CC-NIE Network Infrastructure: Enabling Big-Data Science Collaboration at Georgetown

乔治敦大学正在升级主校区和医疗中心校区的高端网络，以支持理科教师。这些教员经常跨校园、学科内和跨学科，以及与其他大学、一般私人研究机构和国家实验室的同事合作，研究复杂的物理、基因组学、功能磁共振成像、互联网搜索索引和其他计算密集型主题。这些网络改进使州立大学的科学大楼、园区主干、校外数据中心、大西洋中部十字路口(MAX)Gigapop和Internet2之间实现了端到端的10 Gbps连接。提供1Gbps或10Gbps连接以选择建筑物内的位置。共享和分析大数据集并传播研究结果的能力促进了对科学和技术的理解。州立大学科学设施的改善导致了本科生和研究生的申请和入学人数的增加。这个基础设施的设计是为了进一步支持广州大学的STEM研究和教育。过去5年的投资使计算机科学系的教员规模翻了一番；建造了一座生物、化学和物理的新大楼；并增强了支持研究的其他基础设施，包括支持计算核心设施，创建了隔离的安全研究网络，并增加了数据存储容量。这一奖项使300多名主校园和医学中心的研究人员能够在校园内协作并广泛分享他们的工作，连接设备，增强他们与校外研究人员合作的能力，并使毗邻的医学校园内的广泛基础科学研究受益。

Georgetown is upgrading high-end networking across the main and medical center campuses to support science faculty. These faculty routinely collaborate across the campuses, within and across disciplines, and with colleagues at other universities, at-large private research facilities, and National Labs as they research complex physics, genomics, functional magnetic resonance imaging, Internet search indexing, and other computationally-intensive topics. These network improvements enable end-to-end 10 Gbps connectivity among GU's science buildings, campus backbone, off-campus data center, Mid-Atlantic Crossroads (MAX) Gigapop, and Internet2. 1Gbps or 10Gbps connections are provided to select locations within the buildings. The ability to share and analyze large datasets, and disseminate findings advances scientific and technological understanding. Improvements in GU's science facilities have led to increased applications and enrollments of undergraduate and graduate STEM students. This infrastructure is designed to further bolster STEM research and education at GU. Investments during the past 5 years have doubled the size of faculty in the Computer Science Department; built a new building for biology, chemistry, and physics; and enhanced other infrastructure to support research, including support of a computational core facility, creating an isolated security research network, and increased data storage capacity. This award is enabling over 300 Main Campus and Medical Center researchers to collaborate and broadly share their work on campus, connect equipment, enhance their ability to collaborate with researchers off campus, as well as benefit extensive basic sciences research on the contiguous medical campus.