CC*IIE Networking Infrastructure: Riverfront Campus Research Network

传输或共享大量数据的能力已经成为科学和工程学科的一个重要限制因素。该项目“CC * IIE网络基础设施：河滨校园研究网络”消除了新杜兰河滨卓越中心（RFCOE）的这些网络障碍，增强了校园内外的研究人员能力。增强的实验自由和提高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，使利用计算资源的大学人口的扩大。受益于这一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的沉积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。该项目延伸了杜兰专用的高-此外，该公司还向RFCOE提供了高速科学网络和新的杜兰HPC资源，使研究人员能够访问高性能计算机，并将其连接到本地、区域和国家资源。它解决了“最后一米”的问题，使研究人员能够从他们的工作站，实验室和仪器提供10千兆位连接，并通过40 Gbps上行链路连接到杜兰大学的新HPC集群，通过路易斯安那州光网络计划（LONI）的区域机构，以及与Internet 2（I2）对等的国家中心，包括极端科学和工程发现环境（XSEDE）联盟的成员。

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.