Nebraska 2010-12 RII Track C2

内布拉斯加州2010-12年度RII Track C2提案编号：EPS-1006988机构：内布拉斯加大学项目主任：F.Fred Choobineh该奖项由2009年美国复苏和再投资法案(公法111-5)资助。内布拉斯加州计划投资于全州范围内高速数据和视频传输的网络骨干网的基础，该骨干网将通过扩展内布拉斯加州大学区域光纤网络(Nuron)来创建，Nuron是林肯和奥马哈之间的光纤环，通过堪萨斯城连接到Internet 2。项目？S牵头的机构是：内布拉斯加州大学(NU)中央管理处、内布拉斯加州大学林肯分校(UNL)和内布拉斯加大学奥马哈分校(UNO)。位于内布拉斯加州29个社区的机构将参与该项目。Nuron的扩建计划分三个阶段完成；然而，该项目的目标是投资于建设网络所需的三个阶段中的第一阶段。在第一阶段，全州21所高等教育机构(29个地点)将连接起来，范围从社区学院到研究型大学。Nuron将有七个主要站点(集线器)，通过光纤环路连接，作为辅助站点的接入点。辅助站点将以星形配置连接到集线器。这些集线器将被用来连接内布拉斯加州教育网络，该网络已经开始提供区域统一的技术，用于远程交付教育内容，包括正规的K-12课程，以及内布拉斯加州州远程医疗网络，该网络目前连接着83家州医疗保健机构。NURON的智能价值扩展和增强预计将为内布拉斯加州提供网络基础设施(CI)资源，将该州的S教育和远程医疗网络连接到高等教育？从而为该州公民提供新的教育、医疗和研究机会？并将这些网络连接到国家网络，从而访问州、国家和世界各地的超级计算和其他资源。该项目将通过形成具有所需临界质量的研究集群，促进多学科的州内和国家间的合作研究，以及b)创建与NURON集线器相连的分布式传感器网络，用于收集实时环境和气候数据，以进行环境和气候研究。该NE RII C2项目促成的研究和教育努力的例子包括：(A)瑞士CERN的紧凑型Muon螺线管实验--五名UNL物理学教员正在参加欧洲核研究组织(CERN)大型强子对撞机的这一大型国际项目。(B)地球科学和气候模拟--联合国系统的研究人员正试图利用大平原作为研究区域气候影响的试验台。他们将模拟陆地表面的水、碳和能量通量，影响从当地天气到全球温室效应的各种尺度的大气过程。(C)生物信息学-内布拉斯加州的研究人员产生了大量的分子基因组和蛋白质组数据。RII C2提案的投资将在目前拨款的基础上进一步增强内布拉斯加州S现役(RII2007-2010)研究人员的分析能力，并进一步帮助参与RII提案(RII2010-2015)的藻类研究人员。(D)计算纳米科学-五名UNL和两名UNO教员一直在计算纳米材料领域合作工作。他们显著发现的例子包括发现一种新形式的水，预测和理解电子在超薄铁电材料中的隧穿，发现第一个金属纳米团簇-中空金纳米笼，以及许多其他发现。这一领域是内布拉斯加州-波多黎各RII Track-2提案的重点。广泛影响创建一个州网络主干将消除作为共享和合作障碍的距离，并将a)促进在线课程的扩展和可访问性，并推动在州立学院和大学之间建立正式政策，接受非始发机构的在线学分；b)提供全州范围的可靠网络，以更快的速度和带宽向贫困学生提供K-12课程内容，进而为农村学生提供与城市学生公平的竞争环境；c)允许在整个内布拉斯加州共享医疗专业知识；D)允许建立可靠的监测网络以加强安全；以及e)连接分散在全州的内布拉斯加大学研究和推广地点。

Nebraska 2010-12 RII Track C2 Proposal Number: EPS-1006988Institution: University of NebraskaProject Director: F. Fred Choobineh This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Nebraska plans to invest in the foundation for a statewide cyber backbone for high speed data and video transfer that will be created by expansion of the Nebraska University Regional Optical Network (NURON), a fiber ring between Lincoln and Omaha with connectivity to Internet 2 through Kansas City. The project?s lead institutions are: the University of Nebraska (NU) Central Administration, University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), and University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO). Institutions located in 29 Nebraska communities will participate in the project.Expansion of NURON is planned to be completed in three phases; however, the goal of this project is to invest in the first phase of the three phases required to build the network. In phase 1, 21 institutions (29 sites) of higher learning across the state, ranging from community colleges to research universities, would be connected. NURON will have seven primary sites (hubs), connected by fiber loops, that would serve as access points for secondary sites. Secondary sites would be connected to the hubs in star configuration. These hubs would be used to connect to Network Nebraska-Education which already has begun providing regionally unified technology for distance delivery of educational content including formal K-12 courses and to the Nebraska State Telehealth Network which currently links 83 state healthcare providers.Intellectual MeritExpansion and enhancement of NURON is expected to provide Nebraska with cyber-infrastructure (CI) resources to connect the state?s Education and Telehealth Networks to higher education?thus providing new education, healthcare, and research opportunities to citizens of the state?and to connect these networks to national cyber networks providing access to supercomputing computing and other resources around the state, country and the world. This project would facilitate a) collaborative intra- and inter-state research in multiple disciplines by forming research clusters with the required critical mass and b) the creation of distributed sensor networks tied to NURON hubs for collection of real time environmental and climate data to conduct environmental and climate research.Examples of research and education efforts enabled by this NE RII C2 project include: (a) The Compact Muon Solenoid experiment at CERN in Switzerland - Five UNL Physics faculty members are participating in this large scale international project at the Large Hadron Collider at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). (b) Geosciences and climate modeling - UNL researchers are trying to use the Great Plains as a testbed for studying regional climate impacts. They will simulate land surface fluxes of water, carbon, and energy impact atmospheric processes at scales ranging from local weather to global greenhouse effects.(c) Bioinformatics - Nebraska researchers generate an enormous amount of molecular genomic and proteomic data. The investments of the RII C2 proposal would further enhance the analysis capability of Nebraska?s current (RII 2007-2010) researchers beyond the current grant, and further assist algal researchers who are a part of the RII proposal (RII 2010-2015).(d) Computational Nanoscience - Five UNL and two UNO faculty members collaboratively have been working in the area of computational nanomaterials. Examples of their notable discoveries include the discovery of a new form of water, prediction and understanding of electron tunneling through ultra-thin ferroelectrics, discovery of the first metallic nanocluster - hollow gold nanocages, and many others. This area is the focus of the Nebraska - Puerto Rico RII Track-2 proposal.Broader ImpactsThe creation of a state cyber backbone will remove distance as a barrier to sharing and collaboration and would a) facilitate expansion and accessibility of online courses and provide an impetus for establishing formal policies among state colleges and universities for acceptance of online credits hours by non-originating institutions; b) provide a statewide reliable network with higher speed and bandwidth to deliver K-12 course content to disadvantaged students and, in turn, level the playing field for the rural students with respect to their metropolitan counterparts; c) permit sharing of medical expertise across Nebraska; d) permit creation of a reliable monitoring network for security enhancement; and e) connect University of Nebraska research and extension sites dispersed throughout the state.