HPNC: High-Performance Science Education and Research Project

HPNC：高性能科学教育与研究项目

• 批准号: 0228937
• 负责人: Robert Semper
• 金额: $ 14.47万
• 依托单位: Exploratorium
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-10-01 至 2006-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0228937&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: HPNC; Performance; Science; Education; Research

The Exploratorium will conduct a two-year project to establish and maintain a High Performance Network Connection (HPNC) to the national Abilene/Internet2 backbone through an affiliation with the Corporation for Education Network Initiatives in California (CENIC), the statewide Abilene Participant organization. The HPNC will enable the Exploratorium to expand its media-based and museum-based educational programs to include high-bandwidth IPvideo transmission, MPEG2video/audio streaming, transmission of high-resolution imagery, real-time data mining and manipulation, remote videoconferencing, and other multimedia applications requiring a DS-3 (45mbps) connection. The project will involve using existing fiber and equipment requiring minimal upgrades to connect the Exploratorium's Palace of Fine Arts building to the California Research and Education Network (Cal-REN2) POP in Sunnyvale, Calif., which serves as a port to the Abilene/Internet2 backbone. The installation and connectivity project has been planned in collaboration with CENIC, which is in the process of linking K-20 educational institutions throughout California to an optic network. CENIC's sponsorship of the Exploratorium will strengthen the museum's ties to the educational technology community and increase access to the museum's extensive educational programming to schools and colleges throughout the Abilene/I2 network. The HPNC will provide the Exploratorium with access to high-bandwidth connections to partner research organizations, such as CERN, JPL, and NASA, who participate in Exploratorium Webcasts and remote educational programs. The programs produced will be made available over the Cal-REN2 and Abilene/Internet2 networks to participating educational institutions and researchers, including the schools linked to the CENIC Digital California Project, the Pacific Lighthouse Project, and the I2K20 Initiative. The HPNC will further the impact and reach of existing, federally supported Exploratorium programs such as Origins, a three-year series of NSF-supported Webcasts from remote science research stations; the Microscope Imaging Station, an NIH-funded state-of-the-art microscopy station in the museum's wet biology lab; and Eclipses and Observatories, the Exploratorium's ongoing production of remote Webcasts in partnership with the NASA Sun-Earth Connection Education Forum.

Exploratorium将开展一个为期两年的项目，通过与全州阿比林参与者组织--加州教育网络倡议公司（CENIC）的附属机构，建立和维护与国家阿比林/Internet 2主干网的高性能网络连接（HPNC）。 HPNC将使Exploratorium能够扩展其基于媒体和基于博物馆的教育计划，包括高带宽IP视频传输、MPEG 2视频/音频流、高分辨率图像传输、实时数据挖掘和处理、远程视频会议以及其他需要DS-3（45 Mbps）连接的多媒体应用。 该项目将涉及使用现有的光纤和设备，需要最低限度的升级，以连接探索博物馆的美术宫建筑到加州研究和教育网络（Cal-REN 2）POP在桑尼维尔，加利福尼亚州，它充当到Abilene/Internet 2骨干网的端口。 安装和连接项目是与CENIC合作规划的，CENIC正在将整个加州的K-20教育机构连接到光纤网络。 CENIC对Exploratorium的赞助将加强博物馆与教育技术界的联系，并增加整个Abilene/I2网络的学校和学院对博物馆广泛教育计划的访问。 HPNC将为Exploratorium提供与合作研究组织（如CERN，JPL和NASA）的高带宽连接，这些组织参与了Exploratorium网络广播和远程教育计划。制作的节目将通过Cal-REN 2和Abilene/Internet 2网络提供给参与的教育机构和研究人员，包括与CENIC数字加州项目、太平洋灯塔项目和I2 K20倡议有关的学校。HPNC将进一步扩大现有的联邦政府支持的探索馆项目的影响和范围，如起源，一个为期三年的NSF支持的远程科学研究站网络广播系列;显微镜成像站，一个NIH资助的国家最先进的显微镜站在博物馆的湿生物实验室;探索博物馆与美国航天局日地联系教育论坛合作，正在制作远程网播。