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

该提案将使用2009年美国复苏和再投资法案提供的资金进行奖励（公法111-5），并符合2009年3月20日白宫备忘录第2节中规定的要求，该备忘录题为“确保负责任地使用恢复法基金”。全球联合网络基础设施的一种新模式，用于科学和教育Greg科尔，田纳西大学Jerry Sobieski，NORDNet，李俊，CSTnet，中国科学院这个为期两年、耗资230万美元的项目将利用约1100万美元的资金和无偿捐款，广泛支持美国的研究、工程和教育界及其国际合作者。这个项目被命名为泰姬陵是为了荣誉印度塔塔公司的重大贡献。 通过极大地改善北方的网络基础设施，泰姬陵计划有望在全球研究和教育（R E）合作中产生深远和可持续的利益。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的，基于性能的网络，以满足科学家，工程师，教师和学生的全球一体化，基础设施意识社区的需求。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。泰姬陵项目是新的，但它有效地建立在GLORIAD网络基础设施，连接美国，泰姬酒店将连接香港、新加坡、孟买、亚历山大（埃及）和欧洲的兑换点，将美国的通道扩展到印度、埃及、东南亚，包括可能连接越南和东北非洲。 它扩展了美国-通过太平洋连接中国的速度将提高4倍，达到10 Gbps，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，以便更好地部署混合服务，以实现更先进的科学应用。 泰姬陵将部署一个新的高容量电路，连接美国与格陵兰岛和北欧5国，为极地、气候变化、网络基础设施和其他研究提供服务，并扩大美国的研究范围。俄罗斯的能力通过拟议的北欧基础设施到彼得堡。 该网络承诺为新连接的印度东南亚以及美国现有社区提供分布式，分散式网络测量，安全和管理工具以及软件的新模式，亚洲和欧洲。该模型可以轻松共享全局网络管理任务，并专注于用户级性能。智力优势：Taj计划推进了全球网络基础设施服务和指标，扩大了致力于衡量和减轻基于客户的基础设施性能的全球社区，并引入了网络基础设施资源分布式分散管理的新模式。额外的连接和带宽将使印度和东南亚的尖端研究更容易获得，并将推动实用网络部署和运营方面的研究。将部署的性能工具是可扩展的和新颖的方法，并有可能强烈影响R E网络部署。更广泛的影响：泰姬陵的最大影响在于其对研究和教育基础设施的贡献。仅印度和东南亚就将大幅扩大GLORIAD记录的900万R E主机系统的现有用户群，并在全球范围内实现显著的用户增长。泰姬陵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带入先进的网络R E竞技场。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。 泰姬基金会建立在促进公私实体之间的全球伙伴关系的长期记录之上，这些实体致力于解决重大科学问题，如气候变化、网络安全、预警系统、全球公共卫生、可再生和替代能源。总体目标：加强北方的网络基础设施;扩大美国对服务不足的科学界的接触;促进分布式、分散式、安全的网络管理方法;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;提高最终用户的网络基础设施意识和熟练程度。该项目由NSF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。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。

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).