Enhancement of Cyber Connectivity within the Nevada System of Higher Education

摘要提案编号：EPS-1006797提案标题：增强内华达州高等教育机构系统内的网络连通性：内华达州高等教育系统该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案资助的（公法111-5）。本EPSCoR研究基础设施改善校园间和校内的目标，校园网络连接项目旨在增强内华达州高等教育系统内的连接性，以实现更高的网络速度和容量，推动内华达州的教育和研究。提高连通性的机制是对拉斯维加斯城域光纤环路上的六个现有节点进行设备升级。智力优势能力的提高将为科学家和工程师提供网络资源，以进一步建立计算科学方面的专业知识，这是科学事业公认的主要组成部分。加强与研究型大学、社区和州立学院、实地考察站以及其他学术和公共实体的联系，将对整个内华达州的研究和教育企业产生广泛的影响。各机构将与世界各地的200多所其他Internet 2大学、政府研究实验室、公司和研究机构建立联系，促进数据密集型研究、协作开发、分布式实验、基于网格的数据分析以及使用高性能网络、社交网络和网络支持学习的实验。更广泛的影响该奖项将使内华达州能够对内华达网络进行重大改进，它为偏远地区、农村中心、小型学院和地区大学、美洲原住民部落和人民以及残疾人提供连接。增强的连通性将连接大学与K-12学校，并提供经济发展和高带宽接入可能带来的其他机会（例如，远程教育、远程保健指导和支助以及分享经济和社区发展材料）。拟议的高性能计算教育计划将为学生，博士后助理和教师提供计算工具培训，这些工具将扩大对计算思维和建模的参与和理解，特别是气候变化科学，并培养下一代具有网络素养的科学家和工程师，致力于解决气候变化和其他社会问题。

AbstractProposal Number: EPS-1006797Proposal Title: Enhancement of Cyber Connectivity within the Nevada System of Higher EducationInstitution: Nevada System of Higher EducationThis award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).The goal of this EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Improvement Inter-Campus and Intra-Campus Cyber Connectivity project is to enhance connectivity within the Nevada System of Higher Education to achieve higher network speeds and capacity to advance education and research in Nevada. The mechanism for improved connectivity is equipment upgrades for six existing nodes on the Las Vegas metro fiber loop.Intellectual MeritThe capacity improvements will provide scientists and engineers with the network resources to further build expertise in computational science, a recognized major component of the scientific enterprise. Enhanced connectivity to research universities, community and state colleges, field stations, and other academic and public entities will have broad-ranging impact on research and education enterprises throughout Nevada. Institutions will be linked to more than 200 other Internet2 universities, government research laboratories, companies, and research facilities throughout the world, facilitating data-intensive research, collaborative development, distributed experiments, grid-based data analysis, and experimentation using high performance networking, social networking, and cyber-enabled learning.Broader ImpactsThe award will enable Nevada to make major improvements to NevadaNet, which provides connectivity to remote areas, rural centers, small colleges and regional universities, Native American tribes and peoples, and persons with disabilities. The enhanced connectivity will connect universities with K-12 schools as well as provide for economic development and other opportunities that can result from high-bandwidth access (e.g., distance education, tele-health instruction and support, and sharing of economic and community development materials). The proposed educational programs in high performance computing will provide students, postdoctoral associates, and faculty training in computational tools that will broaden participation in, and understanding of, computational thinking and modeling in general, and climate change science in particular, and foster the next generation of cyber-literate scientists and engineers working to solve climate change and other societal problems.