ARI: Enhancing MREN Optical Communications Infrastructure for e-Science

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。该项目将改造大都会研究和教育网络（MREN）的一部分。 它将为即将到来的下一代国家和国际研究和教育网络提供网关，并为各个研究小组提供可定制的服务，如动态可配置的电路。 翻新后的网络基础设施将支持所有主要高端网络服务的切换。 核心服务通常将直接进入光子接口，这将提供高容量，高性能的传输。主交换机还将支持异波，以便与基于光传输的其他研究网络中实现的光学器件进行互操作。该项目将为网络研究、云服务和其他形式的分布式计算实验以及大规模数据密集型研究活动提供基础设施支持。 后一种项目要么生成大量数据，汇总大量数据，要么整合来自不同来源的数据。 受影响的研究领域包括高能物理学、天文学和天体物理学、气候科学、核聚变、材料科学、蛋白质组学和代谢组学、化学、科学可视化，以及更广泛的利用国家级高性能计算和高吞吐量计算资源的研究。 通过为研究提供基础设施，该项目将有助于确保上中西部的大学能够获得先进的网络基础设施。 除了基础研究，网络资源将支持研究人员之间的跨大陆和全球距离的合作。 它们还将支持远程学习等教育活动。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The project will renovate part of the Metropolitan Research and Education Network (MREN). It will provide gateways to forthcoming, next-generation national and international research and education networks and also provide access to customizable services, such as dynamically configurable circuits, for individual research groups. The renovated network infrastructure will support switching for all major high-end network services. Core services will, in general, go directly to photonic interfaces, which will provide a high-capacity, high-performance transport. The primary switch will also support alien waves for interoperability with optics implemented within other research networks that are based on optical transport. The project will provide infrastructure support for network research, for experimentation with cloud services and other forms of distributed computing, and for large-scale, data-intensive research activities. The latter projects either generate large amounts of data, aggregate large amounts of data, or integrate data from diverse sources. Examples of research fields affected, include high-energy physics, astronomy and astrophysics, climate science, fusion, materials science, proteomics and metabolomics, chemistry, scientific visualization, and, more generally, research that makes use of national-scale high-performance computing and high-throughput computing resources. By providing infrastructure for research, the project will be to help ensure that universities in the upper Midwest have access to advanced cyberinfrastructure. In addition to basic research, the networking resources will support collaboration between researchers over continental and global distances. They will also support educational activities such as distance learning.