Advanced CyberInfrastructure for High Performance, Data Intensive Computing

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。这个基础设施项目将翻新约翰霍普金斯大学霍姆伍德校区彭博中心的一个数据中心。数据中心空间将被翻新，以提供一个灵活、稳定、节能的环境，为支持克里格艺术与科学学院、怀廷工程学院和谢里丹图书馆的研究和研究培训所需的高密度计算设备。电力容量将增加六倍，从改造后的空间到校园网核心和互联网2的网络连接将从1gige增加到10gige。翻新后的空间将用于组装和容纳最先进的设备，这些设备将改变可执行的计算的规模和类型，直接影响来自12个部门的36名教师的研究。这将使更复杂的计算成为可能，从而促进对材料、湍流、天文学、环境科学、气候、高能物理和生物系统的理解。翻新后的数据中心将为数据密集型计算提供一个节能设施，并为整个Homewood校园内外的研究人员提供快速的网络访问，作为计算科学和工程跨学科活动的焦点。第二代互联网连接速度的十倍提升，将使中心存储的数据存储库的远程用户以及公共卫生和医学院的研究人员受益。翻新后的中心将提供所需的空间和网络带宽，以容纳数据库和广泛使用的研究项目，包括斯隆数字巡天、美国虚拟天文台、SkyQuery、Pan-STARRS和数据保护协会。训练学生有效地使用新的计算工具和算法将对国家的工业、大学和国家实验室的研究产生重要影响。翻新后的研究和培训设施将成为研究培训计划的中心，激发年轻学生对科学和工程领域可能的职业发展的兴趣，并帮助招募各种感兴趣的学生。例如，JHU IGERT复杂系统建模专业的学生将使用扩建后的数据中心和100Teraflop图形处理器实验室来实现和应用新的算法。JHU致力于扩大对科学和工程活动的参与，例如通过与妇女合作的IGERT项目。来自弱势群体的学生比例很高的美国学院和其他大学。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This infrastructure project will renovate a data center in the Bloomberg Center on the Homewood Campus of Johns Hopkins University. The data center space will be refurbished to provide a flexible, stable, energy efficient environment for the high density of computing equipment needed to support research and research training in the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Whiting School of Engineering and Sheridan Libraries. The power capacity will be increased by a factor of six and the network connections from the renovated space to the campus networking core and to Internet2 will be increased from 1 GigE to 10 GigE.The renovated space will be used to assemble and house state-of-the art equipment that will transform the scale and types of calculations that can be performed, directly affecting research by 36 faculty from a dozen departments. This will enable more sophisticated calculations that will advance understanding of materials, turbulence, astronomy, environmental science, climate, high-energy physics, and biological systems. The renovated data center will provide an energy efficient facility for data intensive computing, with rapid network access for researchers across the Homewood Campus and beyond, serving as a focal point for interdisciplinary activities in computational science and engineering. The ten-fold increase in the speed of the Internet2 connection will benefit remote users of data repositories stored in the center, as well as researchers in the Schools of Public Health and Medicine. The renovated center will provide the space and network bandwidth needed to host databases and research programs of broad use and interest, including the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, the U. S. Virtual Astronomy Observatory, SkyQuery, Pan-STARRS, and the Data Conservancy.Training students to use new computational tools and algorithms effectively will have an important impact on the nation's industries and on research in universities and in national laboratories. The renovated research and training facility will be central to research training initiatives, exciting young students about possible careers in science and engineering and aiding in recruiting a diverse pool of interested students. As an example, students in the JHU IGERT on modeling complex systems will use the expanded data center and the 100Teraflop Graphics Processor Laboratory, enabled by the renovation, to implement and apply new algorithms. JHU is committed to expanding participation in science and engineering activities, such as through the IGERT project, which is partnering with women?s colleges and other universities with a high percentage of students from underrepresented groups.