Enhancing Inter- and Intra-campus Cyberinfrastructure at West Virginia's Research Institutions

加强西弗吉尼亚州研究机构校区内和校区内的网络基础设施计划编号：EPS-1006576机构：西弗吉尼亚州高等教育政策委员会项目主任：保罗·L·希尔该奖项由2009年美国复苏和再投资法案(公法第111-5条)资助。该奖项名为“增强西弗吉尼亚州研究机构的校园网间和校区内网络基础设施”，该奖项描述了一个项目，该项目致力于将西弗吉尼亚州(WV)的两所研究型大学的网络基础设施(CI)提升到当前的研究标准，并使该州以本科为主的学院和大学(PUI)、社区和技术学院(CTC)以及作为一个整体参与州网络(WVNET)的K-12社区具有接入Internet2的潜力。预计这一努力将主要针对发展马歇尔大学(MU)的校际CI，以及升级西弗吉尼亚大学(WVU)的校内CI。这些活动补充了NSF、国家及其研究机构的其他投资，并与WV全州范围的CI科学和技术战略计划(2015愿景：网络基础设施)的广泛CI目标和具体目标保持一致。Vision2015一直是该州学术研究基础设施成功扩张的推动力。《2015愿景》的传播与信息构成部分鼓励部署可持续的传播与传播资源，并侧重于扩大先进的网络基础设施。其他目标包括增强高性能计算和数据存储资源、机构间协作工具，以及部署可供研究社区使用的高级应用程序和工具。智力价值随着校区内和校际连接的改善，西弗吉尼亚州的研究和教育工作将得到极大加强。连通性的改善将影响到从生物解剖学、能源学、神经科学和天体物理学到癌症治疗和基因图谱的各种学科。计划改进传播和信息技术，以促进在生物无机学和工程学、神经科学、计算流体力学和应用多物理学、多尺度能源建模、天体物理学、数据挖掘和生物信息学与生物医学数据以及许多其他科学学科方面的研究和教育。虽然这些主题来自科学和工程领域广泛不同的学科领域，但所有这些主题都有一系列共同的元素：非常大的数据集、复杂的计算系统和交互式可视化需求。拟议的CI将为所有这些调查人员提供强大的新能力，以发现产生真正变革性的环境。除了直接和明显的好处外，共享知识和共同工具还会产生更微妙的长期影响。它们将导致一个共享研究实践的社区，以意想不到的方式赋予参与者权力。这些研究领域和许多其他领域将受益于这种增强的网络能力。随着CI的这些改进，研究人员将获得新的机会来竞争目前由于WV的网络限制而无法获得的资金和资源。更广泛的影响通过增加连通性来加强信息传播，将通过一项综合计划，将可持续研究、教育和劳动力发展整合到西弗吉尼亚州的大学、公共教育机构、社区技术中心和该州公民的框架内，从而改善该州的研究基础设施和人力资源开发。为了实现学习和发现过程中的革命，新型网络资源也需要更高水平的技术能力。该项目将直接影响两个研究机构和八个PUI的学生和专业IT工作人员，以及数十名参与研究的教职员工和研究人员的研究能力。通过利用NSF和最近RII Track 2奖的州投资，西弗吉尼亚大学、密歇根州立大学和西弗吉尼亚州立大学(WVSU)的校园冠军将成为宽带技术的州冠军，这些技术将影响整个州的高等教育、K-12和经济发展。

Enhancing Inter- and Intra-campus Cyberinfrastructure at West Virginia's Research Institutions Proposal Number: EPS - 1006576 Institution: West Virginia Higher Education Policy CommissionProject Director: Paul L HillThis award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This award, "Enhancing Inter- and Intra-campus Cyberinfrastructure at West Virginia's Research Institutions," describes a project focused on advancing cyberinfrastructure (CI) to current research standards at West Virginia's (WV) two research universities, and enables Internet2 access potential for the state's predominantly undergraduate colleges and universities (PUIs), community and technical colleges (CTCs), and the K-12 community that participate on the State Network (WVNET) as a whole. This effort is expected to be primarily directed towards developing the inter-campus CI at Marshall University (MU), and upgrading the intra-campus CI at West Virginia University (WVU). The activities complement other investments by NSF, the state, and its research institutions and are aligned with the broad CI goals and specific objectives of the WV Statewide Science and Technology Strategic Plan for CI (Vision 2015: Cyberinfrastructure). Vision 2015 has been the driving force behind the successful expansion of academic research infrastructure in the state. The CI component of Vision 2015 encourages deployment of sustainable CI resources and focuses on expansion of advanced network infrastructure. Other goals include enhanced high-performance computing and data storage resources, inter-institutional collaboration tools, and deployment of advanced applications and tools that can be utilized by the research community.Intellectual MeritWith improved inter- and intra- campus connectivity, research and education endeavors will be greatly enhanced in the State of WV. The impact of improved connectivity would reach a diversity of disciplines ranging from bionanoscience, energy, neuroscience, and astrophysics to cancer therapy and gene mapping. CI improvements are planned to enable research and education in bionanoscience and engineering, neuroscience, computational fluid dynamics and applied multi-physics, multiscale modeling of energy resources, astrophysics, data mining and bioinformatics with biomedical data, and many other science disciplines. While coming from widely different disciplinary areas across science and engineering, all these topics share a series of common elements: very large data sets, complex computational systems, and interactive visualization needs. The proposed CI would provide all these investigators with powerful new capabilities for discoveries that generate a truly transformative setting. In addition to the direct and obvious benefits, there are subtler long-term impacts that result from the sharing of knowledge and common tools. They would lead to a community of shared research practice that empowers the participants in unexpected ways. These research areas and many others would benefit from this enhanced cyber capability. With these improvements to CI, researchers would be afforded new opportunities to compete for funding and resources currently out of reach because of WV's cyber-limitations. Broader ImpactsEnhanced CI through increased connectivity will improve the State's research infrastructure and human resource development through a comprehensive plan for integrating sustainable research, education and workforce development within the framework of WV's universities, PUIs, and CTCs and the State's citizenry. To realize revolutions in the processes of learning and discovery, new types of networked resources also demand a new level of technical competence. The project would have direct impact on students and the professional IT workforce at two research institutions and eight PUIs, and on the research capability for dozens of participating faculty and research students. By leveraging the NSF and state investments from the recent RII Track 2 award, campus champions of WVU, MU and West Virginia State University (WVSU) would become state champions for broadband technologies who will impact higher education, K-12 and economic development throughout the state.