CC*IIE Networking Infrastructure: Riverfront Campus Research Network

传输或共享大量数据的能力已经成为跨科学和工程学科的一个重要限制因素。这个名为“CC*IIE网络基础设施：河滨校园研究网络”的项目消除了新杜兰大学河滨卓越中心（RFCOE）的这些网络障碍，增强了校园内外研究人员的能力。增强的实验自由和增强的技术能力加强了正在进行的研究，并将激发新的合作和调查，从而扩大利用计算资源的大学人口。受益于这种增加的功能的项目对更大社区的利益产生了巨大的影响，包括对密西西比河三角洲沉积物动力学和定量地层学的研究，以及伍兹霍尔全球河流观测站项目，以了解气候变化，森林砍伐和其他当代环境问题影响河流化学和陆地-海洋联系的方式。该项目将杜兰大学专用高速科学网络和新的杜兰大学高性能计算机资源扩展到RFCOE，使研究人员能够访问高性能计算机，将它们连接到本地、区域和国家资源。它解决了“最后一米”的问题，允许研究人员从他们的工作站、实验室和仪器提供一个10千兆的连接，以40Gbps的上行链路连接到杜兰大学的新HPC集群，通过路易斯安那光网络倡议（LONI）的区域机构，以及与包括极端科学与工程发现环境（XSEDE）联盟成员在内的第二代互联网（I2）对等的国家中心。

The ability to transfer or share large amounts of data has become a significant limiting factor across science and engineering disciplines. The project, "CC*IIE Networking Infrastructure: Riverfront Campus Research Network," removes these network impediments at the new Tulane Riverfront Center of Excellence (RFCOE), enhancing researchers capabilities both within the borders of the campus and beyond. Enhanced experimental freedom and increased technological capabilities strengthen ongoing research and will inspire new collaborations and investigations enabling the expansion of the university population that utilizes computational resources. The projects that benefit from this increased functionality have tremendous impacts on the interests of the greater community, including an examination of sediment dynamics and quantitative stratigraphy in the Mississippi River Delta and the Woods Hole Global Rivers Observatory project to understand the ways climate change, deforestation, and other contemporary environmental concerns impact river chemistry and land-ocean linkages.This project extends the Tulane dedicated high-speed science network and the new Tulane HPC resource to the RFCOE, enabling researchers' access to high performance computers, connecting them to local, regional, and national resources. It addresses the "last meter" problem, allowing researchers to provision a 10-gigabit connection from their workstations, laboratories and instruments with a 40Gbps uplink to Tulane's new HPC cluster, regional institutions through the Louisiana Optical Network Initiative (LONI), and national centers that peer with Internet2 (I2) including members of the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) consortium.