HMSC Cyberinfrastructure upgrade

海洋栖息地、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、创新的方法越来越多地受到数据的驱动，海洋研究人员现在正在生成和分析大量的数据集。俄亥俄州立大学哈特菲尔德海洋科学中心(HMSC-http://hmsc.oregonstate.edu))在这些关键问题上进行了50年的合作海洋研究，具有创新的想法，但陈旧的设施不是为现在和未来的大数据需求而设计的。这一hMSC通信网络基础设施现代化项目将改善hMSC园区内所有联邦、州和大学大楼之间的光纤网络连接，以消除hMSC协作和大数据传输的障碍，并补充俄勒冈州立大学(OSU)即将进行的投资。培养下一代领导人，他们能够利用这些数据密集型工具在设计多管齐下的21世纪解决方案方面连接社会科学和自然科学，对于我们国家的可持续未来至关重要。作为一所陆地资助/海洋资助的大学，俄亥俄州立大学哈特菲尔德海洋科学中心在研究和培训、公共教育以及面向青年、家庭和成人的推广方面表现出色。游客中心每年接待150,000名参观者和来自K-12班的40,000名学生，并通过广泛的合作伙伴关系，包括与海洋科学教育卓越中心、太平洋伙伴关系(COSEE)和俄勒冈海岸STEM中心(K-12)，处于独特的地位，可以快速向参观者和利益相关者传达研究成果。该项目将用光纤安装取代为前以太网时代建造的老化和较小的光纤基础设施，以允许带宽立即增加20倍？而且还允许在未来实现几乎无限的规模增长。这一新的网络基础设施将能够通过可扩充性完全支持当前以及未来的科学和教育需求。该项目将首先在hMSC大楼之间建立管道网络，以取代老化的直埋光纤基础设施。这将通过现代主干拱顶和管道设计来实现，以便在不进行重大再投资的情况下进行未来的改进。然后，一束束单模光纤将通过拱顶和管道部署到每座建筑。最后，将采用现代交换设备来实现这种新光纤的全部潜力，使其能够为HMSC大楼中的各个端口提供和聚合高速连接。此外，该设备将支持多协议标签交换，并将hMSC完全集成到包括OSU通过国家科学基金会CC-NIE拨款而建设的研究网络在内的OSU？S新核心网的基于MPLS的架构中。这些改进将使hMSC和50英里外的OSU主园区之间规划的由OSU资助的暗光纤网络路径得到充分利用，这将允许根据hMSC的需求实现几乎无限的带宽增长。他们还将实现HMSC与俄亥俄州立大学S科瓦利斯校区核心网络的完全集成，包括通过国家自然科学基金CC-NIE(校园网络基础设施-网络基础设施与工程)拨款建设的40 Gb/S研究网络。该项目将是最后一块，使hMSC的这一现代网络基础设施的所有组件能够完全运行并以当前和未来大数据需求所需的最大容量进行集成。

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.