Nebraska 2010-12 RII Track C2

项目负责人：F. Fred Choobineh根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助。内布拉斯加州计划投资建立一个全州范围内的高速数据和视频传输网络骨干，该网络将通过内布拉斯加州大学区域光网络（NURON）的扩展而创建，这是林肯和奥马哈之间的一个光纤环，通过堪萨斯城连接到互联网2。这个项目吗?美国的主要机构是：内布拉斯加大学中央行政学院、内布拉斯加大学林肯分校和内布拉斯加大学奥马哈分校。内布拉斯加州29个社区的机构将参与该项目。NURON的扩建计划分三期完成；然而，该项目的目标是投资于建设网络所需的三个阶段中的第一阶段。在第一阶段，全州的21所高等学府（29个站点），从社区学院到研究型大学，将被连接起来。NURON将有7个主站点（集线器），通过光纤环路连接，作为次要站点的接入点。次要站点将以星形配置连接到集线器。这些中心将用于连接内布拉斯加州教育网络，该网络已经开始提供区域统一技术，用于远程交付教育内容，包括正式的K-12课程，以及内布拉斯加州远程保健网络，该网络目前连接83个州的医疗保健提供者。扩展和加强NURON预计将为内布拉斯加州提供网络基础设施（CI）资源，以连接该州。高等教育的教育和远程医疗网络？从而为本州公民提供新的教育、医疗和研究机会？并将这些网络连接到国家网络，提供访问超级计算和其他资源在州，国家和世界各地。该项目将促进a)通过形成具有所需临界质量的研究集群，在多个学科中开展州内和州际合作研究；b)创建与NURON中心相连的分布式传感器网络，用于收集实时环境和气候数据，以开展环境和气候研究。由NE RII C2项目实现的研究和教育工作的例子包括：(a)瑞士欧洲核子研究中心的紧凑型介子螺线管实验-五名UNL物理系成员正在欧洲核子研究组织（CERN）的大型强子对撞机上参与这一大型国际项目。(b)地球科学和气候模拟-联合国大学的研究人员正试图利用大平原作为研究区域气候影响的试验台。他们将模拟地表水、碳和能量的通量对大气过程的影响，范围从当地天气到全球温室效应。(c)生物信息学-内布拉斯加州的研究人员产生了大量的分子基因组和蛋白质组学数据。RII C2提案的投资将进一步提高内布拉斯加州的分析能力？为目前（RII 2007-2010）的研究人员提供资助，并进一步协助属于RII提案的藻类研究人员（RII 2010-2015）。(d)计算纳米科学-联合国国立大学的五名教员和联合国国立大学的两名教员共同在计算纳米材料领域开展工作。他们的著名发现包括发现一种新形式的水，预测和理解电子在超薄铁电体中的隧穿，发现第一个金属纳米团簇——空心金纳米笼，以及许多其他发现。这个地区是内布拉斯加州-波多黎各ii轨道2提案的重点。更广泛的影响国家网络骨干的创建将消除距离作为共享和协作的障碍，并将a)促进在线课程的扩展和可访问性，并为州立大学之间制定正式政策提供动力，以接受非原始机构的在线学分；b)在全州范围内提供一个速度和带宽更高的可靠网络，向弱势学生提供K-12课程内容，从而为农村学生提供与城市学生同等的竞争环境；c)允许在内布拉斯加州共享医疗专业知识；D)允许建立可靠的监控网络以增强安全；e)连接内布拉斯加大学分散在全州的研究和推广站点。

Nebraska 2010-12 RII Track C2 Proposal Number: EPS-1006988Institution: University of NebraskaProject Director: F. Fred Choobineh This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Nebraska plans to invest in the foundation for a statewide cyber backbone for high speed data and video transfer that will be created by expansion of the Nebraska University Regional Optical Network (NURON), a fiber ring between Lincoln and Omaha with connectivity to Internet 2 through Kansas City. The project?s lead institutions are: the University of Nebraska (NU) Central Administration, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), and University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO). Institutions located in 29 Nebraska communities will participate in the project.Expansion of NURON is planned to be completed in three phases; however, the goal of this project is to invest in the first phase of the three phases required to build the network. In phase 1, 21 institutions (29 sites) of higher learning across the state, ranging from community colleges to research universities, would be connected. NURON will have seven primary sites (hubs), connected by fiber loops, that would serve as access points for secondary sites. Secondary sites would be connected to the hubs in star configuration. These hubs would be used to connect to Network Nebraska-Education which already has begun providing regionally unified technology for distance delivery of educational content including formal K-12 courses and to the Nebraska State Telehealth Network which currently links 83 state healthcare providers.Intellectual MeritExpansion and enhancement of NURON is expected to provide Nebraska with cyber-infrastructure (CI) resources to connect the state?s Education and Telehealth Networks to higher education?thus providing new education, healthcare, and research opportunities to citizens of the state?and to connect these networks to national cyber networks providing access to supercomputing computing and other resources around the state, country and the world. This project would facilitate a) collaborative intra- and inter-state research in multiple disciplines by forming research clusters with the required critical mass and b) the creation of distributed sensor networks tied to NURON hubs for collection of real time environmental and climate data to conduct environmental and climate research.Examples of research and education efforts enabled by this NE RII C2 project include: (a) The Compact Muon Solenoid experiment at CERN in Switzerland - Five UNL Physics faculty members are participating in this large scale international project at the Large Hadron Collider at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). (b) Geosciences and climate modeling - UNL researchers are trying to use the Great Plains as a testbed for studying regional climate impacts. They will simulate land surface fluxes of water, carbon, and energy impact atmospheric processes at scales ranging from local weather to global greenhouse effects.(c) Bioinformatics - Nebraska researchers generate an enormous amount of molecular genomic and proteomic data. The investments of the RII C2 proposal would further enhance the analysis capability of Nebraska?s current (RII 2007-2010) researchers beyond the current grant, and further assist algal researchers who are a part of the RII proposal (RII 2010-2015).(d) Computational Nanoscience - Five UNL and two UNO faculty members collaboratively have been working in the area of computational nanomaterials. Examples of their notable discoveries include the discovery of a new form of water, prediction and understanding of electron tunneling through ultra-thin ferroelectrics, discovery of the first metallic nanocluster - hollow gold nanocages, and many others. This area is the focus of the Nebraska - Puerto Rico RII Track-2 proposal.Broader ImpactsThe creation of a state cyber backbone will remove distance as a barrier to sharing and collaboration and would a) facilitate expansion and accessibility of online courses and provide an impetus for establishing formal policies among state colleges and universities for acceptance of online credits hours by non-originating institutions; b) provide a statewide reliable network with higher speed and bandwidth to deliver K-12 course content to disadvantaged students and, in turn, level the playing field for the rural students with respect to their metropolitan counterparts; c) permit sharing of medical expertise across Nebraska; d) permit creation of a reliable monitoring network for security enhancement; and e) connect University of Nebraska research and extension sites dispersed throughout the state.