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Author: Dr. Deep Medhi
Dr. Deep Medhi is a program director in the computer and network systems (CNS) division at the National Science Foundation (NSF). He manages networking research programs in the Networking Technologies and Systems (NeTS) cluster in CNS as well as several infrastructure programs such as NSFFutureCloud, Mid-Scale Research Infrastructure, and Cloud Access. He is also a Curators’ distinguished professor in the department of computer science and electrical engineering at the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC). Prior to UMKC in 1989, he was a member of the technical staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories where he worked on teletraffic network routing, design and co-developed facility diverse routing, a feature deployed in AT&T's nationwide dynamic routing network. He co-authored the books, Routing, Flow, and Capacity Design in Communication and Computer Networks(2004) and Network Routing: Algorithms, Protocols, and Architectures(1st edition, 2007; 2nd edition, 2017), both published by Morgan Kauffman/Elsevier. He is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
Simplifying access to cloud resources for researchers: CloudBank
To better support the growing use of cloud computing resources with increasing data- and compute-intensive research and education workloads, the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) announced the Cloud Access solicitation in September 2018. The NSF, through its competitive merit review process, selected CloudBank. Researchers that use CloudBank gain access to advanced hardware resources such as CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs, ASICs, and quantum processing units (QPUs). In addition, CloudBank offers proposal assistance, facilitated cloud access and account management, monitoring and resource usage optimization, and eliminates university overhead/indirect costs, and provides curated training materials, classroom, and help desk support.