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

位于马亚圭斯的波多黎各大学（UPRM）的SciNet项目旨在建立一个先进的网络基础设施，以支持科学和工程研究。SciNet是一个高速，无摩擦的科学DMZ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计算机和科学仪器的便捷使用，以帮助科学家分析实验数据。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DMZ模型通过提供专门用于科学流量的安全、高速、无摩擦、独立的网络段来解决这个问题。SciNet由六个接入点（PoA）组成，战略性地位于研究人员在基因测序，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进行数据密集型工作的建筑物。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。 SciNet旨在接受额外的PoA，并与另一个机构的科学DMZ对等。因此，它使来自其他机构的合作者能够利用普审机制的现有基础设施。因此，SciNet是一个关键的推动者，以帮助教师和学生在UPRM，这是一个西班牙裔服务机构，成为参与国家研究计划，特别是在高社会影响的领域，如遗传学，能源，环境科学和计算机技术。

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.