NSF Award Search: Award # 1743363 - CloudLab Phase II: Community Infrastructure To Expand the Frontiers of Cloud Computing Research

National Science Foundation

Award Abstract # 1743363

CloudLab Phase II: Community Infrastructure To Expand the Frontiers of Cloud Computing Research

NSF Org:	CNS Division Of Computer and Network Systems
Awardee:	UNIVERSITY OF UTAH, THE
Initial Amendment Date:	July 24, 2017
Latest Amendment Date:	November 19, 2021
Award Number:	1743363
Award Instrument:	Cooperative Agreement
Program Manager:	Deepankar Medhi dmedhi@nsf.gov (703)292-2935 CNS Division Of Computer and Network Systems CSE Direct For Computer & Info Scie & Enginr
Start Date:	October 1, 2017
End Date:	September 30, 2022 (Estimated)
Total Intended Award Amount:	$9,688,325.00
Total Awarded Amount to Date:	$9,688,325.00
Funds Obligated to Date:	FY 2017 = $5,833,587.00 FY 2018 = $2,558,508.00 FY 2019 = $1,296,230.00
History of Investigator:	Robert Ricci (Principal Investigator) ricci@cs.utah.edu Kuang-Ching Wang (Co-Principal Investigator) Aditya Akella (Co-Principal Investigator) Michael Zink (Co-Principal Investigator) Glenn Ricart (Co-Principal Investigator)
Awardee Sponsored Research Office:	University of Utah 201 PRESIDENTS CIR SALT LAKE CITY UT US 84112-9049 (801)581-6903
Sponsor Congressional District:	02
Primary Place of Performance:	University of Utah 50 CENTRAL CAMPUS DR SALT LAKE CITY UT US 84112-9205
Primary Place of Performance Congressional District:	02
Unique Entity Identifier (UEI):	LL8GLEVH6MG3
Parent UEI:	LL8GLEVH6MG3
NSF Program(s):	CISE Research Resources
Primary Program Source:	040100 NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT 040100 NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT 040100 NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT
Program Reference Code(s):	8002
Program Element Code(s):	2890
Award Agency Code:	4900
Fund Agency Code:	4900
Assistance Listing Number(s):	47.070

ABSTRACT

This project seeks to extend the capabilities and capacity of the Cloudlab compute cloud in the second phase of the NSFCloud program. Since CloudLab began service in mid-2015, this experimental research infrastructure has become a critical experimental resource for the computer science research community. CloudLab has served over 2,000 users in over 39,000 experiments spanning more than 400 projects, with experimenters coming from nearly every state. The Cloudlab project continues to increase its support of computing for the domain science research communities, and support of technology transfers to commercial cloud technology providers and users.

The proposed Phase II activity seeks to expand the testbed capacity and capabilities through 11 enumerated hardware and software extensions to satisfy the growing needs of leading computer science systems researchers. The three major areas of new technology investments are in 1) new cloud networking technology, 2) support for new cloud architectures, and 3) increased programmability in cloud network data planes.

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Duplyakin, Dmitry and Uta, Alexandru and Maricq, Aleksander and Ricci, Robert "In Datacenter Performance, The Only Constant Is Change" Proceedings of the Twentieth IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid , 2020 Citation Details

Duplyakin, Dmitry and Uta, Alexandru and Maricq, Aleksander and Ricci, Robert "On Studying CPU Performance of CloudLab Hardware" Proceedings of the Worksop on Midscale Education and Research Infrastructure and Tools (MERIT) , 2019 https://doi.org/10.1109/ICNP.2019.8888128 Citation Details

Uta, Alexandru and Custura, Alexandru and Duplyakin, Dmitry and Jimenez, Ivo and Rellermeyer, Jan and Maltzahn, Carlos and Ricci, Robert and Iosup, Alexandru "Is Big Data Performance Reproducible in Modern Cloud Networks?" Proceedings of the Seventeenth USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI) , 2029 Citation Details

Maricq, A and Duplyakin, D and Jimenez, I and Maltzahn, C and Stutsman, R and Ricci, R "Taming Performance Variability" Proceedings of the 13th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI ?18) , 2018 Citation Details

Duplyakin, D and Ricci, R and Maricq, M and Wong, G and Duerig, J and Eide, E and Stoller, L and Hibler, M and Johnson, D and Webb, K and Akella, A and Wang, K and Ricart, G and Landweber, L and Elliott, C and Zink, M and Cecchet, E and Kar, S and and Mis "The Design and Operation of CloudLab" The Design and Operation of CloudLab , 2019 Citation Details

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