HMSC Cyberinfrastructure upgrade

海洋生境、近岸生态系统和沿海社区面临威胁其可持续性的巨大压力。明智地管理海洋资源所需的大胆创新方法越来越受到数据驱动，海洋研究人员现在正在生成和分析大量数据集。俄勒冈州立大学哈特菲尔德海洋科学中心（HMSC -http://hmsc.oregonstate.edu）带来了50年的合作海洋研究，以应对这些关键问题，创新的想法，但老化的设施不是为现在和未来的大数据需求而设计的。该HMSC通信网络基础设施现代化项目将改善HMSC校园内所有联邦、州和大学建筑之间的光纤网络连接，以消除HMSC的协作和大数据传输障碍，并补充俄勒冈州州立大学（OSU）即将进行的投资。培养下一代领导者，他们可以利用这些数据密集型工具，在设计多管齐下的21世纪世纪解决方案时，将社会科学和自然科学联系起来，这对我们国家的可持续未来至关重要。作为一所赠地/赠海大学，俄勒冈州立大学的哈特菲尔德海洋科学中心在研究和培训以及公共教育和青年，家庭和成年人的外展方面表现出色。游客中心每年接待150，000名游客和40，000名来自K-12班级的学生，并通过广泛的合作伙伴关系，包括海洋科学教育卓越中心，太平洋合作伙伴关系（COSEE）和俄勒冈州海岸STEM中心（K-12），该项目将取代老化和小型光纤基础设施，为以太网时代之前的日子而建造，光纤安装旨在允许带宽立即增加20倍？而且还允许将来的实际上无限的缩放增加。这种新的网络基础设施将能够通过可扩展性充分支持当前以及未来的科学和教育需求。该项目将首先在HMSC建筑物之间建立一个管道网络，以取代老化的直埋光纤基础设施。这将通过现代化的骨干拱顶和管道设计来完成，以允许未来的改进，而无需大量的再投资。然后，单模光纤束将通过拱顶和管道部署到每个建筑物。最后，现代化的交换设备将被实施，以实现这种新光纤的全部潜力，使其能够提供和聚合高速连接到HMSC建筑物中的各个端口。此外，该设备将支持MPLS，并将HMSC完全集成到基于MPLS的OSU架构中。的新的核心网络，包括研究网络俄勒冈州立大学已建成通过美国国家科学基金会的CC-NIE赠款。这些改进将使HMSC和50英里外的OSU主校区之间计划的OSU资助的暗光纤网络路径得到充分利用，这将使HMSC的带宽需求几乎无限增长。它们还将使HMSC与OSU的核心网络完全集成？的科瓦利斯校园，包括通过NSF CC-NIE（校园网络基础设施-网络基础设施和工程）赠款建造的40 Gb/s研究网络。该项目将是HMSC现代网络基础设施的所有组成部分的最后一部分，使其能够以当前和未来大数据需求所需的最大容量全面运作和集成。

Marine habitats, nearshore ecosystems and coastal communities face daunting pressures that threaten their sustainability. The bold, innovative approaches needed to manage the ocean's resources wisely are increasingly data driven, with marine researchers now generating and analyzing vast datasets. The OSU Hatfield Marine Science Center (HMSC - http://hmsc.oregonstate.edu) brings 50 years of collaborative marine research to bear on these critical issues, with innovative ideas but aged facilities not designed for the Big Data needs of the present and future. This HMSC communication cyberinfrastructure modernization project will improve the fiber network connections between all federal, state and university buildings on the HMSC campus to remove barriers to collaboration and Big Data transfer at HMSC, and complement upcoming investments by Oregon State University (OSU). Training the next generation of leaders who can utilize these data intensive tools to bridge the social and natural sciences in designing multi-pronged, 21st century solutions is imperative to a sustainable future for our nation. As a land grant/sea grant university, OSU's Hatfield Marine Science Center excels in research and training, as well as public education and outreach for youth, families, and adults. The Visitor Center hosts 150,000 visitors and 40,000 students from K-12 classes annually, and through extensive partnerships including with the Center for Ocean Sciences Education Excellence, Pacific Partnerships (COSEE) and the Oregon Coast STEM Hub (K-12), is uniquely positioned to rapidly communicate research findings to visitors and stakeholders.This project will replace an aging and minor fiber infrastructure built for the pre-ethernet days with a fiber installation designed to allow an immediate 20X increase in bandwidth ? but also allowing for virtually unlimited scaling increases for the future. This new cyberinfrastructure will be capable of fully supporting current, as well as future science and education needs through expandability. The project will first build a conduit network between HMSC buildings to replace an ageing direct buried fiber infrastructure. This will be done with a modern backbone vault and conduit design to permit future improvements without significant reinvestment. Then, bundles of single mode fibers will be deployed through the vaults and conduits to each building. Finally, modern switching equipment will be implemented to realize the full potential of this new fiber, making it possible to provision and aggregate high speed connections to individual ports in HMSC buildings. In addition, this equipment will support MPLS and fully integrate HMSC into the MPLS-based architecture of OSU?s new core network including the research network OSU has built through an NSF CC-NIE grant. These improvements will enable full utilization of an OSU-funded dark fiber network path planned between HMSC and the main OSU campus 50 miles away, which will allow virtually unlimited bandwidth growth on demand to HMSC. They will also enable full integration of HMSC with the core network on OSU?s Corvallis campus, including the 40 Gb/s research network built through an NSF CC-NIE (Campus Cyberinfrastructure - Network Infrastructure and Engineering) grant. This project will be the final piece enabling all components of this modern cyberinfrastructure for HMSC to become fully operational and integrated at the maximal capacity needed for current and future Big Data needs.