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

该项目团队计划通过美国和西半球科学和工程研究与教育界之间的沟通和合作的生产基础设施的运营，在美洲人民中开展研究和教育。建议建立四个联系，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RedCLARA拉丁美洲区域网络之间实现互连，使之能够连接到18个拉丁美洲国家研究和教育网络。这项工作基本上是协作的，包括AURA、ANSP、RNP、CEEN、大西洋波、太平洋波、ANSP、CUDI、RedCLARA和REUNA。通过大西洋波和太平洋波，将有与北美主干网络Internet2、National Lambda Rail(NLR)、ESnet和CANARIE的生产连接和对等。通过RedCLARA，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大到18个国家研究和教育网络。AmLight将通过分布的生产对等结构以及连接到大西洋波浪或太平洋波浪的任何现在或未来的研究和教育网络来加强全球电子科学合作。AMLight是一种网络架构，旨在支持美国-西半球研究和教育社区的需求，以支持发现和学术的不断发展的性质。能力和设计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。包括来自美洲的参与者在内的40多个合作项目由美国国家科学基金会直接资助，涵盖了物理、环境科学、海洋学、气候变化、天文学等学科。AmLight将作为支持这些合作的基础设施。Knowledge MeritAmLight是一种解决西半球先进网络以及核心社区和背后需求的互联问题的方法。今天？S的研究正受到南美之间缺乏网络能力的不利影响。AMLight提供了增强研究人员和教育工作者能力的结构和资源。这些成功定性地体现在利用该网络建立地理分布的研究小组、通过在网络上发展共同利益而组成的工作组以及通过网络使出版物成为可能方面。更广泛的影响随着网络以更快的速度将更多的仪器和研究小组联系在一起，结果将是数据收集、处理和共享的速度加快。这将提高发现的速度。该奖项可能产生的影响涉及协作科学和工程的许多领域。从将更快识别样本的生物多样性研究，到将更快发现药物治疗的协作生物医学工程，再到核物理学家。美洲的奖学金将通过协作教学的新机会、技术增强的学生流动性和探究式学习的基础设施来改善。AMLight项目将允许美国的教室与整个西半球的教室共享一个窗口。美国国家科学基金会将拉美裔美国人列为弱势群体。这种基础设施为拉美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在文化和语言上的共同点，推进他们在美国的研究和教育事业。这一奖项不仅将为全美的拉美裔人口提供优势，还将巩固整个美洲的合作关系。

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.