IRNC Core Improvement: Accelerating Scientific Discovery & Increasing Access - Enhancing & Extending the Pacific Wave Exchange Fabric

Pacific Wave（PacWave）是一个以研究和教育（R E）为重点的分布式开放式Internet Exchange。它为美国科学和工程研究与教育机构及其国际合作伙伴提供了非常高性能的互联网连接，是高性能访问国际支持的仪器和大规模数据源和存储库的关键基础设施。PacWave支持大规模科学工作流程，以加速科学和工程所有领域的发现，包括高能物理学、地球科学、天文学和天体物理学、生物学和生物医学工程，以及可扩展的可视化、虚拟现实、机器学习和人工智能。它位于美国西海岸的战略位置，促进了跨太平洋海底电缆与美国国家和区域研究网络的连接，如Internet2，ESnet等。与Internet2和其他美国R E交易所合作&（StarLight，Atlantic Wave，MANLAN，and WIX），美国科学和工程界也与欧洲，中南美洲，非洲和更远的地方相连，从而支持一个真正的全球高性能研究平台。PacWave的运营，扩展和技术在洛杉矶，桑尼维尔和西雅图的主要存在点将在未来5年内得到加强，先进的测量，监测和分析工具。从被动和主动测量中收集的性能数据将有助于表征网络流量，监控事件病理学并提供警报消息和可视化。PacWave的增强功能旨在满足更高数据速率（400 Gbps、800 Gbps及更高）的需求，使探索和采用新兴技术以提高性能、安全性、测量和监控成为可能。该奖项反映了NSF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。

Pacific Wave (PacWave) is a distributed, Research and Education (R&E)-focused, open Internet Exchange. It provides for very high-performance Internet connectivity among US Science and Engineering R&E institutions and their international partners and is critical infrastructure for high-performance access to internationally supported instruments and large-scale data sources and repositories. PacWave enables large-scale scientific workflows to accelerate discovery in all areas of science and engineering, including high-energy physics, earth sciences, astronomy and astrophysics, biology and biomedical engineering, as well as scalable visualization, virtual reality, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. Its strategic location on the US West Coast facilitates connection of Trans-Pacific undersea cables to US National and Regional Research Networks, such as Internet2, ESnet, and others. In collaboration with Internet2 and other US-based R&E Exchanges (StarLight, Atlantic Wave, MANLAN, and WIX), the US Science and Engineering community is also connected to Europe, Central and South America, Africa, and beyond, thereby supporting a truly global high-performance research platform.The operation, expansion, and technology of PacWave with primary points of presence in Los Angeles, Sunnyvale, and Seattle will be enhanced over the next 5 years, with advanced measurement, monitoring, and analytic tools. Performance data gathered from passive and active measurements will help characterize network traffic, monitor incident pathology and provide alerting messages and visualizations. PacWave’s enhancements aim to meet demands for higher data rates (400 Gbps, 800 Gbps, and beyond), making possible exploration and adoption of newly emerging technologies for improved performance, security, measurement, and monitoring.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.