About New Direction
Center for Research in Composable Infrastructure (CRCI): Vision & Goals
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Purpose: perform research on the virtualization, software definition and integration of compute, storage and networking systems with a focus on cloud-edge computing and big data use cases.
- Establish UMN CRCI in 2021 strategically aligned with Texas A&M and Temple with two objectives:
- “Full Speed Ahead” with UMN CRCI research in 2021 (10+ PhD students)
- NSF IUCRC approval in 2022
- Submit CRCI proposal to NSF in 2022 (UMN, Texas A&M & Temple)
- Research theme will be refined based upon members’ interests
- Preliminary proposal in March & full proposal in June
CRCI Structure & Operations Proposal
- Building upon CRIS
- Same operating model & member benefits
- Six UMN computer science faculty specializing in: mobile & cloud systems & applications; computing, networking & data storage architectures
- David Du, Zhi-Li Zhang, Jon Weissman, Mohamed Mokbel, Abhishek Chandra & Feng Qian
- Advising a pool of roughly three dozen PhD students
- Goal: recruit six member companies in 2021/2022
CRCI Member Benefits
- Supplement your company’s basic research effort in developing & transferring knowledge
- Support development of & access for recruiting future scientists & engineers
- Collaboration with a PI & student to define & direct a research project
- Member pays $50K per year
- Non-exclusive, royalty free license for all IP
- Attend:
- Bi-annual IAB meetings to review all projects, assess/influence Center direction & network with industry colleagues
- Bi-annual virtual interim IAB meetings to review/recommend new research proposals & assess/influence Center direction
- Annual workshop on Composable Infrastructure trends