CC* Integration: Regional Embedded Cloud for As-a-Service Transformation (RECAST)

科学dmz （SDMZ）已广泛应用于研究和教育网络社区，并被公认为支持网络基础设施和大数据应用的全球最佳实践。尽管在性能、安全和管理方面进行了创新，sdmz仍然专注于支持大数据项目和网络基础设施。创建物理的“磁盘对磁盘”或虚拟的“科学家对科学家”连接仍然很困难。研究人员对一类新兴的混合服务越来越感兴趣，这些混合服务集中在交钥匙、按需集成私有/公共云、网络基础设施、科学资源和高性能网络上。RECAST项目将开发和部署基于区域的软件定义科学mz (SD-SDMZ)，作为提供包括传统数据传输功能在内的灵活边缘服务的机制。RECAST利用最先进的云和软件定义网络技术，将SDMZ（历史上专注于高速数据传输）转变为软件定义基础设施，以完全虚拟化、可编程和编排的方式提供计算和网络服务。这种“云化SDMZ”基于与现代数据中心中使用的技术类似的技术，将提供可扩展的多租户环境，其中每个用户或用户组可以分配专用资源，并以隔离、独立和弹性的方式使用资源。将该资源嵌入马里兰大学中大西洋十字路口区域网络将使SD-SDMZ能够利用丰富的连接性来推进网络基础设施，以提供这些新的先进服务。

Science DMZs (SDMZ) have been widely deployed in the Research and Education networking community and recognizedas a global best practice for supporting cyberinfrastructure and big data applications. Despite innovationsin performance, security, and management, the SDMZs remain focused on thesupport of big data projects and cyberinfrastructure. It remains difficult to create physical "diskto disk" or virtual "scientist to scientist" connections. Researchers are increasingly interestedin an emerging class of hybrid services focused on turnkey, on-demand integration of private/publicclouds, cyberinfrastructure, scientific resources, and high performance networks.The RECAST project will develop and deploy a regional based Software Defined ScienceDMZ (SD-SDMZ) as a mechanism to provide flexible edge services that include traditional datatransfer functions. RECAST leverages state-of-the-art Cloud and Software-defined networking technologies to transforman SDMZ -- that was historically focused on high-speed data transfer -- into a Software Defined Infrastructure that offerscompute and network services in a fully virtualized, programmable and orchestrated fashion. Built upon technologies similar to thoseused in modern data centers, this "cloudified SDMZ" will provide a scalable, multi-tenant environment, whereeach user or user group can allocate dedicated resources and use the resources in an isolated,Independent, and elastic fashion. Embedding this resource in the University of Maryland Mid-AtlanticCrossroads regional network will allow the SD-SDMZ to leverage rich connectivity to advancecyberinfrastructure to provide these new and advanced services.