CC-NIE Integration: Innovations to Transition a Campus Core Cyberinfrastructure to Serve Diverse and Emerging Researcher Needs

近年来，科学发现的步伐很快，因为网络基础设施使研究人员能够：(A)远程访问分布式计算资源和大数据集，以及(B)在全球范围内与远程同行进行有效合作。然而，对研究人员来说，广泛采用这些进展一直是一个挑战，主要是由于传统网络基础设施设备、政策和校园工程实践的限制。该项目解决了俄亥俄州立大学(OSU)内的研究人员及其州、国家和国际层面的合作者的采用挑战。项目团队正在整合与OSU研究人员在“Science DMZ”环境中的用例相关的先进技术(例如，100Gbps连接、PerformSONAR、OpenFlow、ROCE/iWARP)。OSU的100Gbps边界路由器将被设置为连接到国家资助的OARnet-Internet2对等100Gbps网络，以支持使用案例。该项目将调查在研究人员流动性能和校园安全实践之间平衡的权衡。项目活动还包括广域网络实验，以将俄亥俄州立大学的网络基础设施和科学非军事区与(密苏里大学)远程校园的网络基础设施无缝集成。该项目将创建并记录“校园性能工程师”的角色，他将是科学非军事区设备的主要“守护者”和“服务台”，并将作为与研究人员及其合作者的联络人来配置广域网络基础设施。将出版最佳做法，并将开发开放源码软件应用程序，以处理跨越不同科学/工程学科和多个大学校园的生产网络中的研究人员应用程序流动。

The pace of scientific discovery has been rapid in recent years owing to cyberinfrastructures that enable researchers to: (a) remotely access distributed computing resources and big data sets, and (b) effectively collaborate with remote peers, at a global-scale. However, wide-adoption of these advances has been a challenge to researchers mainly due to limitations in traditional cyberinfrastructure equipment, policies and engineering practices at campuses.This project addresses the adoption challenges for researchers within The Ohio State University (OSU), and for their collaborators at the state, national and international levels. The project team is integrating advanced technologies (e.g., 100Gbps connectivity, perfSONAR, OpenFlow, RoCE/iWARP) relevant to the use cases of diverse OSU researchers in a "Science DMZ" environment. A 100Gbps border router at OSU will be setup to connect to the state-funded OARnet-Internet2 peered 100Gbps network in support of the use cases. The project will investigate the tradeoffs to be balanced between researcher flow performance and campus security practices. Project activities also involve wide-area network experimentation to seamlessly integrate OSU's cyberinfrastructure and Science DMZ with a remote campus (at University of Missouri) cyberinfrastructure. This project will create and document the role of a "Performance Engineer on campus", who will be the primary "keeper" and "help-desk" of the Science DMZ equipment, and will function as a liaison with researchers and their collaborators to configure wide-area cyberinfrastructures. Best-practices are to be published, and open-source software applications will be developed for handling researcher application flows in production networks across diverse science/engineering disciplines and multiple university campuses.