IRNC-ProNet: Americas Lightpaths: Increasing the Rate of Discovery and Enhancing Education across the Americas

IRNC-ProNet：美洲光路：提高整个美洲的发现率并加强教育

• 批准号: 0963053
• 负责人: Julio Ibarra
• 金额: $ 546.34万
• 依托单位: Florida International University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Cooperative Agreement
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-07-01 至 2018-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0963053&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: IRNC; ProNet; Americas; Lightpaths; Increasing

The project team intends Americas Lightpaths (AmLight) to enable research and education amongst the people of the Americas through the operation of production infrastructure for communication and collaboration between the US and Western Hemisphere science and engineering research and education communities. Four links are proposed to tie together the major research networks of five of the larger countries in the Americas: Brazil, Canada, Chile, Mexico, and the United States. In addition, this work will enable interconnects between the United States and the Latin American regional network of RedCLARA, which enables connectivity to 18 Latin American national research and education networks.The effort is fundamentally collaborative, includingg AURA, ANSP, RNP, CENIC, AtlanticWave, PacificWave, ANSP, CUDI, RedCLARA, and REUNA. Through AtlanticWave and PacificWave, there will be production connectivity and peering to North American backbone networks Internet2, National Lambda Rail (NLR), ESnet, and CANARIE. Through RedCLARA, there will be production connectivity to thirteen national research and education networks with plans to expand to eighteen NRENs during the life of the project. AmLight will enhance global e-Science collaborations through distributed production peering fabrics, as well as any research and education networks present or future that connect to AtlanticWave or PacificWave. AmLight is a network architecture designed to support the needs of U.S.-Western Hemisphere research and education communities in a manner that supports the evolving nature of discovery and scholarship. The capacity and designs are based on collaborative funding over the five-year project plan, and are expected to evolve and continue to match the needs of the community. Over 40 collaborations that include participants from the Americas are funded directly by NSF and encompass disciplines including physics, environmental science, oceanography, climate change, astronomy, and others. AmLight will serve as the foundational infrastructure to support these collaborations. Intellectual MeritAmLight is an approach to solve the problem of interconnecting not just the advanced networks, but the core communities and needs behind them in the Western Hemisphere. Today?s research is being adversely impacted by the lack of networking capacity to and from South America. AmLight provides the structure and the resources to empower researchers and educators. These successes present themselves qualitatively in the creation of geographically distributed research groups using the network, working groups formed through common interests developed on the network, and publications made possible through the network. Broader ImpactAs the network ties together more instruments and research groups at higher speeds, the result will be an increase in the rate of gathering, processing, and sharing data. This will produce an increase in the rate of discovery. The possible impact of this award touches on many areas of collaborative science and engineering. From biodiversity research that will identify specimens faster, to collaborative biomedical engineering that will discover drug treatments more quickly, to nuclear physicists. Scholarship in the Americas will improve through new opportunities for collaborative teaching, technology-augmented student mobility, and an infrastructure for inquiry-based learning. The AmLight project will allow U.S. classrooms to share a window to classrooms throughout the Western Hemisphere.The NSF designates Hispanic Americans as a disadvantaged community. This infrastructure gives Hispanic Americans a new and unique advantage - the opportunity to leverage cultural and language commonalities with collaborators in Latin America to advance their pursuit of research and education in the US. This award will offer an advantage to not only the Hispanic populations throughout the US, but will cement collaborative relationships throughout the Americas.

该项目团队打算美洲光路（AmLight），使研究和教育之间的美洲人民通过生产基础设施的运作，为美国和西半球的科学和工程研究和教育界之间的沟通和合作。 四个链接被提议将美洲五个较大国家的主要研究网络联系在一起：巴西，加拿大，智利，墨西哥和美国。此外，这项工作将使美国和Redunda的拉丁美洲区域网络之间的互连成为可能，该网络使18个拉丁美洲国家研究和教育网络能够连接。这项工作基本上是合作的，包括AURA，ANSP，RNP，CENIC，AntiticWave，PacificWave，ANSP，CUDI，Redunda和REUNA。 通过AkticWave和PacificWave，将实现与北美骨干网络Internet 2、国家Lambda铁路（NLR）、ESnet和CANARIE的生产连接和对等。通过Redmarta，将与13个国家研究和教育网络建立生产连接，并计划在项目期间扩展到18个NREN。AmLight将通过分布式生产对等网络，以及连接到AntiticWave或PacificWave的现有或未来的任何研究和教育网络，加强全球电子科学合作。 AmLight是一种网络架构，旨在支持美国西半球的研究和教育社区的方式，支持不断发展的性质的发现和奖学金。能力和设计是基于五年项目计划的合作资金，预计将不断发展并继续满足社区的需求。超过40个合作项目，包括来自美洲的参与者直接由NSF资助，涵盖学科包括物理学，环境科学，海洋学，气候变化，天文学等。AmLight将作为支持这些合作的基础设施。MeritAmLight是一种解决互联问题的方法，不仅是先进的网络，而且是西半球核心社区及其背后的需求。今天吗？由于缺乏与南美之间的网络联系能力，美国的研究受到了不利影响。AmLight提供结构和资源，以增强研究人员和教育工作者的能力。这些成功在质量上体现在利用该网络建立了地理上分布的研究小组，通过在该网络上发展共同利益而成立的工作组，以及通过该网络得以出版的出版物。更广泛的影响随着网络以更高的速度将更多的仪器和研究小组联系在一起，其结果将是收集、处理和共享数据的速度加快。这将提高发现率。该奖项可能产生的影响涉及合作科学和工程的许多领域。从生物多样性研究可以更快地识别标本，到合作生物医学工程可以更快地发现药物治疗，再到核物理学家。美洲的奖学金将通过合作教学，技术增强的学生流动性和基于探究的学习基础设施的新机会得到改善。AmLight项目将使美国的教室与整个西半球的教室共享一扇窗户。NSF将西班牙裔美国人指定为弱势群体。这种基础设施为西班牙裔美国人提供了一个新的独特优势-有机会利用与拉丁美洲合作者的文化和语言共性，以推动他们在美国的研究和教育。该奖项不仅将为整个美国的西班牙裔人口提供优势，而且将巩固整个美洲的合作关系。