Alaska EPSCoR RII C2: Cyberconnectivity and Data Visualization

阿拉斯加研究基础设施改善校园间和校园内网络连接项目将增强阿拉斯加大学费尔班克斯（UAF）和安克雷奇（UAA）校园的网络连接，数据存储和可视化能力。在UAF，核心网络将从1 Gbps升级到10 Gbps以太网，并将在北极地区超级计算中心（ARSC）开发新的集中式数据门户和托管基础设施。 在UAA，校园网络将从1 Gbps升级到10 Gbps，天文馆和可视化剧院（PVT）的实时可视化功能将得到升级。 该项目还包括通过UAF的信息技术办公室为农村学校和社区开发网络教育内容。智力优势网络升级旨在加强连接，并为UAF和UAA的数据密集型高带宽计算提供支持。 ARSC数据门户将极大地促进数据的访问，提高研究效率，并启动跨学科，校园和阿拉斯加州以外的组织的合作。 UAA PVT的可视化能力的提高将支持生成基于代理的地图和相关的政策决定，描绘气候和社会经济变化的当前和未来情景的不同可能性。该项目将解决目前受连通性问题限制的可视化能力和多场景模拟问题。网络支持的研究将侧重于能够更好地了解人类与自然系统之间相互作用引起的北极生态系统和气候变化动态的研究。拟议的网络升级将提高可靠性，并为UAF和UAA的研究人员和学生及其外部合作者之间的通信和数据共享提供冗余。ARSC数据门户网站将不仅对大量研究人员开放，而且对所有技能水平的教学元素的普通公众开放。UAA PVT的网络基础设施升级将通过不同场景的可视化以及公共外联演示，促进公共资源管理人员做出知情的政策决定。阿拉斯加偏远的农村校园和社区也将通过远程教育项目受益。

The Alaska Research Infrastructure Improvement Inter-Campus and Intra-Campus Cyber Connectivity project will enhance cyber connectivity, data storage, and visualization capabilities at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) and Anchorage (UAA) campuses. At UAF, the core network will be upgraded from 1 Gbps to 10 Gbps Ethernet and a new, centralized data portal and managed infrastructure will be developed at the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center (ARSC). At UAA, the campus network will be upgraded from 1 Gbps to 10 Gbps and the real-time visualization capabilities will be upgraded at the Planetarium and Visualization Theater (PVT). The project also includes Development of cyber educational content for rural schools and communities through UAF's Office of Information Technology.Intellectual MeritThe cyber upgrades are aimed at strengthening connectivity and providing support for data-intensive high bandwidth computing at UAF and UAA. The ARSC data portal will greatly facilitate access to data, improve research efficiency, and initiate collaborations that transcend disciplines, campuses, and organizations across and beyond Alaska. Increased visualization capabilities at UAA's PVT will support generation of agent-based maps and related policy decisions that portray different possibilities of current and future scenarios of climatic and socio-economic changes. Visualization capabilities and multi-scenario simulations that are currently limited by connectivity problems will be addressed by this project. The cyber-enabled research will focus on studies that enable better understanding of the dynamics of changes in the arctic ecosystem and climate caused by interactions between human and natural systems. Broader ImpactsThe proposed cyber upgrades will improve reliability and provide redundancy for communication and data sharing among researchers and students at UAF and UAA and with their external collaborators. The ARSC data portal will be accessible not only to a large number of researchers but also to the general public with instructional elements for all skill levels. The cyberinfrastructure upgrades to the PVT at UAA will facilitate informed policy decisions by public resource managers through visualization of different scenarios as well as public outreach presentations. Remote rural Alaska campuses and communities will also benefit through distance education programs.