CC*IIE Networking Infrastructure: Enabling and Improving Data-Driven Research at Texas State University

如今，数据已经融入了我们社会的每个部门和功能。德克萨斯州立大学的研究人员在利用大数据解决生物化学、生物学、地理、计算机科学、金融与经济学、数学和信息系统等领域的一些最紧迫的挑战方面处于领先地位。然而，目前德克萨斯州的网络基础设施和连接能力对涉及大数据的研究项目和多个机构之间共享大量数据的合作存在障碍。该项目开发了一个高速校园网络基础设施，以实现和改善德克萨斯州立大学的数据驱动研究。它支持立即的10Gb容量和将来的100Gb容量，并在校园网上创建一个专门用于研究数据的科学DMZ，以允许研究人员通过网络以更快的速度与同行交换大型数据集。该基础设施增强并更好地促进了德克萨斯州立大学跨广泛学科的大数据研究，具有显著的社会效益，使所有其他德克萨斯州立大学系统成员机构能够建立类似的环境，以满足他们的研究和教育需求，推进研究和教育的整合，促进跨机构合作。并将大大提高德克萨斯州立大学及其他学校目前的大数据研究和教学能力。

Data are now woven into every sector and function in our society. Texas State researchers are pioneering in solving some of the most pressing challenges using big data in the fields of Biochemistry, Biology, Geography, Computer Science, Finance and Economics, Mathematics, and Information Systems. Nonetheless, the current Texas State cyberinfrastructure and connectivity capacity present obstacles to the research projects involving big data and the collaborations among multiple institutions sharing massive amounts of data. This project develops a high-speed campus network infrastructure to enable and improve data-driven research at Texas State. It enables immediate 10Gb capability and 100Gb in the future, and creates a Science DMZ on the campus network dedicated to research data to allow researchers to exchange large datasets with their peers over the network at a much faster speed. The infrastructure enhances and better facilitates big data research across a wide range of disciplines at Texas State with notable societal benefits, enables all other Texas State University System member institutions to establish similar environments to accommodate their research and education needs, advances the integration of research and education, promotes cross-institutional collaborations, and will significantly enhance the current big data research and teaching capabilities at Texas State and beyond.