CC*DNI Networking Infrastructure: Dedicated High-Speed Research and Education Network Connection

该项目为南伊利诺伊大学爱德华斯维尔(SIUE)提供了与位于伊利诺伊州芝加哥的中西部地区教育网络(MREN)的直接连接，Internet2和其他研究网络在那里是对等的。该项目包括购买路由设备和PerfSONAR服务器来测量到远程位置的连接速度。这种新连接将当前与商业互联网流量共享的连接速度提高到Internet2的10倍，使研究人员、教师和学生能够更快地访问远程资源和合作者。这有利于正在进行的研究和教学活动，其中包括：了解X射线条件下的超强激光-团簇相互作用，确定纳米颗粒掺杂对液晶系统的影响，利用美国国家科学基金会资助的蓝水设备进行结构功能研究(使用丙型肝炎病毒作为模型系统)，以及阿尔日默氏病的药物测试，以及美国国立卫生研究院(NIH)资助的ANTON系统，以了解纳米分子开关的详细行为。将进行信息会议、教师意识和使用调查，以记录更多教师在研究和教学活动中增加对校外计算资源和数据传输能力的使用。

This project provides Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE) a direct connection to the Midwest Regional Education Network (MREN) in Chicago, IL where Internet2 and other research networks peer. The project includes purchases of routing equipment and PerfSONAR servers to measure the connection speeds to remote locations.This new connection offers a 10x speed increase to Internet2 from current connections that are shared with commodity Internet traffic, providing researchers, faculty, and students faster access to remote resources and collaborators. This benefits the ongoing research and teaching activities, which include: understanding ultra intense laser-cluster interactions in the X-ray regime, determining the effects of nanoparticle doping on liquid crystal systems, using the NSF funded BlueWaters facility for structure-function studies (using the hepatitis C virus as a model system) and also drug testing for alzhimer's disease, as well as the NIH (NIGMS) funded ANTON system to understand the detailed behavior of a nanobiomolecular switch. Informational sessions, faculty awareness, and use surveys will be performed to document increased use of off-campus computing resources and data transfer capabilities by additional faculty for research and teaching activities.