CIF21 DIBBs: EI: North East Storage Exchange

为了灵活地利用大量的数字信息，研究进展越来越依赖于可用的存储容量。东北存储交换（NESE）项目创建了下一代存储基础设施，专门针对在经常涉及pb级信息的项目中实现新水平的协作研究。这种存储交换将与连接哈佛大学、波士顿大学、麻省理工学院（MIT）、东北大学和麻省理工大学系统的计算和网络基础设施集成。该项目有助于建立一个国家数据基础设施，以支持在保健、流行病学、物理学和地球科学等优先主题方面的先进研究。NESE将提供一个高容量、高度网络化、安全、经济、可扩展和可访问的数据存储，降低参与多大学社区内部和外部研究、协作和信息共享的障碍。将成为NESE早期用户的NESE项目的一些例子包括：存储和处理来自大型强子对撞机的ATLAS数据的四个美国Tier 2中心之一；哈佛大学脑科学中心（Center for Brain Science）正在生成3亿张微米分辨率的图像，以绘制构成一立方毫米人脑的10亿个神经元和突触；麻省理工学院与NASA和DARPA合作开发下一代全球海洋建模和监测系统。NESE解决了几个关键的基础设施挑战：创建可持续的多机构资源；数据保存、管理和获取敏感研究数据方法的进步；实施简化敏感数据保护的控制措施；并建立一个可持续的、协作的运营基础设施，以支持未来的研究。该奖项由高级网络基础设施部颁发，由NSF生物科学理事会（生物基础设施部）和NSF理解大脑和大脑倡议活动共同支持。

Research progress is increasingly dependent upon the available capacity of storage to flexibly exploit large volumes of digital information. The North East Storage Exchange (NESE) project creates a next-generation storage infrastructure specifically targeted at enabling new levels of collaborative research in projects regularly involving petabytes of information. This storage exchange will integrate with a computational and network infrastructure that links Harvard University, Boston University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Northeastern University and the University of Massachusetts system. This project contributes to building a national data infrastructure to support advanced research in such priority topics as health care, epidemiology, physics, and earth science, among others.NESE will provide a high capacity, highly networked, secure, cost effective, scalable, and accessible data store that lowers barriers to research, collaboration, and information sharing within and beyond the participating multi-university community. Some examples of NESE projects that will be early users of NESE include one of the four US Tier 2 centers that store and process ATLAS data from the Large Hadron Collider; the Center for Brain Science at Harvard University, which is generating 300 million micron-resolution images to map the billion neurons and synapses that make up a cubic millimeter of the human brain; and MIT collaborations with NASA and DARPA in next generation global ocean modeling and monitoring systems. NESE addresses several critical infrastructural challenges: the creation of a sustainable multi-institutional resource; advancement of methods for data retention, management, and access to sensitive research data; implementation of controls that simplify protection of sensitive data; and building a sustainable, collaborative operating infrastructure to support future research.This award by the Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Division is jointly supported by the NSF Directorate for Biological Sciences (Division of Biological Infrastructure), and by NSF's Understanding the Brain and BRAIN initiative activities.