CC*IIE Networking Infrastructure: SciNet: A ScienceDMZ for Science and Engineering Research at University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez

波多黎各大学马亚圭斯分校(UPRM)的科学网络项目寻求建立一个先进的网络基础设施，以支持科学和工程研究。本网络是一个高速、无摩擦的科学非军事区网络，旨在互连计算机集群、存储系统、基因测序仪、海洋传感器和UPRM提供的其他科学仪器。现代研究工作依赖于随时可以使用计算机和科学仪器来帮助科学家分析他们实验产生的数据。由于当前的带宽限制，计算机网络已成为该基础设施中的系统瓶颈。科学非军事区模型通过提供专用于科学流量的安全、高速、无摩擦、独立的网段来解决这一问题。本网络由六个访问点(PoA)组成，这些建筑战略性地安置着研究人员，他们正在进行基因测序、高能物理、计算化学、流体力学、海洋学、生物信息学、网络和大数据分析方面的数据密集型工作。每个POA由网络交换机、高速存储设备和监控工具组成，以确保正常运行。本网络旨在接受更多的POA，并与另一家机构的科学非军事区相媲美。因此，它使其他机构的合作者能够使用UPRM现有的基础设施。因此，本网络是帮助拉美裔服务机构UPRM的教职员工和学生参与国家研究活动的关键推动因素，特别是在遗传学、能源、环境科学和计算机技术等具有高度社会影响的领域。

The SciNet Project at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez (UPRM) seeks to build an advanced networking infrastructure to support science and engineering research. SciNet is a high-speed, frictionless Science DMZ network, designed to interconnect computer clusters, storage systems, gene sequencers, oceanographic sensors, and other scientific instruments available at UPRM. Modern research efforts depend upon readily access to computers and scientific instruments to help scientists analyze data resulting from their experiments. The computer network has emerged as the system bottleneck in this infrastructure due to current bandwidth limitations. The Science DMZ model has emerged as a solution to this problem by providing a secure, high-speed, frictionless, separate network segment that is dedicated exclusively to science traffic. SciNet consists of six points of access (PoAs) strategically located at the buildings housing researchers performing data intensive work in gene sequencing, high-energy physics, computational chemistry, fluid mechanics, oceanography, bioinformatics, networking, and big data analytics. Each PoA consists of a networking switch, high-speed storage equipment, and monitoring tools to ensure proper operation. SciNet is designed to accept additional PoAs and be peered with the Science DMZ of another institution. Thus, it enables collaborators from other institutions to access the infrastructure available at UPRM. Therefore, SciNet is a key enabler to help faculty and students at UPRM, which is a Hispanic-serving institution, become involved in national research initiatives, particularly in fields of high societal impacts such as genetics, energy, environmental sciences, and computer technology.