CITADel - CyberInfrastructure Technology Advancement for Delaware

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。该项目将改造特拉华大学的校园网络基础设施和广域网连接。这包括为校园网增加第二个外部连接点，提高外部网络容量，提供更高带宽的连接，提供使用动态网络电路的能力，以及升级校园网设备，使其能够提供从研究中心和小组到校园主干网的多个10-Gbp/s连接。此次翻新将加强特拉华大学在多个领域的研究，包括：天文学和空间物理学、催化和能源研究、海洋学和海洋生物学的关键区域研究、生物信息学、基因组学、蛋白质建模和网络计算机科学研究。将受到影响的具体项目包括：分析来自高能辐射成像望远镜阵列系统（VERITAS）的数据，该系统扫描夜空中爆炸恒星的残余物、遥远的活动星系、强大的伽马射线暴和暗物质粒子的证据；利用冰立方中微子探测器进行宇宙射线科学研究；流体动力学和磁流体动力学湍流模拟结果的存档、分析和可视化；利用遥感平台数据研究水文和沿海资源、湿地和土地资源；北大西洋深水对流研究；纳米材料的多尺度建模，以帮助开发创新的催化技术，有效地将生物质转化为化学品，电力和燃料；分布式计算中的网络性能研究未来对蛋白质信息资源的支持，这是一个支持基因组学、蛋白质组学和系统生物学研究和科学研究的公共生物信息学资源；利用远程超级计算设施进行生物信息学研究；以及与EPSCoR东北部其他州的合作伙伴合作进行植物功能基因组学研究。除了为研究提供基础设施外，翻新工程还将为研究生研究培训和教育提供动态网络和计算资源。研究研讨会和技术课程以利用计算资源的项目为特色。网络革新将允许这些用户利用当前的虚拟化趋势，这样计算工作就不再局限于特定的实验室或一组系统。该大学将利用增强的网络连接使其计算和网络资源可用于教育和研究，特拉华州的其他四年制和两年制学院。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The project will renovate the campus network infrastructure and the wide-area network connection at the University of Delaware. This includes adding a second external connection point to the campus network, improving external network capacity, providing higher-bandwidth connectivity, providing the capability to use dynamic network circuits, and upgrading campus network devices to enable the ability to provide multiple 10-Gbp/s connections from research centers and groups to the campus backbone. The renovation will enhance research in a number of fields of research pursued at the University of Delaware, including: astronomy and space physics, catalysis and energy research, critical zone studies in oceanography and marine biology, bioinformatics, genomics, protein modeling, and computer science research on networks. Examples of specific projects that will be affected include: the analysis of data from the Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System (VERITAS) that scans the night sky for remnants of exploded stars, distant active galaxies, powerful gamma-ray bursts, and evidence of dark matter particles; conducting cosmic ray science using the IceCube neutrino detector; archiving, analysis and visualization of the output from hydrodynamic and magnetohydrodynamic turbulence simulations; studies of hydrological and coastal resources, wetlands, and land resources using data from remote sensing platforms; studies of deep-water convection in the North-Atlantic Ocean; multiscale modeling of nanomaterials to help develop innovative catalytic technologies for efficient conversion of biomass into chemicals, electricity, and fuels; network performance in distributed computing; future support of the Protein Information Resource, a public bioinformatics resource that supports genomic, proteomic and systems biology research and scientific studies; the use of remote supercomputing facilities for bioinformatics research; and research in plant functional genomics in collaboration with partners in other north-eastern EPSCoR states.In addition to providing infrastructure for research, the renovation will enhance access to dynamic network and computing resources for graduate research training and education. Research seminars and technical courses feature projects that make use of computing resources. The network renovation will allow such users to exploit the current trends of virtualization so that computing work is no longer tied to a particular lab or group of systems. The University will use the enhanced network connectivity to make its computational and network resources available, for education and research, to other four- and two-year colleges in Delaware.