CC-NIE Network Infrastructure: FlowSurge: Supporting Science Data Flows Towards Discovery, Innovation and Education

FlowSurge项目利用FIU校园网、AMPATH国际交换点、地区、国家和国际多组织的软件定义网络（SDN）网络基础设施（CI）资源，加强对研究人员实验室端到端科学流动的支持。FlowSurge的主要研究贡献是为FIU量身定制的科学网络和科学DMZ，以支持高性能科学应用和数据密集型流。安装“FlowSurge机架”的方法针对科学流的高性能和可编程性进行了优化，并用于在研究人员的实验室中监测和测量科学流，从而实现了这一目标。FlowSurge的动机是研究人员的需求：(1)生成科学流到校园内共享的CI或CI连接的资源；在其他校园；或在区域、国家或国际遗址；(2)通过使用FlowSurge为优化的高性能科学应用和数据密集型流量身定制端到端路径，编排和参与“大规模”实验。FlowSurge使FIU的IT和网络人员能够对校园网基础设施进行分区，以支持科学流，而不会对校园内的通用流造成影响。FlowSurge的影响是为FIU（美国大陆最大的西班牙裔少数民族服务机构）的研究人员和他们的学生介绍了新的实践环境，并激励采用和使用FlowSurge机架，科学网络和科学DMZ，就好像它是大规模实验所需资源的研究工具一样。

The FlowSurge project leverages cyberinfrastructure (CI) resources for Software Defined Networking (SDN) on the FIU campus network, at the AMPATH International Exchange Point, regional, national and international multi-organizations to enhance support for end-to-end Science flows from a researcher's laboratory. FlowSurge's major research contribution is a science network and Science DMZ at FIU tailored to support high-performance science applications and data-intensive flows. The method of installing "FlowSurge Racks" optimized for high-performance and programmability of science flows, and instrumented for monitoring and measuring science flows right in the researchers' laboratories achieves that objective.FlowSurge is motivated by researchers' requirements to: (1) generate science flows to shared CI or CI-connected resources on the campus; at other campuses; or at regional, national or international sites; and (2) Orchestrate and participate in "at-scale" experiments by using FlowSurge to tailor the end-to-end path for optimized high-performance science applications and data-intensive flows. FlowSurge enables IT and network staff at FIU to partition the campus network infrastructure to support Science flows without causing impact to general-purpose flows on the campus. The impact of FlowSurge is an environment that introduces new practices for researchers and their students at FIU (the largest Hispanic minority serving institution within the continental U.S.), and motivates the adoption and use of the FlowSurge rack, the Science network and the Science DMZ collectively as if it were a research instrument for resources needed for at-scale experimentation.