HMSC Cyberinfrastructure upgrade

海洋栖息地、近岸生态系统和沿海社区面临着威胁其可持续性的巨大压力。随着海洋研究人员现在生成和分析大量数据集，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。俄勒冈州立大学哈特菲尔德海洋科学中心（HMSC - http://hmsc.oregonstate.edu）拥有50年的海洋合作研究经验，致力于解决这些关键问题。该中心拥有创新的理念，但设备陈旧，无法满足当前和未来的大数据需求。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。培养下一代领导者，使他们能够利用这些数据密集型工具，在设计多管齐下的21世纪解决方案时，架起社会科学和自然科学的桥梁，这对我们国家的可持续未来至关重要。作为一所土地/海洋资助大学，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面向青年、家庭和成年人的公共教育和推广方面表现出色。游客中心每年接待15万名游客和4万名来自K-12班的学生，并通过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）等广泛的合作伙伴关系，具有独特的优势，可以快速向游客和利益相关者传达研究成果。该项目将取代为前以太网时代建造的老化和小型光纤基础设施，采用旨在使带宽立即增加20倍的光纤安装。但也允许未来几乎无限的扩展。这种新的网络基础设施将能够通过可扩展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建筑之间建立管道网络，以取代老化的直接埋地光纤基础设施。这将通过现代化的骨干拱顶和导管设计来完成，以允许未来的改进，而无需进行重大的再投资。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，现代交换设备将实现这种新型光纤的全部潜力，使HMSC建筑中的单个端口提供和聚合高速连接成为可能。此外，该设备将支持MPLS，并将HMSC完全集成到基于MPLS的OSU？俄勒冈州立大学通过NSF CC-NIE拨款建立了新的核心网络，包括研究网络。这些改进将能够充分利用俄勒冈州立大学资助的暗光纤网络路径，该路径计划在HMSC和50英里外的俄勒冈州立大学主校区之间，这将允许HMSC的需求几乎无限的带宽增长。它们还将使HMSC与OSU？包括通过美国国家科学基金会CC-NIE（校园网络基础设施-网络基础设施和工程）拨款建立的40gb /s研究网络。该项目将成为HMSC现代网络基础设施的最后一部分，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行和集成。

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.