极大地加快各种计算科学发现的速度。由于光网络设备的独特之处在于它们消耗很少的功率，但可以支持巨大的数据速率，BOLD将激发一类新的高性能，高能效的系统架构。BOLD支持的研究可以通过展示如何利用光网络作为共享云来为未来全国范围的网络基础设施的设计提供信息。资源。BOLD将作为培训和教育众多本科生和研究生的平台，包括代表性不足的群体，进行前沿的大数据驱动研究。

This project will deploy an optically networked systems research infrastructure named BOLD that integrates high-performance, low-power, optical networking devices and programmable packet switches to enable transformative and inter-disciplinary research. It enables experimental exploration of different architectural design choices and it will potentially suggest new approaches to integrated hardware-software designs. At the hardware level, it enables research on novel optical network devices that can provide powerful communication capabilities, possibly tailored to the specific needs of big data applications, as well as experimentation with the device prototypes under real application traffic. BOLD enables a broad range of transformative big data-driven research. At the system software level, it enables research on storage, network, and application control software that are designed from the ground up to coordinate for optimal performance. At the application level, BOLD motivates research on how fundamental algorithms for big data applications should be designed to leverage the new network capabilities. BOLD has the unique potential to bridge the gap between nano-photonics researchers, networked systems researchers, and big data application researchers, creating inter-disciplinary research opportunities. Furthermore, because BOLD is designed to operate alongside Rice?s existing NSF-funded computing infrastructures BOLD can support big data experiments at a substantial scale.Results from the inter-disciplinary research enabled by BOLD will lead to future big data processing system architectures that dramatically speed up a wide range of computational scientific discoveries. Because optical networking devices are unique in that they consume very little power, yet can support enormous data rates, BOLD will inspire a new class of high performance, high energy efficiency system architectures. Research enabled by BOLD could inform the design of future nation-wide networking infrastructures by showing how optical networks can be harnessed as shared ?cloud? resources. BOLD will serve as a platform for the training and education of numerous undergraduate and graduate students, including under-represented groups, in cutting edge big data-driven research.