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

桥梁项目正在开发一个创新的、动态的、高性能的跨大西洋网络试验台，将美国的研究社区及其资源与欧洲的合作伙伴和设施互联。它探索了先进的虚拟网络体系结构，使可快速重新配置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，从而安全地探索新概念并以一致、可预测的性能创建新的项目工作流程。桥接设施由两条地理上分离的跨越北大西洋的光链路和美国和欧洲的地面光链路组成洲际光网络环拓扑，能够在华盛顿、纽约、巴黎和阿姆斯特丹的主要节点之间传输高达200 Gbps的科学数据。Bridge设施是一个具有约束力的研究项目平台，提供了一个灵活的面向研究的基础设施，将美国的实验室和大学与欧洲的同行连接起来。高能物理、深空通信甚至生物医学项目中的科学应用程序正在与桥梁合作，利用它们在这项技术上的投资来访问数字资源，如全球分布或远程传感器和仪器、分布式数据存储、分析处理资源，以创建针对手头科学量身定做的新的全球应用程序。Bridge由乔治梅森大学和东卡罗来纳大学领导，正在与美国和欧洲的近40个网络和科学研究项目的初始社区合作并将其联系起来。该项目预计将产生深远的影响，超越试验台或互联设施，并导致网络基础设施的创新使用。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。

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.