Expanding and Improving the C-Light Regional Optical Network

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。该项目将翻新南卡罗来纳州现有的区域光学研究和教育网络基础设施，南卡罗来纳州轻轨和C-Light。 该项目将导致南卡罗来纳州校园和国家研究和教育网络之间更高的带宽连接。该项目将取代现有的路由器在边界的C光网络，在格林维尔，与运营商级路由器，并使用它对等与互联网2和北卡罗来纳州研究和教育网络在夏洛特，并与南部十字路口/南部轻轨，亚特兰大的Internet 2和National Lambda Rail。 亚特兰大和格林维尔之间连接的带宽将扩大，多个光波将用于连接格林维尔和夏洛特。 南卡罗来纳州轻轨内的校园接入点将增加新的交换机。许多研究项目将受益于增强的连接。 其中包括：在Citadel研究航空电子设备;在克拉夫林大学研究负责蛋白质稳定性的结构机制;沿海卡罗莱纳大学进行的南极上空云形成的建模研究;使用考古测量学开发古建筑的数字重建（也由沿海卡罗莱纳大学）;由弗朗西斯马里恩大学的一名研究人员进行的星系碰撞建模研究;南卡罗来纳州医科大学、南卡罗来纳州大学和田纳西大学的研究人员对蛋白质对接的研究;南卡罗来纳州医科大学对信号转导的网络分析以及对组织工程和生物制品的研究;以及聚合物的模拟，包括生物聚合物，它们与合成表面和其他聚合物的相互作用，使用纳米孔技术进行DNA测序和检测的方法，以及材料的多尺度建模，由南卡罗来纳州大学的调查人员进行的。该项目将为在南卡罗来纳州的学术机构进行的研究提供基础设施。 由于各种不同的机构，包括两个历史上的黑人学院和大学，正在通过其他资金连接到南卡罗来纳州轻轨，加强南卡罗来纳州轻轨和国家研究和教育网络之间的联系不仅有利于南卡罗来纳州轻轨校长克莱姆森，南卡罗来纳州大学和南卡罗来纳州医科大学，还包括整个南卡罗来纳州范围更广的机构。 该项目包括在沿海卡罗莱纳大学（并行编程课程）、南卡罗来纳州州立大学南卡罗来纳州州长科学和数学高中（利用远程计算资源进行课堂教育）开展的教育活动。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009(Public Law 111-5).This project will renovate the existing regional optical research and education network infrastructure in South Carolina, the South Carolina Light Rail and C-Light. The project will lead to a higher bandwidth connection between South Carolina campuses and national research and education networks.The project will replace an existing router at the border of the C-Light network, in Greenville, with a carrier-class router and use this to peer with Internet2 and the North Carolina Research and Education Network in Charlotte, and with Southern Crossroads/Southern Light Rail, Internet2 and National Lambda Rail in Atlanta. The bandwidth of the connection between Atlanta and Greenville will be expanded and multiple optical waves will be used to connect Greenville and Charlotte. Campus Points of Presence within South Carolina Light Rail will be augmented with new switches.A number of research projects will benefit from the enhanced connectivity. These include: research on avionics at the Citadel; research at Claflin University into the structural mechanisms responsible for the stability of proteins; modeling studies of cloud formation over Antarctica conducted by Coastal Carolina University; the use of archeometrics to develop digital reconstructions of ancient buildings (also by Coastal Carolina University); modeling studies of galaxy collisions by a researcher at Francis Marion University; research into protein docking by investigators at the Medical University of South Carolina, the University of South Carolina, and the University of Tennessee; network analyses of signal transduction as well as research on tissue engineering and biofabrication at the Medical University of South Carolina; and the simulation of polymers, including biopolymers, their interactions with synthetic surfaces and other polymers, approaches to DNA sequencing and detection using nanopore techniques, and multi-scale modeling of materials, by investigators at the University of South Carolina. The project will provide infrastructure for research conducted at academic institutions within the state of South Carolina. Because a variety of different institutions, including two historically black colleges and universities, are being connected to South Carolina Light Rail through other funding, enhancing the connections between South Carolina Light Rail and the national research and education networks will benefit not only the South Carolina Light Rail principals, Clemson, the University of South Carolina and the Medical University of South Carolina, but also a broader range of institutions throughout South Carolina. The project includes educational activities at Coastal Carolina University (a parallel programming course), South Carolina State University, and the South Carolina Governor's High School for Science and Mathematics (using the remote computing resources for classroom education).