CC* Network Infrastructure: Enabling Research with Mines' Underground Research Facility

CC* 网络基础设施：利用矿山地下研究设施进行研究

• 批准号: 1925747
• 负责人: Matthew Ketterling
• 金额: $ 48.06万
• 依托单位: Colorado School of Mines
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-08-01 至 2024-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1925747&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CC; Network; Infrastructure; Enabling; Research

This award provides funds to install extensive cyberinfrastructure and expand Wide-Area Network (WAN) speeds to the Colorado School of Mines' Edgar Underground Educational and Research Facility. Such cyberinfrastructure upgrades further establish the Edgar Underground Educational and Research Facility as the premier facility for innovative research in underground environments. Furthermore, this facility provides an environment for students, educators, researchers, and external partners to collaborate across a wide variety of scientific and engineering disciplines. As a result of the project, researchers can better leverage campus, public, and private resources efficiently and expand research opportunities in areas such as underground communications and networking; sub-surface studies of microbial genetics and environmental DNA; remote monitoring of geologic features, seismic, electric or magnetic anomalies; and remote and autonomous control of terrestrial and aerial robots.The Colorado School of Mines' Edgar Underground Educational and Research Facility is located 25 miles west of main campus in Idaho Springs, CO. Due to the challenges of the surrounding terrain and remote location of the Edgar Facility, commodity ISP provides only one bonded pair of DSL lines, for a maximum download speed of 20Mbsec. One goal of this project to establish a 10Gb network connection to the Edgar Facility using a combination of leased fiber from the FrontRange GigaPOP and 10Gb P2P wireless communication to connect the final half-mile that spans rugged terrain. A second goal is to create robust cyberinfrastructure within the Edgar Facility, allowing connections to instrumentation and providing redundant network pathways within the mine.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.

该奖项提供资金，为科罗拉多矿业学院的埃德加地下教育和研究设施安装广泛的网络基础设施，并扩大广域网络(WAN)的速度。这种网络基础设施的升级进一步将埃德加地下教育和研究设施确立为地下环境创新研究的首要设施。此外，该设施还为学生、教育工作者、研究人员和外部合作伙伴提供了一个跨各种科学和工程学科进行协作的环境。作为该项目的结果，研究人员可以更有效地利用校园、公共和私人资源，并在以下领域扩大研究机会：地下通信和网络；地下微生物遗传学和环境DNA研究；地质特征、地震、电力或磁力异常的远程监测；以及对陆地和空中机器人的远程自主控制。科罗拉多矿业学院的埃德加地下教育和研究设施位于科罗拉多州爱达荷州斯普林斯市主校区以西25英里处。由于EDGAR设施周围地形和偏远位置的挑战，商用互联网服务提供商只提供一对绑定的DSL线路，最高下载速度为20Mbsec。该项目的一个目标是使用FrontRange GigaPOP租用光纤和10 Gb P2P无线通信相结合的方式，建立到Edgar设施的10 Gb网络连接，以连接跨越崎岖地形的最后半英里。第二个目标是在埃德加设施内创建强大的网络基础设施，允许连接到仪器设备并在矿井内提供冗余网络路径。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。