CC* Regional: Advancing Maryland Research and Education Network for Under-Resourced Institutions Through a Science DMZ and 10Gbps Upgrade

CC* 区域：通过科学 DMZ 和 10Gbps 升级为资源不足的机构推进马里兰州研究和教育网络

• 批准号: 2018823
• 负责人: Damian Doyle
• 金额: $ 79.98万
• 依托单位: University System of Maryland
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-07-01 至 2023-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2018823&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CC; Regional; Advancing; Maryland; Research

MDREN, the Maryland Research and Education Network, an organization under the University System of Maryland, provides advanced network services to 40+ education, research, and public service institutions throughout the State of Maryland and connections to regional and national resources.High-speed networking infrastructure is vital to researchers and STEM educators in our community. Smaller/under resourced/rural institutions like Frostburg State University (FSU), Salisbury University (SU), the four research labs that are part of University of Maryland Center for Environmental Sciences (UMCES), the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center (MPRC) as part of University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM), and HBCUs like University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES) and Morgan State University have serious limitations in accessing and transferring huge datasets amongst themselves and collaborators at NOAA, NASA, NIH, USGS, and others. This proposal significantly increases network bandwidth for 6 institutions including research centers and labs by 10x and adds a Science DMZ for data transfers from other sites to enable the full potential of these institutions. These upgrades allow researchers at each institution to reliably connect to supercomputers and big data repositories, increase computational capabilities, and increase inter-institution collaboration. MDREN will a special path from the science DMZ machine to each lab that will facilitate high speed transfer. This would be significantly faster than doing transfers through campus firewalls.This proposal helps rural or under-resourced institutions and HBCUs better collaborate with peer institutions in the greater Maryland region, collaborators around the world, and key science organizations such as NASA, NIH, and NOAA.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.

马里兰州研究和教育网络MDREN是马里兰大学系统下的一个组织，为马里兰州40多家教育、研究和公共服务机构提供先进的网络服务，并连接到地区和国家资源。高速网络基础设施对我们社区的研究人员和STEM教育工作者至关重要。规模较小/资源不足/农村机构，如弗罗斯特堡州立大学(FSU)、索尔兹伯里大学(SU)、属于马里兰大学环境科学中心(UMCES)的四个研究实验室、隶属于马里兰大学医学院(UMSOM)的马里兰精神病学研究中心(MPRC)，以及像马里兰东岸大学(UMES)和摩根州立大学这样的HBCU，在访问和传输巨大的数据集方面存在严重的限制，它们自己以及NOAA、NASA、NIH、USGS和其他机构的合作者。这项提议将包括研究中心和实验室在内的6个机构的网络带宽显著增加10倍，并增加了一个科学DMZ，用于从其他站点传输数据，以充分发挥这些机构的潜力。这些升级使每个机构的研究人员能够可靠地连接到超级计算机和大数据存储库，提高计算能力，并加强机构间合作。MDREN将提供一条从科学DMZ机器到每个实验室的特殊路径，以促进高速传输。这将比通过校园防火墙进行转移要快得多。这项提议帮助农村或资源不足的机构和HBCU更好地与大马里兰州地区的同行机构、世界各地的合作者以及NASA、NIH和NOAA等关键科学组织合作。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。