GENI D&P Solicitation 4

GENI，即全球网络创新环境，是一套研究基础设施，在美国各地迅速形成原型。GENI旨在通过为未来互联网的“大规模”实验提供一套基础设施，将网络和分布式系统的实验研究以及新兴研究转化为非常大的社会技术系统。全国范围内的实验于2010年夏天开始。在这期间的三年中，实验研究人员对GENI的采用显示出快速增长，目前正在向50多个支持GENI的校园扩展。该项目将实施四个协调的重点，巩固GENI的重要成果，并在“大规模”部署阶段推进GENI的成熟度。这项工作使GENI具有可维护性、可扩展性和广泛的研究可用性，并激励GENI社区保持推动GENI向前发展的强大增长势头。*构建和部署实验工具，使GENI更容易用于不断增长的社区。*创建流程和制度，将GENI带入未来。*拉伸和测试GENI的实验能力。*通过与产品开发商和服务提供商合作，以及将基于GENI的课程引入学院和大学课堂，通过直接参与使GENI与他们的工作相关，向行业、研究领导者和学生介绍GENI。GENI允许学术和工业研究人员进行一类新的实验，以解决全球通信网络中至关重要的问题，例如我们理解或预测复杂大规模网络行为的能力，与当前互联网创新障碍相关的问题，以及与关键基础设施所需的弹性和信任相关的问题。GENI作为部署和管理自定义计算和通信组合的系统原型而出现。因此，它有可能成为下一代商业网络基础设施的典范。

GENI, the Global Environment for Network Innovations, is a suite of research infrastructure rapidly taking shape in prototype form across the United States. GENI aims to transform experimental research in networking and distributed systems, as well as emerging research into very large social-technical systems, by providing a suite of infrastructure for "at scale" experiments in future internets. Nationwide experiments began in Summer 2010. In the intervening three years, GENI has shown rapid growth in adoption by experimental researchers and is now expanding to over 50 GENI-enabled campuses.This project will implement four coordinated thrusts that consolidate important GENI gains and advance the maturity of GENI as it progresses through its "at scale" deployment phase. This work positions GENI to be maintainable, expandable, and broadly usable for research and energizes the GENI community to sustain the powerful growth momentum that is carrying GENI forward.* Build and deploy experimenter tools that make GENI easier to use for a growing community. * Create processes and institutions to carry GENI into the future. * Stretch and test GENI's experimental capabilities. * Introduce GENI to industry, research leaders, and students through direct engagements that make GENI relevant in their work by partnering with product developers and service providers and by bringing GENI-based curriculum into college and university classrooms.GENI allows academic and industrial researchers to perform a new class of experiments that tackle critically important issues in global communications networks, issues such as our ability to understand or predict the behavior of complex, large-scale networks, issues associated with the barriers to innovation in the current Internet, and issues related to the resilience and trust needed of our critical infrastructures. GENI is emerging as the prototype of a system for deploying and managing custom combinations of computation and communication. As such it is potentially a model for the next generation of commercial network infrastructure.