Connecting the Islands: Cyber Connectivity for Science and Technology in Hawaii

连接岛屿：夏威夷科技的网络连接

• 批准号: 1007033
• 负责人: James Gaines
• 金额: $ 117.65万
• 依托单位: University of Hawaii
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-09-01 至 2012-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1007033&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Connecting; Islands; Cyber; Connectivity; Science

AbstractProposal Number: EPS-1007033Proposal Title: Connecting the Islands; Cyber Connectivity for Science and Technology in HawaiiInstitution: University of Hawaii Project Director: James R. GainesThis proposal will be awarded using funds made available by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).This RII Inter-Campus and Intra-Campus Cyber Connectivity (RII C2) award focuses on inter-campus and inter-island connectivity and seeks to provide new 10 Gbps connections among four specific locations. These connections are most critical to Hawaii?s thriving EPSCoR program as well as to the overall Science and Technology (S&T) research and STEM education agendas in Hawaii. The project will provide a ten-fold increase in capability among these key locations, and the design will be extensible in the future to all public higher education institutions in Hawaii and other key S&T locations. The connectivity among campuses proposed in this RII C2 will enable essential access to high performance computing facilities at the Maui High Performance Computing Center (MHPCC), the new mass storage at University of Hawaii-Manoa (UHM), the new visualization and modeling capacity at University of Hawaii-Hilo (UHH), and STEM initiatives at Kapiolani Community College (KCC). It will also enhance more effective collaboration through emerging high definition videoconferencing among researchers across campuses and across disciplines throughout the state and beyond.Intellectual MeritThe four initial locations for this project were selected specifically to highlight the intellectual merit of new cyberinfrastructure-empowered methodologies within Hawaii and beyond. The Maui High Performance Computing Center (MHPCC) is one of the six major U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) supercomputer facilities. Under the terms of an Educational Partnership Agreement, UH and the DoD have agreed to establish a complementary Hawaii Open Supercomputing Center at the MHPCC facility that will leverage the data center and operational support to provide High Performance Computing (HPC) resources for academic, governmental and commercial science and technology within Hawaii. The RII C2 project will support a broad range of world-class programs focused particularly in areas where Hawaii is viewed as having a competitive advantage: astronomy, oceanography, marine studies, geology & geophysics, climate studies, and evolutionary biology. The island of Hawaii has significant environmental diversity, thus UHH has made it a strategic priority to leverage its island-wide living laboratory in its research and education programs.Broader ImpactsThis program will directly and substantially impact efforts at KCC and UHH to engage Native Hawaiians, Pacific Islander and Filipino students in STEM research and education initiatives that have a strong focus on linkages between STEM disciplines and indigenous cultures and practices. This could bring more underrepresented populations into STEM disciplines and careers. The network enhancements will facilitate connectivity across Hawaii and to the rest of the world by providing more access to national and global networks, data collection and management tools, high performance computing, modeling, visualization, and virtual organizations. In addition, the improved cyber connectivity will help open Hawaii-based science to increased involvement from mainland based students and scholars which could facilitate greater intellectual innovation.

建议编号：EPS-1007033建议标题：连接岛屿；夏威夷科学和技术的网络连接机构：夏威夷大学项目主任：詹姆斯·R·盖恩斯这项建议将使用2009年美国复苏和再投资法案(公法111-5)提供的资金授予。该RII校际和校内网络连接(RC2)奖侧重于校际和岛间连接，并寻求在四个特定地点之间提供新的10 Gbps连接。这些联系对夏威夷S的EPSCoR项目以及夏威夷的整体科技(S&T)研究和STEM教育议程是最关键的。该项目将在这些关键地点之间提供十倍的能力，该设计将在未来扩展到夏威夷的所有公立高等教育机构和S公司的其他关键地点。RII C2中提议的校园之间的连接将使人们能够基本访问毛伊岛高性能计算中心(MHPCC)的高性能计算设施，夏威夷大学马诺阿(UHM)的新海量存储，夏威夷大学希洛(UHH)的新可视化和建模能力，以及卡皮奥拉尼社区学院(KCC)的STEM倡议。它还将通过跨校园和跨学科的研究人员之间新出现的高清晰度视频会议来加强更有效的协作。智力价值此项目的四个初始地点是专门为夏威夷内外突出网络基础设施支持的新方法的智力优势而选择的。毛伊岛高性能计算中心(MHPCC)是美国国防部(DoD)六大超级计算机设施之一。根据教育伙伴协议的条款，华盛顿大学和国防部已同意在MHPCC设施中建立一个互补的夏威夷开放超级计算中心，该中心将利用数据中心和运营支持，为夏威夷境内的学术、政府和商业科学和技术提供高性能计算(HPC)资源。RII C2项目将支持广泛的世界级项目，特别是在夏威夷被视为具有竞争优势的领域：天文学、海洋学、海洋研究、地质和地球物理、气候研究和进化生物学。夏威夷岛具有显著的环境多样性，因此密歇根州立大学已将利用其全岛生活实验室作为其研究和教育计划的战略优先事项。广泛影响这一计划将直接和实质性地影响KCC和密歇根大学的努力，使夏威夷原住民、太平洋岛民和菲律宾学生参与STEM研究和教育计划，这些计划非常注重STEM学科与土著文化和实践之间的联系。这可能会让更多未被充分代表的人群进入STEM学科和职业。网络增强将通过提供更多接入国家和全球网络、数据收集和管理工具、高性能计算、建模、可视化和虚拟组织，促进整个夏威夷和世界其他地区的连接。此外，网络连接的改善将有助于将夏威夷的科学开放给大陆学生和学者更多的参与，这可能会促进更大的智力创新。