IRNC: Backbone: NEAAR: Networks for European, American, and African Research

IRNC：骨干：NEAAR：欧洲、美国和非洲研究网络

• 批准号: 1638863
• 负责人: Jennifer Schopf
• 金额: $ 325万
• 依托单位: Indiana University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-09-01 至 2022-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1638863&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: IRNC; Backbone; NEAAR; Networks; European

The Networks for European, American, and African Research (NEAAR) collaboration is a powerful, cross organizational project that will provide services and bandwidth connecting researchers in the US with their counterparts in Europe and Africa. This project will have an immediate impact on the research environment and also supports future application and technology advances. Indiana University (IU) jointly leads the NEAAR collaboration with GÉANT, the European research and education network (REN), in a cooperative partnership with the African regional RENs: the UbuntuNet Alliance, the Arab States Research and Education Network (ASREN), the West and Central African Research and Education Network (WACREN), as well as the South African National Research Network (SANReN) and the Tertiary Education and Research Network of South Africa (TENET). IU also coordinates domestically with Internet2 and the Energy Sciences Network (ESnet). Through its extensive regional partnerships, NEAAR has the potential to reach research and education (R&E) communities in over 80 countries across three continents.NEAAR has the potential to be transformational to NSF-funded science by providing not only the network but also the human expertise to make the most of international collaborations and data sharing, thereby increasing research and educational opportunities. Through additional capacity to Europe and targeted support of data and networking support services in Africa, NEAAR will be able to support the majority of the NSF-funded research sharing between Africa and the US. IU has identified over 60 preliminary groups to work directly with to increase their data capacity and ability to collaborate. Advanced data sharing fundamentally changes and extends the research that is feasible between partners, and NEAAR has the potential to have an unprecedented impact on US-Africa collaboration.

欧洲、美洲和非洲研究合作网络(NEAAR)是一个强大的跨组织项目，将提供服务和带宽，将美国的研究人员与欧洲和非洲的研究人员连接起来。该项目将对研究环境产生立竿见影的影响，并支持未来的应用和技术进步。印第安纳大学(IU)与欧洲研究和教育网络(REN)、非洲地区RENS(UbuntuNet联盟、阿拉伯国家研究和教育网络(ASREN)、西非和中部非洲研究和教育网络(WACREN)以及南非国家研究网络(SANREN)和南非高等教育和研究网络(TENET))建立了合作伙伴关系，共同领导了NEAAR的合作。国际能源署还在国内与Internet2和能源科学网络(ESnet)进行协调。通过其广泛的区域伙伴关系，NEAAR有可能接触到三大洲80多个国家的研究和教育(R&A；E；E)社区。NEAAR不仅提供网络，而且提供人类专业知识，最大限度地利用国际合作和数据共享，从而增加研究和教育机会，从而有可能向NSF资助的科学转型。通过向欧洲提供更多的能力，并有针对性地支持非洲的数据和网络支持服务，NEAAR将能够支持非洲和美国之间由NSF资助的大部分研究共享。印第安纳大学已经确定了60多个可以直接合作的初步小组，以增加他们的数据容量和协作能力。先进的数据共享从根本上改变并扩展了合作伙伴之间可行的研究，NEAAR有可能对美非合作产生前所未有的影响。