IRNC: ENgage: Strengthening Global Cyberinfrastructure Ecosystems to Advance International Science Collaboration

IRNC：ENgage：加强全球网络基础设施生态系统以推进国际科学合作

• 批准号: 2029309
• 负责人: Steven Huter
• 金额: $ 494.01万
• 依托单位: University of Oregon Eugene
• 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: 2020-10-01 至 2025-09-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2029309&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: IRNC; ENgage; Strengthening; Global; Cyberinfrastructure

The Network Startup Resource Center (NSRC) develops network communications infrastructure and local engineering capacity in areas of the world where inadequate research and education network (REN) connectivity poses a significant barrier to international collaborations with US scientists and educators. By helping build physical network infrastructure and the human technical capacity to maintain and upgrade it, NSRC assists the US science community by fostering state-of-the-art global cyberinfrastructure (CI), ubiquitous access to global scientific communities, remote scientific instruments, and shared data resources. NSRC exemplifies the NSF's stated strategic goal of "encouraging collaborative research and education across organizations, disciplines, sectors, and international boundaries." NSRC incubates and builds sustainable CI consistent with the guiding principles of the International Research Network Connections (IRNC) program, including: technical training and direct engineering assistance to improve operational infrastructure from university campuses to national and regional RENs; engaging RENs to participate in globally interconnected testbed facilities with the IRNC initiative; disseminating information about best practices for design, development, and operation of CI resources; and amplifying numerous training programs to foster a new generation of network engineers and leaders in underserved communities, while providing experiential learning opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students. NSRC achieves this through targeted capacity building activities and partnerships with universities, RENs, Internet Service Providers, industry, government and supranational agencies in Africa, Asia-Pacific, the Middle East, Latin America-Caribbean, and North America. Substantial financial support from industry and international partners, facilitated by NSRC, leverages NSF funds to augment the impact of its work with the global R&E community.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.

网络启动资源中心（NSRC）在世界上研究和教育网络（REN）连接不足对美国科学家和教育工作者的国际合作构成重大障碍的地区开发网络通信基础设施和当地工程能力。通过帮助建立物理网络基础设施以及维护和升级这些基础设施的人力技术能力，NSRC通过培养最先进的全球网络基础设施（CI）、无处不在的全球科学社区访问、远程科学仪器和共享数据资源来帮助美国科学界。nssrc体现了NSF“鼓励跨组织、跨学科、跨部门、跨国界的合作研究和教育”的战略目标。NSRC根据国际研究网络连接（IRNC）计划的指导原则，孵化和建立可持续的CI，包括：技术培训和直接工程援助，以改善从大学校园到国家和地区ren的运营基础设施；通过IRNC倡议，让RENs参与全球互联的测试平台设施；传播有关CI资源设计、开发和运营的最佳实践的信息；扩大众多培训项目，在服务欠缺的社区培养新一代网络工程师和领导者，同时为本科生和研究生提供体验式学习机会。NSRC通过有针对性的能力建设活动以及与非洲、亚太、中东、拉丁美洲-加勒比和北美的大学、国家、互联网服务提供商、行业、政府和超国家机构的合作伙伴关系来实现这一目标。在NSRC的推动下，来自业界和国际合作伙伴的大量资金支持，利用NSF的资金扩大其在全球研发社区的工作影响。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。