I/UCRC: Cloud and Autonomic Computing I/UCRC site at Texas Tech University (CAC@TTU)

德克萨斯理工大学（TTU）提议将其作为一个站点添加到现有的I/UCRC云和自主计算（CAC）中。TTU网站将重点关注云标准和基于标准的软件开发创新。它将扩展和加强CAC在云计算最佳实践和标准研究相关领域的活动，包括基于标准的软件、软件堆栈和参考实现的开发和使用，以及现实环境中的工业应用。TTU站点将与最大和最活跃的面向计算的标准开发组织和供应商合作。研究工作将满足组织、分类、开发参考实现的行业需求，并为高级分布式计算中基于标准的软件做出贡献。需要制定适当的行业和社区共识标准并应用这些方法，以利用云计算和其他先进分布式计算新技术提供的变革能力。如果没有在接口标准、算法和技术上的协调，这些方法的许多潜在优势可能会由于方法、协议和应用程序编程接口的混乱多样性而受到损害。TTU网站将利用与pi参与的三个面向外展的组织的联系：(1)TTU STEM教育和外展项目，该大学已获得全国认可；(2)扩展现有的高性能计算中心（HPCC）参与SURAgrid区域网格和云计算教育传播项目（包括与SURAgrid虚拟组织和云计算选项工作组的持续合作）；(3)横跨德克萨斯的高性能计算（HiPCAT）组织，专注于在物理科学中扩大网格和云计算的使用范围。TTU HPCC和pi广泛参与这些项目。该网站将每年举办一次有针对性的讲习班，将历史上代表性不足的人口群体的实践学习经验纳入本提案执行期间将开展的项目，并开展活动，以满足选定的非营利组织在云计算使用中受益的领域的需求。德克萨斯理工大学有许多科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）教育推广项目，这些项目在招收新生和指导来自代表性不足群体的STEM学生方面重叠。pi将利用这些项目加强他们的招聘工作。

Texas Tech University (TTU) is proposing to be added as a site to the existing I/UCRC for Cloud and Autonomic Computing (CAC). TTU site will focus on cloud standards and standards-based software development innovation. It will extend and enhance the activities of the CAC in areas related to cloud computing best practices and standards research, including standards-based software, development and use of software stacks and reference implementations, and industry applications in real-world settings. TTU site will be working with the largest and most active of the computing-oriented Standards Development Organizations and vendors. The research effort will meet the industry need to organize, classify, develop reference implementations and contribute to the standards-based software in advanced distributed computing. Development of appropriate industry- and community-based consensus standards and application of these methods are required to exploit the capacity for transformative change provided by the new techniques for cloud and other advanced distributed computing. Without coordination on interface standards, algorithms and techniques, many potential advantages of these methods may be compromised due to a chaotic multiplicity of approaches, protocols and application programmer interfaces.The TTU site will leverage contacts with three outreach-oriented organizations with which the PIs are involved: (1) the TTU STEM Education & Outreach project for which the university has been nationally recognized; (2) by extensions of the existing High Performance Computing Center (HPCC) involvement in the SURAgrid regional grid and cloud computing educational dissemination project (including ongoing collaborations with the SURAgrid Virtual Organization and Cloud Computing Options Working Group); and (3) the High Performance Computing Across Texas (HiPCAT) organization, which concentrates on broadening access to grid and cloud computing in the physical sciences. The TTU HPCC and the PIs have extensive involvement with each of these programs. The site will develop an annual targeted workshop to integrate hands-on learning experiences for historically under-represented population groups into the projects that will be carried out during the performance period of this proposal, as well as activities to engage with the needs of selected non-profit organizations in areas in which they could benefit from the use of cloud computing. Texas Tech University has a number of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) educational outreach programs that overlap in the area of recruiting new students and in the mentoring of STEM students from underrepresented groups. The PIs will leverage these programs to strengthen their recruitment efforts.