CC* Networking Infrastructure: The Roadrunner High-Performance Science, Engineering, and Business DMZ

在网络安全、生物信息学、云计算、机器学习、人工智能、实时计算和其他相关领域的世界级研究需要高效且往往近乎即时地访问大型数据集，以减少从理论到发现的时间。此外，发现往往是跨学科和多机构的。因此，要实现有影响力的协作研究，一个关键的支持功能是在整个园区内无处不在的专用高速网络。德克萨斯大学圣安东尼奥分校(UTSA)是一家西班牙裔服务机构，正在实施一个专门的研究网络(DMZ)，以促进数据密集型计算和研究合作努力。这一基础设施填补了目前存在于从研究实验室到非军事区的最后一英里瓶颈中的空白。特别是，该项目要求在整个校园内安装10 Gb/S交换机，与专用研究网络相配合，提供5-10倍的数据传输速度。这些改进促进了UTSA教职员工和学生访问校园的高性能计算设施、高速数据存储和可视化实验室以及德克萨斯州奥斯汀的德克萨斯高级计算中心(TACC)。新网络还加强了体验式学习活动，如UTSA的年度网络爱国者竞赛、云和高性能计算的本科生研究项目、本科生的云计算eLab培训，以及云计算硕士水平认证等认证计划。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。

World-class research in cyber security, bioinformatics, cloud computing, machine learning, artificial intelligence, real-time computing and other related areas requires efficient and often near-immediate access to large data sets in order to reduce the time from theory to discovery. In addition, discoveries are often interdisciplinary and multi-institutional. As a result, a critical enabling feature for impactful, collaborative research is a dedicated high-speed network that is omnipresent across a campus. The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), a Hispanic Serving Institution, is implementing a dedicated research network (DMZ) to facilitate data-intensive computation and research collaboration endeavors. This infrastructure fills a gap that currently exists in the "last mile" bottleneck from a research lab to the DMZ. In particular, the project calls for installation of 10 Gb/s switches across campus that, in concert with the dedicated research network, provide 5-10X faster data transfer rates. These improvements foster access by UTSA faculty and students to the campus' high-performance computing facility, high-speed data storage, and visualization laboratory as well as the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) in Austin, Texas. The new network also enhances experiential learning activities such as UTSA's annual CyberPatriot competition, undergraduate research projects in cloud and high-performance computing, cloud computing ELab training for undergraduates, as well as certification programs such as the Master's level certification in cloud computing.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.