Renovation of South Dakota State University's Data Center

该提案将使用2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）提供的资金进行奖励。南达科他州州立大学（SDSU）研究组合的增长对SDSU的网络基础设施提出了很高的要求。 该项目将改造校园数据中心。 这项工作将涉及以下方面：（1）更新电力和冷却系统;（2）重新配置实际空间;以及（3）升级局域网（LAN）核心分配基础设施。将受益于这一改造的研究课题包括全球火灾监测、全球森林砍伐绘图、美国作物绘图、北方大平原的疾病预警系统（西尼罗河病毒）和埃塞俄比亚高地（流行性疟疾），干扰对亚马逊生物多样性的影响，模拟物候变化对区域天气的影响，疾病检测，利用气候模式和疾病趋势进行预防和预测、气候对鸟类迁徙模式的影响、全球变暖、气候模式及其对农业的影响、农业气象学和产量评估研究、干旱监测、风资源评估研究和光合作用。SDSU的科学家和学生研究人员将有机会在当地使用世界一流的研究设施，这有助于确保该州更稳定的经济基础。该项目将允许SDSU科学家与新兴的研究园区SDSU创新园区合作，该园区是当地社区、州和大学之间的共同努力，旨在促进私营企业和大学科学家之间的研究伙伴关系。 此外，SDSU研究人员的研究能力将通过实时整合完整的数据集与国家气象局的气候产品来提高。结果将是更准确的产品，描述冰雹，风和雨事件的程度，以便当地方政府和农民/牧场主评估灾害或牲畜/作物损失时，他们将获得尽可能好的信息。

This proposal will be awarded using funds made available by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).The growth of South Dakota State University's (SDSU's) research portfolio places high demands on SDSU's cyberinfrastructure. This project will renovate the campus data center. The work will involve the following: (1) upgrading the electrical power and cooling systems; (2) reconfiguring the physical space; and (3) upgrading the local area network (LAN) core distribution infrastructure.The research topics that would benefit from this renovation include global fire monitoring, global deforestation mapping, US crop mapping, disease early warning systems in the Northern Great Plains (West Nile virus) and the Ethiopian Highlands (epidemic malaria), disturbance effects on biodiversity in Amazonia, modeling the effects of changing phenologies on regional weather, disease detection, prevention and prediction using climate models and disease trends, climate impacts on bird migratory patterns, global warming, climate pattern and its impact on agriculture, agricultural meteorology and yield assessment research, drought monitoring, wind resource assessment research, and photovoltaics. SDSU scientists and student researchers will have local access to a world-class research facility that helps ensure a more stable economic base for the state. The project will allow SDSU scientists to partner with the fledgling research park, the SDSU Innovation Campus, which is a joint effort between the local community, the state, and the University which is intended to foster research partnerships between private industry and University scientists. In addition, the research capability of the SDSU researchers will be enhanced by real-time integration of full data sets with the National Weather Services' climate products. An outcome will be more accurate products depicting the extent of hail, wind and rain events so that when local governments and farmers /ranchers assess disaster or livestock/crop damage they will have the best information possible.