CC* Network Design: Network Infrastructure to Support Computational Biology, Computational Science, and Computing Across the Curriculum

科尔比学院、缅因州大学和杰克逊实验室的研究伙伴关系正在建立一个专门的研究网络，以支持计算生物学、计算物理和天体物理、计算化学和机器学习方面的项目，该网络还扩展了教师在课堂上的可用能力，使更复杂和现代的课堂和实验室活动成为可能。该项目提供到科尔比学院所有教学楼的10 Gb网络连接，使所有教师能够访问最先进的计算和数据设施，鉴于所有学术学科更多地使用数字和计算资源的趋势，这是至关重要的。该项目还创建了一个安全的专用10 Gb研究网络，将缅因州大学的高级计算组资源和杰克逊实验室的大型基因组数据库与科尔比学院不同学科的研究人员连接起来。新的研究网络为科尔比的研究人员提供了快速访问杰克逊实验室或其他来源的GB和TB级数据集的能力，并通过高带宽和高可用性连接利用缅因州大学的高级计算资源。使用这种基础设施，研究人员能够执行分析和模拟，教授能够在课程中分配项目和练习，这是以前使用旧基础设施无法做到的。

The research partnership of Colby College, the University of Maine, and the Jackson Laboratory are building a dedicated research network to support projects in computational biology, computational physics and astrophysics, computational chemistry, and machine learning, The network is also expanding the capabilities available to faculty in the classroom, enabling more complex and modern classroom and laboratory activities.The project provides 10Gb network connectivity to all academic buildings at Colby College to give all faculty access to state-of-the-art computing and data facilities, which is critical given the trends in all academic disciplines towards greater use of digital and computing resources. The project also creates a secure dedicated 10Gb research network connecting the Advanced Computing Group resources at the University of Maine and the large genomic databases at the Jackson Laboratory with researchers in variety of disciplines at Colby College.The new research network provides the capability for researchers at Colby to obtain fast access to gigabyte and terabyte scale data sets from Jackson Laboratory or other sources and make use of advanced computing resources at the University of Maine with a high bandwidth and high availability connection. Using this infrastructure, researchers are able to execute analyses and simulations, and professors are able to assign projects and exercises in courses, that were not previously possible with the old infrastructure.