Collaborative Research: IRNC: Testbed: BRIDGES - Binding Research Infrastructures for the Deployment of Global Experimental Science

BRIDGES项目正在开发一个创新的、动态的、高性能的跨大西洋网络测试平台，将美国的研究社区及其资源与欧洲的合作伙伴和设施连接起来。它探索先进的虚拟化网络架构，使快速可重构的全球网络基础设施能够满足合作者不断变化的研究需求，以探索新概念，并以一致的、可预测的性能安全地创建新的项目工作流程。BRIDGES设施由跨越北大西洋的两条地理上独立的光链路和美国和欧洲的陆地光链路组成，形成一个洲际光网络环形拓扑结构，能够在华盛顿、纽约、巴黎和阿姆斯特丹的主要节点之间承载高达200gbps的科学数据。BRIDGES设施是一个具有约束力的研究项目平台，提供了一个灵活的研究型基础设施，将美国的实验室和大学与欧洲的同行联系起来。高能物理、深空通信、甚至生物医学项目的科学应用都在与BRIDGES合作，利用他们在这项技术上的投资来获取数字资源，如全球分布式或远程传感器和仪器、分布式数据存储、分析处理资源，以创建适合手头科学的新的全球应用。BRIDGES由乔治梅森大学和东卡罗莱纳大学领导，正在与美国和欧洲的近40个网络和科学研究项目组成的初始社区合作并建立联系。预计该项目将对测试平台或互连设施产生深远影响，并导致网络基础设施的创新使用。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The BRIDGES project is developing an innovative, dynamic, high-performance trans-Atlantic network testbed that interconnects research communities and their resources in the US with collaborating partners and facilities in Europe. It explores advanced virtualized network architectures enabling rapidly reconfigurable global cyber-infrastructure to address changing research requirements of the collaborators to explore new concepts and to create new project workflows securely and with consistent, predictable performance.The BRIDGES facility consists of two geographically separate optical links spanning the North Atlantic and terrestrial optical links in US and Europe to form an intercontinental optical network ring topology, capable of carrying up to 200 Gbps of science data between major nodes in Washington, New York, Paris, and Amsterdam. The BRIDGES facility is a binding platform for research projects, providing a flexible research-oriented infrastructure connecting laboratories and universities in the US to their counterparts in Europe. Science applications in high energy physics, deep space communications, and even biomedical programs are collaborating with BRIDGES to leverage them investment in this technology to reach digital resources such as globally distributed or remote sensors and instruments, distributed data storage, analytical processing resources, to create new global applications tailored to the science at hand. BRIDGES is led by George Mason University and East Carolina University and is working with and connecting an initial community of nearly 40 networking and science research projects across the US and Europe. The project is expected to have a far-reaching impact beyond the testbed or interconnect facility and lead to innovative use of cyber-infrastructures.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.