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，跨科学和社会科学产生的大数据洪流产生了非凡的新知识和经验机会，对整个社会产生了影响。 虽然高性能计算早已可用于处理如此大的数据集，但研究人员和机构必须仔细设计网络计算环境，以便实时进行有用的分析。 目前，达特茅斯此类分析的最大限制之一是将数据从生成和存储的位置转移到进行分析的位置：现在，仅将数据传输到计算机进行分析通常需要比数据到达后进行分析所需的时间更长的时间。 达特茅斯拥有许多卓越的高性能计算资产，但这些资产目前在网络上以孤岛的形式存在。 该提案支持的工作是将达特茅斯学院的高性能计算资产整合到一个高速网络（Science DMZ）上，该网络与主校园网络分开。 Science DMZ 允许达特茅斯计算集群和文件存储系统的最佳配置；减轻研究人员工作流程中的文件存储和移动问题；并为未来系统的增长和创新提供强大且安全的科学网络骨干。 科学 DMZ 网络将极大地加快达特茅斯科学研究的步伐。 特别是，科学 DMZ 将极大地扩展达特茅斯研究生和专业项目中每年进行独立研究的 500 多名本科生和研究生的能力，以完成他们的工作。