Upgrade to UPR-RPC SCORE Network S06GM0812-30

描述(由申请人提供)：自然科学学院UPR-Rio Piedras校区的SCORE方案目前有11名教职调查人员、5名研究助理和11名实验室技术人员参与了化学系和生物系的11个研究项目。在最近提交的两份补充申请中，还有九个项目正在等待资助。这些项目大多使用学院的计算机网络来运行设备、检索实验数据、与数据库通信、生成图像以及通过因特网与合作者和同事进行交流。这个网络是在过去十年的前五年中安装的，它连接了组成学院整个校园设施的四栋建筑。这项技术的新发展使得有必要对这些设施进行升级，以支持新的应用程序(即多媒体)，并提高通信的速度和分辨率(即台式交换机10/100 Mbps)。为此，学院设计了一项总体项目计划，涉及替换大多数现役设备(即服务器、路由器、交换机等)。以及布线基础设施的升级。购买必要现役设备的资金可从院长办公室和国家科学基金会的基础设施赠款中获得。本申请要求提供安装和认证4号楼(自然科学二期)所需的经费，这是最新建成的设施(1992年落成)，但不包括在1994年至1997年期间在其他三栋楼进行的前一次接线项目中。申请还包括通信专家的工资，以设置、配置和服务要安装的设备和连接。该项目可获得全面的机构支持，这将大大增强网络能力，并为我们的生物医学研究人员提供访问和使用第二代互联网通信的新机会。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The SCORE Program at UPR-Rio Piedras Campus, College of Natural Sciences currently involves eleven faculty investigators, five research associates and eleven laboratory technicians in eleven research projects in the Departments of Chemistry and Biology. Nine more projects are pending funding in two supplemental applications submitted recently. Most of these projects use the College's Computer Network to run equipments, retrieve experimental data, communicate with databases and generate images as well as for communication with collaborators and colleagues through the Internet. This network, which connects the four buildings that comprise the College's facilities across Campus, was installed during the first half of the last decade. New developments in this technology make it necessary to upgrade these facilities in order to support new applications (i.e. multimedia) and enhance speed and resolution of communications (i.e. desktop-switched 10/100 Mbps). For this the College has designed a Master Project Plan involving the substitution of most of the active equipment (i.e. servers, routers, switches, etc.) and the upgrade of wiring infrastructure. Funds for the purchase of the necessary active equipment are available from the Dean's office and an NSF infrastructure grant. The present application requests the supplies funds necessary for wiring installation and certification of Building 4 (Phase II, Natural Sciences) which is the most recently built facility (inaugurated in 1992) but which was not included in the previous wiring project carried on in the other three buildings from 1994 to 1997. Application also includes the salary of a Communications Specialist to set up, configure and service equipment and connections to be installed. Full institutional support is available for this project which will result in substantial enhancement of network capabilities and new opportunities for our biomedical investigators to access and use Internet II communications.