CC-NIE Network Infrastructure: FlowSurge: Supporting Science Data Flows Towards Discovery, Innovation and Education

FlowSurge项目利用FIU园区网络、AMPATH国际交换点、区域、国家和国际多组织的软件定义网络(SDN)的网络基础设施(CI)资源，以加强对研究人员实验室的端到端科学流动的支持。FlowSurge的主要研究贡献是在FIU建立科学网络和科学DMZ，为支持高性能科学应用和数据密集型流动而量身定做。FlowSurge的安装方法针对科学流的高性能和可编程性进行了优化，并在研究人员的实验室中用于监测和测量科学流，从而实现了这一目标。FlowSurge的动机是研究人员的要求：(1)生成指向校园、其他校园或区域、国家或国际站点的共享CI或CI连接资源的科学流；以及(2)通过使用FlowSurge为优化的高性能科学应用和数据密集型流定制端到端路径，来协调和参与“规模”实验。FlowSurge使FIU的IT和网络员工能够对园区网络基础设施进行分区，以支持Science Flow，而不会对园区内的通用Flow造成影响。FlowSurge的影响是一个为FIU(美国大陆最大的拉美裔少数族裔服务机构)的研究人员及其学生介绍新实践的环境，并激励FlowSurge机架、科学网络和科学非军事区的集体采用和使用，就像它是规模实验所需资源的研究工具一样。

The FlowSurge project leverages cyberinfrastructure (CI) resources for Software Defined Networking (SDN) on the FIU campus network, at the AMPATH International Exchange Point, regional, national and international multi-organizations to enhance support for end-to-end Science flows from a researcher's laboratory. FlowSurge's major research contribution is a science network and Science DMZ at FIU tailored to support high-performance science applications and data-intensive flows. The method of installing "FlowSurge Racks" optimized for high-performance and programmability of science flows, and instrumented for monitoring and measuring science flows right in the researchers' laboratories achieves that objective.FlowSurge is motivated by researchers' requirements to: (1) generate science flows to shared CI or CI-connected resources on the campus; at other campuses; or at regional, national or international sites; and (2) Orchestrate and participate in "at-scale" experiments by using FlowSurge to tailor the end-to-end path for optimized high-performance science applications and data-intensive flows. FlowSurge enables IT and network staff at FIU to partition the campus network infrastructure to support Science flows without causing impact to general-purpose flows on the campus. The impact of FlowSurge is an environment that introduces new practices for researchers and their students at FIU (the largest Hispanic minority serving institution within the continental U.S.), and motivates the adoption and use of the FlowSurge rack, the Science network and the Science DMZ collectively as if it were a research instrument for resources needed for at-scale experimentation.