The Bi-State Optical Network (BiSON) Upgrade

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。该项目将翻新双州光网络（BiSON），这是一个由光纤链路组成的高速光网络，服务于科罗拉多州和怀俄明州的研究和教育机构的合作。BiSON将这些机构连接在一起，并提供与国家网络（如Internet2、national LambdaRail和TeraGrid）的运输连接。使用野牛网络服务的参与者包括科罗拉多州立大学、国家海洋和大气管理局博尔德分校、科罗拉多大学博尔德分校、大学大气研究公司和怀俄明大学。该项目将把BiSON从单个2Gbps环升级为能够支持多个lambda的密集波分复用解决方案。这将使研究人员能够在野牛内部和国家广域网上有效地传输大量数据。这将有助于访问与BiSON相关的机构的研究人员使用的高端计算和数据资源，例如能源部实验室、TeraGrid和NASA，以及未来的NCAR-Wyoming超级计算中心。该升级还将为科学家提供灵活性，以获得用于特定研究应用的专用带宽。将受益于区域网络改造的研究项目包括：气候和大气研究，特别侧重于云在气候变化中的作用，利用高分辨率全球大气模拟；大型强子对撞机紧凑型介子螺线管高能物理研究地球科学，如极端天气、边界层模拟、云物理、全球海洋模拟、沿海海洋学、咸水湍流、太阳黑子和太阳通量爆发、太阳-地球相互作用、计算科学、计算机科学、数据同化和湍流；风能资源研究。除了为研究提供基础设施外，改造后的网络还将成为促进远程教育和协作的资源。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This project will renovate the Bi-State Optical Network (BiSON), a high-speed optical network comprised of fiber optic links that serves a collaboration of research and educational institutions in Colorado and Wyoming. BiSON links these institutions together and provides transport links to national networks such as Internet2, National LambdaRail and TeraGrid. Participants using the BiSON Network Services include Colorado State University, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration-Boulder, the University of Colorado-Boulder, the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, and the University of Wyoming. The project will upgrade BiSON from a single 2Gbps ring to a dense wave-division multiplexing solution capable of supporting multiple lambdas. This will enable researchers to transport efficiently enormous amounts of data intra-BiSON and over the national wide-area network. This will facilitate access to high-end computational and data resources used by researchers at the institutions connected to BiSON, such as those at Department of Energy labs, TeraGrid, and NASA, as well as at the future NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center. The upgrade will also provide scientists the flexibility to obtain dedicated bandwidth for specific research applications.Examples of research projects that will benefit from the regional networking renovation include: climate and atmospheric research with a particular focus on the role of clouds in climate change using very high-resolution global atmospheric modeling; high-energy physics research using the Compact Muon Solenoid at the Large Hadron Collider; Earth science such as extreme weather, boundary layer modeling, cloud physics, global ocean simulation, coastal oceanography, salt water turbulence, sunspots and solar flux eruptions, Sun-Earth interactions, computational science, computer science, data assimilation, and turbulence; research on wind energy resources. In addition to providing infrastructure for research, the renovated network will be a resource that facilitates distance education and collaboration.