The Taj: A New Model for Global Federated Network Infrastructure for Science and Education

Taj：全球科学和教育联合网络基础设施的新模式

• 批准号: 0943314
• 负责人: Greg Cole
• 金额: $ 229.34万
• 依托单位: University of Tennessee Knoxville
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-08-01 至 2012-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0943314&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Taj; New; Model; Global; Federated

This proposal will be awarded using funds made available by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5), and meets the requirements established in Section 2 of the White House Memorandum entitled, Ensuring Responsible Spending of Recovery Act Funds, dated March 20, 2009.Abstract - The Taj: A New Model for Global Federated Network Infrastructure for Science and EducationGreg Cole, University of TennesseeJerry Sobieski, NORDUnetJun Li, CSTnet, Chinese Academy of SciencesThis two-year $2.3M project will leverage ~$11M in funding and gratis contributions to broadly support the U.S. research, engineering, and educational community and its international collaborators. The project is named the Taj in honor of the significant contributions from the Tata Corporation in India. By dramatically improving network infrastructure around the northern hemisphere, the Taj program promises far-reaching and sustainable benefits in global research and education (R&E) collaboration. The Taj will serve nearly every science discipline and offer a user-focused, performance-based network responsive to demands of a globally integrated, infrastructure aware community of scientists, engineers, teachers, and students. It will enable global open science collaboration in an era of constrained resources via carefully organized collaboration and co-funding with public and private sectors in Europe and Asia. The Taj program is new, yet it efficiently builds on the GLORIAD network infrastructure which connects U.S., China, and Russia, as well as Korea, Canada, Netherlands and the five Nordic countries.The Taj will connect the exchange points in Hong Kong, Singapore, Mumbai, Alexandria (Egypt), and Europe, extending U.S. access to India, Egypt, & SE Asia, including likely connections to Vietnam and possibly North & East Africa. It expands U.S.-China connection through the Pacific by a factor of 4, to 10 Gbps, offering greater capacity for U.S. collaborations with India and across SE Asia, and providing new equipment to enable better deployment of hybrid services for more advanced science applications. The Taj will deploy a new high-capacity circuit connecting the U.S. with Greenland and the 5 Nordic countries, serving polar, climate change, cyberinfrastructure and other research, and expand U.S.-Russia capacity through a proposed Nordic infrastructure to St. Petersburg. This network promises a new model of distributed, decentralized network measurement, security and management tools, and software for newly-connected India & SE Asia, and for existing communities in U.S., Asia, and Europe. This model enables easy sharing of global network management tasks and focuses on user-level performance. Intellectual Merit: The Taj program advances global cyberinfrastructure services and metrics, broadens the global community working on measuring and mitigating customer-based infrastructure performance, and introduces a new model of distributed, decentralized management of cyberinfrastructure resources. The additional connectivity and bandwidth will allow greater access to cutting edge research in India and SE Asia, and will advance research in pragmatic network deployments and operations. The performance tools that will be deployed are extensible and novel in approach, and have the possibility to strongly impact R&E network deployments.Broader Impacts: Taj's greatest impact lies in its contributions to Infrastructure for Research and Education. India and SE Asia alone will dramatically expand the current user base of 9 million R&E host systems logged by GLORIAD, and significant user growth worldwide. The Taj expansion will benefit U.S. and global research by bringing some of the world's brightest minds into the advanced networks R&E arena. The decentralized model for managing global cyber-infrastructure resources is Taj's most important legacy. Taj is built upon a long track record of fostering global partnerships between public-private entities that address major science problems such as Climate Change, Cybersecurity, Early Warning Systems, Global Public Health, Renewable and Alternative Energy.Overarching goals: strengthen cyberinfrastructure in the northern hemisphere; broaden U.S. access to under-served science communities; promote distributed, decentralized, secure approach to network management; improve operations and user experience through solid metrics for utilization, performance and security; improve cyberinfrastructure awareness and proficiency of end-users.This project is jointly supported by the NSF's Office of Cyberinfrastructure and Office of International Science and Engineering, the Tata Communications, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the Nordic Research Council.This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).

该提案将使用2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）提供的资金，并符合2009年3月20日白宫备忘录第2节的要求，题为“确保负责任的复苏法案资金支出”。摘要：The Taj：全球科学与教育联合网络基础设施的新模式greg Cole， University of tennessee, jerry Sobieski, nordunet, jun Li, CSTnet， Chinese Academy of Science这个为期两年，耗资230万美元的项目将利用约1100万美元的资金和免费捐款，广泛支持美国的研究、工程和教育界及其国际合作者。该项目被命名为泰姬陵，以纪念塔塔公司在印度的重大贡献。通过显著改善北半球的网络基础设施，泰姬陵项目承诺在全球研究和教育（R&amp；E）合作中产生深远和可持续的效益。泰姬陵将服务于几乎所有的科学学科，并提供一个以用户为中心，基于性能的网络响应全球集成的需求，基础设施意识社区的科学家，工程师，教师，和学生。它将通过与欧洲和亚洲的公共和私营部门精心组织的合作和共同资助，在资源有限的时代实现全球开放科学合作。虽然是新项目，但它有效地建立在连接美国、中国、俄罗斯、韩国、加拿大、荷兰、北欧5国的GLORIAD网络基础设施上。泰姬陵将连接香港、新加坡、孟买、亚历山大港（埃及）和欧洲的交换点，将美国延伸到印度、埃及、东南亚，包括可能连接到越南和北非东非。它将通过太平洋的美中连接扩大4倍，达到10gbps，为美国与印度和整个东南亚的合作提供更大的容量，并提供新设备，以便更好地为更先进的科学应用部署混合服务。泰姬陵将部署一条新的高容量线路，连接美国与格陵兰岛和5个北欧国家，服务于极地、气候变化、网络基础设施和其他研究，并通过拟建的北欧基础设施扩展到圣彼得堡，扩大美俄的容量。该网络承诺为新连接的印度和东南亚以及美国、亚洲和欧洲的现有社区提供分布式、分散的网络测量、安全和管理工具和软件的新模型。该模型可以轻松地共享全局网络管理任务，并侧重于用户级性能。知识价值：泰姬陵项目推进了全球网络基础设施服务和指标，扩大了全球社区在衡量和减轻基于客户的基础设施性能方面的工作，并引入了一种分布式、分散管理网络基础设施资源的新模式。额外的连接和带宽将允许更多地访问印度和东南亚的前沿研究，并将推进实用网络部署和运营的研究。将要部署的性能工具是可扩展的，方法新颖，并且有可能对R&amp；E网络部署产生重大影响。更广泛的影响：泰姬陵最大的影响在于它对研究和教育基础设施的贡献。仅在印度和东南亚，就将极大地扩大目前由GLORIAD记录的900万R&amp；E主机系统的用户基础，并在全球范围内显著增长。泰姬酒店的扩建将使美国和全球的研究受益，因为它将把世界上一些最聪明的人才引入先进的网络研发领域。管理全球网络基础设施资源的分散模式是泰姬陵最重要的遗产。泰姬陵建立在促进公私实体之间的全球伙伴关系的长期记录上，这些实体解决了气候变化、网络安全、预警系统、全球公共卫生、可再生能源和替代能源等重大科学问题。总体目标：加强北半球的网络基础设施；扩大美国接触服务不足的科学界的途径；提倡分布式、分散、安全的网络管理方式；通过可靠的利用率、性能和安全性指标改善运营和用户体验；提高终端用户对网络基础设施的认识和熟练程度。该项目由美国国家科学基金会网络基础设施办公室和国际科学与工程办公室、塔塔通信公司、中国科学院和北欧研究理事会共同支持。该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。