CC*IIE Campus Design: Upgrading the Juniata Collaborative Science Infrastructure

CC*IIE 校园设计：升级 Juniata 协作科学基础设施

• 批准号: 1440729
• 负责人: Jill Keeney
• 金额: $ 34.99万
• 依托单位: Juniata College
• 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 2017-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1440729&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CC; IIE; Campus; Design; Upgrading

This project upgrades the campus network for Juniata College to 10Gbps and establishes a connection to Internet2 via 3ROX. Juniata College hosts a high capacity compute cluster for a consortium of undergraduate institutions working in genomics research. The Genome Consortium for Active Teaching, using high throughput Next Generating Sequencing (GCAT-SEEK), provides sequencing technologies and genomic analysis training to faculty and students to support on-going research projects at 132 partnering institutions. Campus networking improvements enable greater end-to-end performance and reliability for students and research users of the compute cluster, and improves network-based access to central resources for computational biology required for research projects involving analysis and comparison of whole genome data sets. The expanded network is an essential advancement as it allows teams of faculty and students to participate in cutting-edge genomics research projects and provide authentic research experiences to undergraduates at the partnering institutions. The increased network capacity enhances undergraduate classroom teaching, enabling students from multiple institutions to simultaneously access the software and computational resources of the compute cluster. The cyber infrastructure improvements include the expansion of the internal local area network (LAN), an increase in Internet2 connectivity, and connections to resources within larger frameworks at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center. This strategy presents a financially-feasible model for increased Internet2 connectivity that may be adopted by other small institutions. Design, manuals and tutorials are made available to partnering institutions. GCAT-SEEK activities also include studies of the broader ethical, legal and social implications of advances in the field of genomics. Addressing these topics is critical for training the next generation of scientists, physicians and healthcare policy experts.

该项目将Juniata学院的校园网络升级到10 Gbps，并通过3ROX建立到Internet 2的连接。Juniata College为从事基因组学研究的本科院校联盟提供高容量计算集群。基因组联盟积极教学，使用高通量下一代测序（GCAT-SEEK），提供测序技术和基因组分析培训的教师和学生，以支持正在进行的研究项目在132个合作机构。校园网络的改进为计算集群的学生和研究用户提供了更高的端到端性能和可靠性，并改善了对涉及全基因组数据集分析和比较的研究项目所需的计算生物学中心资源的基于网络的访问。扩大的网络是一个重要的进步，因为它允许教师和学生团队参与尖端的基因组学研究项目，并为合作机构的本科生提供真实的研究经验。增加的网络容量增强了本科课堂教学，使来自多个机构的学生能够同时访问计算集群的软件和计算资源。网络基础设施的改进包括内部局域网（LAN）的扩展，Internet 2连接的增加，以及与匹兹堡超级计算中心更大框架内的资源的连接。这一战略提出了一个财政上可行的模式，以增加互联网2的连接，可由其他小型机构采用。向伙伴机构提供设计、手册和教程。GCAT-SEEK的活动还包括研究基因组学领域的进步所产生的更广泛的伦理、法律的和社会影响。解决这些问题对于培养下一代科学家，医生和医疗保健政策专家至关重要。