CC*DNI Engineer: Data Safety, Transfer and Performance

现代研究越来越多地以数据为基础，无论是在物理、生物还是社会科学领域。越来越多的研究需要大量的数据进行传输、修改、同步和可靠的短期和长期存储。数字数据和数据工具的产生和使用的显著增加使许多研究人员落在后面。网络基础设施工程师（CIE）的主要任务是通过个人支持和咨询，积极参与研究人员与技术之间的互动，并就选定的主题教授入门课程，最终目标是将有用的技术带给更多的研究人员。CIE正致力于通过三个并行途径改善科学研究的数据驱动性质：1)通过部署自动化系统将大规模研究数据转移到场外系统来确保数据安全；2)通过使用目前许多研究人员不知道的最先进的工具和系统进行数据传输；3)通过扩展使用最高性能的存储、检索和超大数据集的处理来提高数据性能。UCI正在为一个大规模的校园存储池评估一些相互竞争的设计和服务，创建一个混合备份系统，在通过我们的nsf资助的科学DMZ （UCI- lightpath）将数据发送到更长期、更便宜的云备份系统之前，在本地缓存数据，并自动化和使用现有的高速数据传输协议，使研究人员更容易利用。

Modern research is increasingly data-based, whether the endeavor is in the physical, biological, or social sciences. Increasingly that research calls for large amounts of data to be transferred, modified, synced, and reliably stored for both the short and long term. The remarkable increase in both the generation and use of digital data and data tools has left many researchers behind. The primary mission of the CyberInfrastructure Engineer (CIE) is to significantly engage in the interaction between researcher and technology via personal support and consultation, and to teach introductory classes on selected topics, with a net goal of bringing useful technologies to more researchers.The CIE is working to improve the data-driven nature of scientific research in three parallel avenues: 1) data safety through the deployment of automated systems to move large scale research data to off-site systems; 2) data transfer through the use of state-of-the-art tools and systems currently unknown to many researchers; and, 3) data performance by expanded use of the highest-performance storage, retrieval, and processing of very large datasets. UCI is evaluating a number of competing designs and services for a large-scale campus storage pool, creating a hybrid backup system that caches data locally before sending it on via our NSF-funded Science DMZ (UCI-LightPath) to longer-term, less-expensive, Cloud backup systems, and automating and using existing high speed data transfer protocols to be much easier for researchers to take advantage of.