CC* NPEO: Toward the National Research Platform

学术研究人员需要一个简单的数据共享架构，端到端的10Gbps到100Gbps的性能，以实现大量数据与计算的虚拟协同放置。端到端通常是一个难以解决的问题，因为端到端之间的网络(园区、数据存储库等)通常遍历多个网络管理域：园区、地区和国家。没有一个组织有责任为科学家提供高带宽的磁盘到磁盘性能。面向国家研究平台(TNRP)，解决了扩展端到端数据共享的关键问题。TNRP将建立一个由不同种类的“国家-地区-国家”网络(NRSN)组成的大型联盟，以极大地提高全国范围内的端到端网络性能。要实现在全国范围内提高端到端网络性能的目标，需要这些分散的中级实体积极参与，才能接触到他们的园区。他们是其成员机构值得信赖的召集人，有效地促进了“人与人之间的联系”，这对于开发一个完整的国家研究平台是必要的，对技术的稳定性、部署和性能也是如此。TNRP的协作NRSNs结构导致参与的NRSNs和开放科学网格确定的大量科学应用程序的参与。TNRP被高度利用来直接衡量绩效。通过被动和主动网络监控实现的磁盘到磁盘性能可视化显示了NSRN内部和内部的端到端性能。对区域网络互连至关重要的Internet2将提供一个仪表化的专用虚拟网络实例，用于技术方案的NRSN的互连。网络安全是一个持续关注的问题；对先进的集装箱化协调、硬件加密引擎和新颖的IPv6策略的评估是TNRP计划的一部分。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Academic researchers need a simple data sharing architecture with end-to-end 10-to-100Gbps performance to enable virtual co-location of large amounts of data with computing. End-to-end is a difficult problem to solve in general because the networks between ends (campuses, data repositories, etc.) typically traverse multiple network management domains: campus, regional, and national. No one organization owns the responsibility for providing scientists with high-bandwidth disk-to-disk performance. Toward the National Research Platform (TNRP), addresses issues critical to scaling end-to-end data sharing. TNRP will instrument a large federation of heterogeneous "national-regional-state" networks (NRSNs) to greatly improve end-to-end network performance across the nation. The goal of improving end-to-end network performance across the nation requires active participation of these distributed intermediate-level entities to reach out to their campuses. They are trusted conveners of their member institutions, contributing effectively to the "people networking" that is as necessary to the development of a full National Research Platform as is the stability, deployment, and performance of technology. TNRP's collaborating NRSNs structure leads to engagement of a large set of science applications, identified by the participating NRSNs and the Open Science Grid. TNRP is highly instrumented to directly measure performance. Visualizations of disk-to-disk performance with passive and active network monitoring show intra- and inter-NSRN end-to-end performance. Internet2, critical for interconnecting regional networks, will provide an instrumented dedicated virtual network instance for the interconnection of TNRP's NRSNs. Cybersecurity is a continuing concern; evaluations of advanced containerized orchestration, hardware crypto engines, and novel IPv6 strategies are part of the TNRP plan.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.