CC-NIE Networking Infrastructure: Infrastructure Upgrades for Advancing Discovery

CC-NIE 网络基础设施：基础设施升级以推进发现

• 批准号: 1340592
• 负责人: Mark McPeek
• 金额: $ 47.33万
• 依托单位: Dartmouth College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-01-01 至 2015-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1340592&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CC; NIE; Networking; Infrastructure; Upgrades

The flood of Big Data now being created across the sciences and social sciences has produced extraordinary new intellectual and empirical opportunities with implications throughout society. While high performance computing has long been available for processing such large data sets, researchers and institutions must carefully design network computing environments in order to effect useful analyses in real time. One of the greatest limitations of such analyses at Dartmouth currently is simply moving data from where it is produced and stored to where analyses are done: simply getting the data to the computer for analysis can now often take longer than the analysis will take once the data is there. Dartmouth has a number of superior high performance computing assets, but these currently exist as silos on the network. The work supported by this proposal is consolidating Dartmouth's high performance computing assets onto one high-speed network - the Science DMZ - that is separate from the main campus network. The Science DMZ allows optimal configuration of the Dartmouth computing clusters and file storage systems; alleviates file storage and movement issues from the workflow of researchers; and provides a robust and secure scientific network backbone for future system growth and innovation. The Science DMZ network will tremendously increase the pace of scientific research done at Dartmouth. In particular, the Science DMZ will greatly expand the abilities of the more than 500 undergraduates who perform independent research each year and graduate students across Dartmouth's graduate and professional programs to accomplish their work.

现在在科学和社会科学中造成的大数据泛滥为整个社会带来了非凡的新知识和经验机会。 尽管长期以来一直可用于处理如此庞大的数据集，但研究人员和机构必须仔细设计网络计算环境，以实时进行有用的分析。 目前，达特茅斯（Dartmouth）进行此类分析的最大局限性之一就是将数据从生成和存储的数据移至进行分析的地方：仅将数据传递到计算机进行分析现在通常比分析所需的时间更长，一旦数据存在。 达特茅斯（Dartmouth）有许多出色的高性能计算资产，但这些计算资产目前作为网络上的孤岛存在。 该提案支持的工作是将达特茅斯的高性能计算资产合并到一个与主校园网络分开的高速网络 - 科学DMZ。 科学DMZ允许对达特茅斯计算群集和文件存储系统的最佳配置；从研究人员的工作流程中减轻文件存储和移动问题；并为未来的系统增长和创新提供了坚固且安全的科学网络骨干。 科学DMZ网络将大大提高达特茅斯（Dartmouth）进行的科学研究的步伐。 特别是，科学DMZ将大大扩展500多名本科生的能力，他们每年进行独立研究，并在达特茅斯的毕业生和专业课程中的研究生来完成工作。