NSFCloud Workshop: Experimental Support for Cloud Computing

NSFCloud征集成立于2013年，是NSF CISE研究基础设施（CRI）计划的一部分，旨在提供一个实验平台，使学术研究界能够推动新一代云计算和云计算架构创新应用的研究。虽然这项工作旨在建立在之前的NSF投资，如GENI和FutureGrid测试平台，但它的独特之处在于它专门针对云计算领域，并寻求支持和整合该领域的研究与系统，网络和网络物理系统（CPS）研究的创新解决方案，从而定义未来的广泛研究议程。NSF正在颁发NSFCloud奖项，随着这些项目的开始，研究界和实验平台提供商之间的对话至关重要，双方应详细说明各自的期望和能力。为了启动这种对话，该项目为研讨会提供支持，其主要目标是（1）向CISE研究社区提供早期信息，了解资助的NSFCloud项目所采取的提供实验平台的方法;以及（2）提供一个论坛，讨论CISE社区的实验要求，从而为社区反馈和改进这些计划提供机会。作为这些目标的延伸，研讨会提供了测试平台提供商和他们将服务的研究社区之间的沟通渠道的持久开放，并探讨了合作和协同作用，这将使这种关系有效和充实。本次研讨会征求CISE研究社区的参与，该社区将依赖NSFCloud项目来支持他们的实验需求以及NSFCloud团队本身。组织者从两个群体中招募少数服务机构（MSI）的参与者。社区的参与有助于确保测试平台在交付给社区时具有相关能力，预期的研究项目具有针对性，并且MSI社区可以使用这些设施。研讨会的结果指导了与NSFCloud提案相关的实验平台开发和社区推广。

The NSFCloud solicitation was established in 2013 as a track within the NSF CISE Research Infrastructure (CRI) program with the objective to provide an experimental platform enabling the academic research community to drive research on a new generation of innovative applications of cloud computing and cloud computing architectures. While this effort seeks to build on prior NSF investments, such as the GENI and FutureGrid testbeds, it is unique in that it targets specifically the field of cloud computing and seeks to support and integrate research in this area with innovate solutions in systems, networking, and cyber-physical system (CPS) research and thereby define a broad research agenda of the future. NSF is making NSFCloud awards, and as these projects begin, it is critical that a dialogue be initiated between the research community and the experimental platform providers, detailing the expectations on one side and capabilities on the other. To initiate such dialogue, this project provides support for a workshop whose principal objectives are to (1) provide early information to the CISE research community about the approach to providing an experimental platform taken by the funded NSFCloud projects; and (2) provide a forum for a discussion of the experimental requirements of the CISE community and thus provide an opportunity for community feedback and refinement of those plans. As an extension of these objectives, the workshop provides a lasting opening of the communication channels between the testbed providers and the research community they will serve, and explores collaborations and synergies that will make this relationship efficient and fulfilling. This workshop solicits participation from the CISE research community that will rely on the NSFCloud projects for the support of their experimental needs as well as the NSFCloud teams themselves. The organizers engage minority serving institution (MSI) participants from both groups. The participation by the community helps ensure that the testbeds, when delivered to the community, will have the relevant capabilities, that the intended research projects are targeted, and that the facilities are accessible to MSI communities. The results of the workshop guide the experimental platform development and community outreach related to the NSFCloud proposal.