Clemson University is part of a consortium of universities that will receive $10 million to fund the development of a flexible scientific cloud architecture that will support the national research community.
The National Science Foundation-funded project, “CloudLab: Flexible Scientific Infrastructure to Support Fundamental Advances in Cloud Architectures and Applications,” is designed to be a large-scale, distributed facility that can support hundreds of different experimental cloud environments for researchers simultaneously. Further, this environment is designed to be a testing and proving ground for researchers who will ultimately develop the next generation of cloud architectures.
The project’s collaborating institutions are led by the University of Utah and include Clemson, the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, the University of Wisconsin, Raytheon BBN Technologies and the US Ignite project.
It is focused on providing the necessary resources for researchers to build their own cloud environments specifically tailored to their scientific and research applications that enable the exploration of fundamental science in the cloud. The cloud architecture research enabled by CloudLab will empower a new generation of applications and services that bring direct benefits to the public in such critically important fields as medicine, smart electric grids and natural disaster early warning and response.