Acknowledgements
Open Cloud Testbed (OCT) is funded by by National Science Foundation grant CNS-1925658, a CISE Computer Research Infrastructure award. The authors would like to thank the many researchers involved with OCT, especially Peter Desnoyers, Martin Herbordt, Orran Krieger and David Irwin. We would also like to thank the industry partners of MOC, and OCT, and especially Xilinx Inc. for their generous donations to OCT in support of this project.
Miriam Leeser is a Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northeastern where she is head of the Reconfigurable Computing Laboratory. She is a member of the Computer Engineering research group. Her research includes using heterogeneous architectures from the cloud to the edge with applications in data privacy and wireless communications. She is a senior member of the IEEE and of the ACM. Contact her at
mel@coe.neu.edu.
Suranga Handagala is an FPGA Engineer at Khoury College of Computer Sciences. He has a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Northeastern University. Contact him at
s.handagala@northeastern.edu.
Michael Zink is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UMass Amherst. He is a member of the Computer Engineering group that focuses on internet and sensing systems. His research focuses on Cyberinfrastructure, IoT, and Multimedia Systems. He is a senior member of the IEEE and the ACM. Contact him at
zink@ecs.umass.edu.