Oklahoma Optical Initiative

俄克拉何马州光学倡议提案号：EPS - 1006919机构：俄克拉何马大学诺曼校区项目主任：Henry J. neeman2009美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助该奖项。这个OK校际和校园内网络连接（RII C2）项目将由俄克拉何马大学诺曼校区领导，使整个州受益。通过俄克拉何马州光倡议（OOI）， OK RII C2项目计划促进提供大量专用高性能连接的能力，包括俄克拉何马州内部以及国内和国际网络（例如，Internet2， NLR）。OOI将把俄克拉何马州现有的研究环从路由转变为光学，利用现有的基础设施，同时将光交换组件提升到一个新的水平，促进可靠性、稳健性、可用性和潜在带宽的实质性提高，并能够提供专用的lambda。该计划将利用OneNet和俄克拉荷马大学（OU）现有的和新兴的投资。俄克拉何马州的个别机构将实现实质性的连接转型，因此他们可以利用OOI。特别是：(a) OU的超级计算机将其面向世界的网络连接升级到10 Gbps（增加10倍）；(b) OSU（俄克拉荷马州立大学）将从目前的1 Gbps校园内（但10 Gbps面向环）升级到10 Gbps校园内（增加10倍）；(c)塔尔萨大学将升级到1gbps（增加5倍），仅供研究使用，不增加费用；(d)兰斯顿大学（LU）高能物理（HEP）项目的带宽将增加到10 Gbps（增加100倍），不增加费用；(e) Noble带宽将通过光纤不可撤销使用权协议增加到250 Mbps（增加5倍），不增加费用；(f)通过将现有的光学元件从研究环重新部署到OneNet的远程中心，将改善农村和非城域连接。(g)俄克拉何马州网真倡议将向俄克拉何马州的所有高等教育校园提供高清晰度网真。俄克拉荷马州目前在生物能源和生态信息学上有一个RII轨道1和一个RII轨道2。由俄克拉何马州立大学、俄克拉何马大学和塞缪尔·罗伯茨诺贝尔基金会（Noble）合作的Track 1并不是网络连接的大客户，但Noble目前只有45 Mbps，预计不足以满足新出现的需求；Track1还包括俄克拉何马州网络基础设施倡议（OCII），该倡议为24所机构（包括俄克拉何马州13所公立大学中的11所）的540名用户提供网络基础设施资源，大多数不收取使用费。Track 2是开放大学、俄勒冈州立大学、堪萨斯大学和堪萨斯州立大学合作的项目，使用大量数据，并不断收集和转换NASA的数据，这些数据可从门户网站获得。其他数据密集型项目包括：(a)俄克拉荷马州长期以来一直是气象研究的领导者，特别是在严重风暴的实时预报方面，包括：风暴分析和预测中心；大气发现协作关联环境（NSF大型信息技术研究）；作为国家科学基金科技中心开发先进区域预报系统，现在是天气研究与预报（WRF）模式的主要开发者；他刚刚获得了美国国家科学基金会千万亿次应用拨款，用于在美国国家科学基金会的蓝水每秒千万亿次系统上进行集成卡尔曼滤波。(b)在过去的6年里，俄克拉何马州能源部EPSCoR一直支持俄克拉何马州唯一一所历史上的黑人大学——俄亥俄州立大学、俄勒冈州立大学和LU之间的高能物理合作。此外，OU和LU与其他两个机构组成了nsf资助的ATLAS西南二级中心。在OU， HEP项目预计从2010年开始消耗大约5gbps；在剑桥大学，校园网络能力不足以满足其日益增长的计算和数据责任。(c)开放大学和俄勒冈州立大学的高性能计算机中心支持几十个研究小组。(d)该州的科学技术计划包括生物能源、植物科学、天气和天气传感器，以及OCII支持但未在RII C2提案中提及的其他领域。更广泛的影响俄克拉何马州网络指导计划将为俄克拉何马州立大学和OneNet的网络专业人士提供全州各地的机构（20家机构表示有兴趣），就网络专业的实用性和工作见影机会进行演讲，包括物理和虚拟的。此外，所描述的每个科学项目都有自己广泛的教育计划，俄克拉何马州网络基础设施倡议（OCII）有其长期和成功的SiPE教育计划，俄克拉何马州EPSCoR有全面的教育和推广计划，与经济发展和旨在提高公众对科学重要性的认识联系在一起。K-12学生和教师通过暑期技术学院、移动科学车辆和教师培训讲习班接触到尖端科学和CI。本科学生在工业界和学术界的研究经验得到支持，有才华的学生正在被招募到基于生物能源的研究生项目。研讨会正在面向教育，培训和整合CI在俄克拉何马州的RII项目的推广和研究组成部分。鼓励多学科、多校园合作的会议，以及提高教师在未来申请拨款时的竞争力。为学生举办创业工作坊，举办商业计划竞赛，并发放商业化代金券，以评估研究人员发明的商业潜力，以培养学生和教师的创业精神。除了出版物、网站和维基之外，这个RII C2项目的成果还将通过俄克拉何马州超级计算研讨会（Oklahoma Supercomputing Symposium）进行传播。8年来，该研讨会吸引了来自23个州和波多黎各的84个学术机构（32个在俄克拉何马州，19个在其他12个EPSCoR管辖区）的2000多名与会者，其中包括授予博士、硕士和学士学位的大学、社区学院、职业技术、高中和公立学校系统，以及79家私营公司。29个政府机构（俄克拉荷马州21个）和13个非政府组织。RII的教育推广计划包括包容代表性不足的群体和女性，并通过与LU（俄克拉何马州的HBCU）和部落学院的合作，加强竞争力和多样性，促进从高中到大学的过渡，提供与文化相适应的咨询支持，并促进增强计划，以留住追求STEM学科的学生。其他倡议促进科学进步的有效沟通，以提高公众对州立法机构和公众对科学价值的认识。总的来说，RII的投资将使俄克拉荷马州提高对主流NSF资金的竞争力。

Oklahoma Optical Initiative Proposal Number: EPS - 1006919 Institution: University of Oklahoma Norman CampusProject Director: Henry J. NeemanThis award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This OK Inter-campus and Intra-campus Cyber Connectivity (RII C2) project would be led by the University of Oklahoma Norman Campus to benefit the entire state.Intellectual MeritThrough the Oklahoma Optical Initiative (OOI), the OK RII C2 project plans to facilitate the ability to provision a substantial number of dedicated high performance connections, both within Oklahoma and to national and international networks (e.g., Internet2, NLR). OOI would transform Oklahoma's existing research ring from routed to optical, leveraging existing infrastructure while advancing optical switching components to a new level, facilitating substantial improvement in reliability, robustness, availability and potentially bandwidth, as well as enabling the ability to provision dedicated lambdas. This initiative will leverage extant and emerging investments by OneNet and University of Oklahoma (OU). Individual Oklahoma institutions will achieve substantial connectivity transformations, so they can take advantage of OOI. In particular: (a) OU's supercomputer will have its world-facing network connectivity upgraded to 10 Gbps (10X increase);(b) OSU (Oklahoma State University) will be upgraded to 10 Gbps intra-campus (10x increase), from its current 1 Gbps intra-campus (but 10 Gbps ring-facing); (c) University of Tulsa will be upgraded to 1 Gbps (5X increase), for research use only, at no upcharge; (d) Langston University (LU) bandwidth for High Energy Physics (HEP) projects will be increased to 10 Gbps (100X increase), at no upcharge; (e) Noble bandwidth will be increased to 250 Mbps (5X increase) via a fiber Indefeasible Right to Use agreement, at no upcharge; (f) Rural and nonmetro connectivity will be improved, via redeploying extant optical components from the research ring to OneNet's remote hubsites. (g) The Oklahoma Telepresence Initiative will make High Definition telepresence available to all higher education campuses in Oklahoma.Oklahoma currently has an RII Track 1 on bioenergy and an RII Track 2 on ecoinformatics. The Track 1, a collaboration among Oklahoma State University, the University of Oklahoma and the Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation (Noble), isn't a large consumer of network connectivity, but Noble currently is at only 45 Mbps, expected to be inadequate for emerging needs; the Track1 also includes the Oklahoma Cyberinfrastructure Initiative (OCII), which provides CI resources to 540 users at 24 institutions (including 11 of Oklahoma's 13 public universities), mostly without usage charges. The Track 2, a collaboration among OU, OSU, the University of Kansas and Kansas State University, uses substantial data, with constant collection and transformation of NASA data made available from a web portal. Other Data-Intensive Projects include: (a) Oklahoma has been a longstanding leader in meteorology research, especially in real time forecasting of severe storms, including: the Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms; the Linked Environment for Atmospheric Discovery collaboration (NSF Large Information Technology Research); development of the Advanced Regional Prediction System as an NSF Science and Technology Center and now a key developer of the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model; a just-awarded NSF Petascale Applications grant for Ensemble Kalman Filtering on the NSF's Blue Waters multi-petaflops system. (b) For the past 6 years, Oklahoma's DOE EPSCoR has supported a High Energy Physics collaboration among OU, OSU and LU, Oklahoma's only Historically Black University. In addition, OU and LU, with two other institutions, form the NSF-funded ATLAS Southwest Tier2 Center. At OU, HEP projects are expected to consume roughly 5 Gbps starting in 2010; at LU, campus networking capability is inadequate for LU's growing computing and data responsibilities. (c) The OU and OSU HPC centers support dozens of research teams. (d) The state's Science & Technology (S&T) plan includes bioenergy, plant science, weather and weather sensors, plus other areas that are supported under OCII but not called out in this RII C2 proposal.Broader ImpactsThe Oklahoma Networking Mentorship Program will provide networking professionals from OU and OneNet to institutions across the state (20 institutions have expressed interest), to deliver presentations on the practicalities of the networking profession and job shadowing opportunities, both physical and virtual. In addition, each of the science projects described has its own extensive education program, Oklahoma Cyber-infrastructure Initiative (OCII) has its longstanding and successful SiPE education program, and Oklahoma EPSCoR has comprehensive educational and outreach programs, links to economic development and to initiatives designed to enhance public awareness of the importance of science.K-12 students and teachers are being exposed to cutting-edge science and CI through summer technology academies, mobile science vehicles, and teacher training workshops. Undergraduate student research experiences in industry and academia are supported and talented students are being recruited into bioenergy based graduate programs. Workshops are being geared towards the education, training and integration of CI in the outreach and research components of Oklahoma's RII projects. Conferences to encourage multidisciplinary, multi-campus collaborations and to enhance faculty competitiveness in future grant submissions are being supported. An entrepreneurial workshop, a business plan competition for students along with commercialization vouchers to assess the commercial potential of researcher's inventions would foster the spirit of entrepreneurship of both students and faculty. Along with publications, website and wiki, outcomes of this RII C2 project are proposed to be disseminated via the Oklahoma Supercomputing Symposium, which in 8 years has had over 2000 attendees from 84 academic institutions in 23 states and Puerto Rico (32 in Oklahoma and 19 in 12 other EPSCoR jurisdictions), including PhD-, masters- and bachelors-granting universities, community colleges, career techs, a high school and public school systems, as well as 79 private companies, 29 government agencies (21 in Oklahoma) and 13 non-governmental organizations.RII education outreach initiatives embrace the inclusion of underrepresented groups and women, and strengthen competitiveness and diversity through collaboration with LU (Oklahoma's HBCU) and tribal college, facilitating transition from high school to college, providing culture-attuned counseling support, and promoting enhancement programs to retain students pursuing STEM disciplines. Other initiatives promote effective communication of scientific advances to enhance public awareness of the value of science to the state legislature and the general public. Collectively, the RII investments would position Oklahoma to enhance competitiveness for mainstream NSF funding.