Improving Infrastructure for Data Access, Storage and Recovery, and Network Communication at Stroud Water Research Center

改善斯特劳德沃特研究中心的数据访问、存储和恢复以及网络通信基础设施

• 批准号: 1522479
• 负责人: David Arscott
• 金额: $ 5.47万
• 依托单位: Stroud Water Research Center
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-08-01 至 2016-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1522479&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Improving; Infrastructure; Data; Access; Storage

A significant challenge for independent biological field stations, such as Stroud Water Research Center (SWRC; http://www.stroudcenter.org/), is maintaining advanced facilities equivalent to the unique, innovative work those facilities support. This NSF-funded project allows SWRC to address a crucial aspect of maintaining this high level of support through a comprehensive upgrade of its network infrastructure. The improvements will dramatically increase SWRC's data storage capacity, data backup and recovery equipment, and improve the wireless network system. These upgrades will not only improve the current computing environment, but also allow for future expansion to accommodate additional users and data volume. Many recent projects at SWRC, including NSF-funded projects, reflect a larger commitment to environmental monitoring and data gathering. This generates huge datasets that tax the capacity of SWRC's data and network-computing environment. Unfortunately, the infrastructure needed to support these new areas of environmental research is generally not included in externally funded projects. Specific to SWRC, this project will enhance SWRC's decades ­long commitment to maintain data access and quality, while growing SWRC's historic,"foundational" datasets which are vital to other freshwater research organizations, and inform stream ecology education, environmental public policy and watershed restoration. This project seeks to transition SWRC's current digital data storage away from an ad hoc and reactive solution to a proactive approach that includes creating a 12 terabyte (TB) Storage Area Network (SAN) array that is easily expandable to 60 TB. The second part of the project is an upgrade of the existing tape backup system (single tape drive, 800 GB individual tape capacity, manual intervention to switch tapes) to a system that has much greater capacity (multiple tape drive; 2.5 TB individual tape capacity) and is automated. The third leg of the project includes an upgrade of the wireless communication network that currently cannot meet increasing user demands. This upgrade involves a new controller that will double the number of wireless access points, will allow for increased connection speeds, and will greatly enhance the ability of both staff and guests to wirelessly connect to internal and/or external networks. The wireless upgrade also includes an outdoor­compatible access point to allow wireless coverage well beyond indoor facilities and into the SWRC experimental watershed. Outdoor wireless connections are critical to support the increasing number of outdoor education and outreach events held at SWRC and the rapidly expanding use of wireless environmental sensor arrays that SWRC is deploying throughout the experimental watershed.

对于独立生物野外站点（例如Stroud Water Research Center（SWRC; http://www.stroudcenter.org/））的一个重大挑战，它维护了相当于独特的创新工作的高级设施。这个由NSF资助的项目允许SWRC通过全面升级其网络基础架构来解决这一高度支持的关键方面。这些改进将大大提高SWRC的数据存储能力，数据备份和恢复设备，并改善无线网络系统。这些升级不仅将改善当前的计算环境，而且还可以进行将来的扩展以适应其他用户和数据量。 SWRC的许多最新项目，包括NSF资助的项目，反映了对环境监测和数据收集的更大承诺。这会产生巨大的数据集，以使SWRC数据和网络计算环境的能力征税。不幸的是，支持这些新的环境研究领域所需的基础设施通常不包括在外部资助的项目中。该项目针对SWRC，将增强SWRC数十年的长期承诺，以维持数据访问和质量，同时发展SWRC的历史性，“基础”数据集，这些数据集对其他淡水研究组织至关重要，并为流生态学教育，环境公共政策和分水岭恢复提供了信息。该项目旨在将SWRC当前的数字数据存储从临时和反应性解决方案转变为主动方法，该方法包括创建12 TBYTE（TB）存储区域网络（SAN）阵列，该阵列易于扩展到60 TB。该项目的第二部分是升级现有的磁带备份系统（单胶带驱动器，800 GB的单个磁带容量，手动干预以切换磁带）到具有更大容量（多重磁带驱动器； 2.5 TB单独的磁带容量）并自动化的系统。该项目的第三回合包括对无线通信网络的升级，目前无法满足用户需求增加。此升级涉及一个新的控制器，该控制器将使无线访问点的数量增加一倍，将允许提高连接速度，并可以极大地增强员工和客人无线连接到内部和/或外部网络的能力。还包括一个室外兼容的接入点，可允许无线覆盖范围远远超出室内设施，并进入SWRC实验分水岭。户外无线连接对于支持SWRC举行的户外教育和外展活动的数量以及SWRC在整个实验水域中部署的无线环境传感器阵列的迅速扩展。