CC*IIE Region: Southern Partnership in Advanced Networking (SPAN)

CC*IIE 区域：高级网络南方合作伙伴关系 (SPAN)

• 批准号: 1440659
• 负责人: James Bottum
• 金额: $ 14.9万
• 依托单位: Clemson University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-09-01 至 2018-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1440659&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CC; IIE; Region; Southern; Partnership

The Southern Partnership in Advanced Networking (SPAN) supports the increasingly critical role that access to distributed data/compute-intensive infrastructure, both technical and human, is playing in research and education endeavors across a wide range of disciplines. As campus IT groups around the country build and expand infrastructure components to address the needs of their users, coordination between and across campuses has become critical to create successful, sustainable, scalable, and flexible solutions that can be implemented in multiple settings. Tying this infrastructure together is the network, which has become an essential piece of the cyberinfrastructure ecosystem.SPAN is a partnership between Clemson University, South Carolina State University, Georgia State University, and the University of Georgia that is building a regional community of practitioners across the South that supports next-generation networking. In collaboration with the Southern Crossroads initiative, Internet2, and ESnet, SPAN offers a program of workshops, site visits, and best practices documentation to administrators, campus IT groups, and researchers at institutions across the South that includes hands-on training, expert presentations, and in situ recommendations on topics such as network upgrades and cybersecurity to assist in the development and deployment of their own Campus Cyberinfrastructure Plans.Significantly, SPAN facilitates the creation of distributed science communities and enables new collaborations that can leverage advanced networking solutions to make new science discoveries. The creation of this regional network of expertise distributed across multiple institutions in support of faculty-led research that benefits from advanced networking capabilities will transform the way research is done across the region.

南方高级网络伙伴关系(SPAN)支持访问分布式数据/计算密集型基础设施(包括技术和人力)在各种学科的研究和教育工作中发挥着越来越重要的作用。随着全国各地的园区IT团队构建和扩展基础设施组件以满足其用户的需求，园区之间和园区之间的协调对于创建可在多种环境中实施的成功、可持续、可扩展和灵活的解决方案至关重要。将这些基础设施连接在一起的是网络，该网络已成为网络基础设施生态系统的重要组成部分。SPAN是克莱姆森大学、南卡罗来纳州立大学、佐治亚州立大学和佐治亚大学之间的合作伙伴关系，正在整个南方建立一个支持下一代网络的地区性从业者社区。SPAN与南方十字路口计划、Internet2和ESnet合作，为南方各地的管理人员、校园IT小组和机构的研究人员提供研讨会、现场访问和最佳实践文档计划，其中包括动手培训、专家演示和关于网络升级和网络安全等主题的现场建议，以帮助他们自己的校园网络基础设施计划的开发和部署。重要的是，SPAN促进了分布式科学社区的创建，并使新的协作能够利用先进的网络解决方案来做出新的科学发现。创建这个分布在多个机构的地区性专业知识网络，以支持教师主导的研究，并受益于先进的网络功能，将改变整个地区的研究方式。