CC-NIE Networking Infrastructure: UCI LightPath: A Dedicated Campus Science DMZ Network for Big Data Transfer

该项目在加州大学欧文分校建立了一个新的科学DMZ网络基础设施，具有更高的带宽（UCI LightPath），以满足校园内外对带宽和数据传输性能日益增长的需求。该项目还实施了一条从校园到加州研究和教育网络（CalREN-HPR）高性能研究层的10Gbps新链路，以促进科学数据的传输和分析。通过避免数据传输路径中的瓶颈和潜在的性能影响设备，这些对网络基础设施的改进大大增强和加快了科学数据的传输。该项目允许校园IT人员探索和部署新技术，如软件定义网络（SDN）和IPv6，并与研究人员合作，以更好地支持他们的研究活动。改进后的Science DMZ网络基础设施通过实现更复杂的大数据集建模和分析，并促进大型强子对撞机实验粒子物理、基因组学和生物信息学、水文建模和遥感、液体燃料的流动和燃烧动力学、生物分子模拟等领域的合作研究小组之间的数据交换，直接影响了校园内各种尖端数据密集型研究工作。气候模型和宇宙学。该项目通过信息技术办公室有组织的IT勤工俭学计划，将IT研究和教育结合起来，为培训未来的网络工程师和运营商提供了一个平台。该项目还支持现有的K-12外展项目，使实验室创建的数据能够转移到他们的课程中使用。

This project establishes a new Science DMZ network infrastructure with increased bandwidth (UCI LightPath) at the University of California, Irvine to address the increasing demand for bandwidth and data-transfer performance within and beyond campus. The project also implements a new 10Gbps link from campus to the High Performance Research tier of the California Research and Education Network (CalREN-HPR) to boost science data transfer and analysis. Together these improvements to the networking infrastructure significantly enhance and expedite scientific data transfer by avoiding bottlenecks and potential performance impacting devices in the data-transfer path. The project allows campus IT personnel to explore and deploy new technologies such as the Software Defined Network (SDN) and IPv6, and to collaborate with researchers to better support their research activities.The improved Science DMZ network infrastructure directly impacts a variety of cutting-edge data intensive research efforts across campus by enabling more complex modeling and analysis of big data sets, and facilitating data exchange among collaborative research groups in the areas of Experimental Particle Physics at the Large Hadron Collider, Genomics and Bioinformatics, Hydrologic Modeling and Remote Sensing, Flow and Combustion Dynamics of Liquid Fuels, Biomolecular Simulations, Climate Modeling, and Cosmology. This project integrates IT research and education through an organized IT work-study program in the Office of Information Technology, which provides a platform to train future network engineers and operators. The project also supports existing K-12 outreach programs by enabling the transfer of data created in the lab to the programs for use in their curricula.