Workshop on Next Generation Cloud Research Infrastructure

云计算研究基础设施（CRI）为计算和网络系统研究人员提供了一个环境，以主持他们的科学实验，以推进知识和教育下一代系统研究人员。系统研究界广泛依赖于美国国家科学基金会（NSF）支持的计算研究基础设施来推进当今商业云系统的底层技术，包括计算机和网络虚拟化、基础设施即服务部署、高级编程模型和软件堆栈以及软件定义网络。近年来，商业计算云也在迅速发展，并有望在加速科学研究方面发挥持续和日益重要的作用。研究人员和教育工作者可以并且确实利用这些云平台来加速和改进他们的研究和教学，补充他们对专业CRI系统的使用。考虑到研究社区实验需求的演变和商业云产品的快速发展，计算研究社区面临着定期评估其推进科学所需的专业研究基础设施的需求。这个项目似乎召集了研究团体，就nsf支持的云研究基础设施的未来方向进行对话。本次研讨会将汇集来自学术界、工业界和政府的代表，共同阐述推进云研究基础设施的研究议程。为期两天的研讨会计划于2019年11月在新泽西州普林斯顿举行。该项目还将通过调查更广泛的计算和网络研究社区，了解他们当前和未来对云计算基础设施的使用和期望，来补充研讨会的成果。研讨会将寻求实现以下目标：1)召集关键的云研究基础设施利益相关者，评估学术云研究基础设施的现状，及其在商业云产品不断发展的学术使用背景下的作用；2)为基础设施开发人员和实验人员提供一个论坛，就云基础设施的未来方向进行客观和建设性的对话。行业参与者——主要来自商业云技术提供商和公共云运营商——将被邀请分享他们对公共基础设施在推进科学方面的补充作用的看法，以及他们预期的技术要求；3)允许研究人员交换有关系统需求的信息，以解决他们未来的研究实验，并评估云研究基础设施可以和将对商业云产品产生的当前和未来影响；4)就如何进一步发展和加强劳动力队伍交换意见，为推进对美国经济日益重要的大规模云计算平台做出贡献。讲习班结束后，将编写和分发报告，以便与更广泛的系统研究界分享调查结果和调查结果。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Cloud Computing Research Infrastructure (CRI) provides an environment for computing and networking systems researchers to host their scientific experiments to advance knowledge and to educate the next generation of systems researchers. The systems research community has relied extensively on National Science Foundation (NSF)-supported computing research infrastructures to advance technologies underlying today's commercial cloud systems including computer and network virtualization, Infrastructure-as-a Service deployments, advanced programming models and software stacks, and software defined networks. Commercial compute clouds have also evolved rapidly in recent years, and promise to play a continued and growing role in accelerating scientific research. Researchers and educators can and do leverage these cloud platforms to accelerate and improve their research and teaching, complementing their use of specialized CRI systems. Given the evolution of research community experimental requirements and the rapid evolution of commercial cloud offerings, the computing research community faces the need to periodically assess the specialized research infrastructure it needs to advance science. This project seems to convene the research community to engage in a dialogue about future directions for NSF-supported cloud research infrastructures.The proposed workshop will bring representatives from academia, industry, and government to articulate a research agenda for advancing cloud research infrastructure. The two day workshop is planned for November, 2019, in Princeton, New Jersey. The project will also seek to supplement the workshop findings by surveying the broader computing and networking research community about their current and future use and expectations of cloud computing infrastructures. The workshop will seek to realize the following goals:1) convene key cloud research infrastructure stakeholders to evaluate the current state of academic cloud research infrastructure, and its role in the context of evolving academic use of commercial cloud offerings;2) provide a forum for infrastructure developers and experimenters to meet and engage in objective and constructive dialog about future directions for cloud infrastructure. Industry participants -- primarily from commercial cloud technology providers and public cloud operators -- will be invited to share their views about the complementary role of public infrastructure to advance science, and their anticipated technology requirements;3) allow researchers to exchange information about system needs to address their future research experiments, and assess the current and future impact that cloud research infrastructures can and will have on commercial cloud offerings; and4) exchange ideas on how to further develop and strengthen a workforce ready to contribute to the advancement of the large-scale cloud-based platforms that are increasingly central to the US economy.Following the workshop, report will be written and disseminated to share findings and survey results with the broader systems research community.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.