CC-NIE Networking Infrastructure: Establishing a Science DMZ for Research in Coastal, Marine, Atmospheric, Environmental, and Geospatial Computing Sciences

该项目通过在德克萨斯农工大学科珀斯克里斯蒂分校建立一个高速科学非军事区，促进科学家在环境研究方面的国家和国际合作，科珀斯克里斯蒂是一个新兴的研究机构，其研究重点是墨西哥湾及其资源。科学DMZ旨在科学家之间安全可靠地共享数据，用于沿海，海洋，大气和环境科学等各个领域的研究。这个新的网络基础设施旨在促进德克萨斯州A M大学系统机构（11所大学和1个健康科学中心）的所有科学研究人员之间的连接。在某种程度上，高速科学DMZ网络被设计成与现有的校园网络基础设施物理分离，以确保高数据速率，可靠性和安全性。光纤链路，高性能交换机和高性能路由器，所有的副本，用于连接四个主要的科学和工程建筑物的科学DMZ，从而实现高可靠性和两倍的数据速率。进出科学DMZ的流量没有防火墙，因此允许科学数据的自由流动。相反，科学DMZ及其数据服务器的安全性是通过入侵检测系统对传入和传出流量的被动监视来提供的。InCommon身份验证系统允许外部协作者访问数据中心的资源。该项目将把该大学转变为环境研究数据的主要来源，为少数民族学生创造研究机会，通过合作扩大地球仪所有关键环境研究领域的研究，并改善数据流，以更好地传播正在进行的研究成果。

This project facilitates national and international collaborations among scientists for environmental research by establishing a high-speed Science DMZ at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, an emerging research institution, whose research focus is on the Gulf of Mexico and its resources. The Science DMZ is designed to securely and reliably share data among scientists for research in various fields such as coastal, marine, atmospheric, and environmental sciences. This new cyberinfrastructure is aimed to promote connectivity among all scientific researchers in the Texas A&M University system institutions - 11 universities and 1 Health Science Center. The high-speed Science DMZ network, to some extent, is designed to be physically separate from the existing campus-wide network infrastructure to ensure high data rate, reliability, and security. Fiber optic links, high-performance switches, and high-performance routers, all in duplicate, are used to connect four major science and engineering buildings to the Science DMZ thus achieving high reliability and double data rate. Traffic to and from the Science DMZ are not firewalled, thus allowing free flow of science data. Instead, security of the Science DMZ and its data servers are provided by passive monitoring of incoming as well as outgoing traffic by an intrusion detection system. The InCommon authentication system allows external collaborators to access resources at the data centers. The project will transform the university into a major source of environmental research data, create research opportunities for its minority student body, expand research in all key environmental research areas around the globe through collaboration, and improve data flow for greater dissemination of ongoing research findings.