CC-NIE Networking Infrastructure: Infrastructure Upgrades for Advancing Discovery

现在，在科学和社会科学领域创造的大量大数据产生了非凡的新知识和经验机会，对整个社会产生了影响。 虽然高性能计算长期以来一直可用于处理这样的大数据集，研究人员和机构必须仔细设计网络计算环境，以便在真实的时间内进行有用的分析。 达特茅斯目前这种分析的最大局限之一是简单地将数据从产生和存储的地方转移到进行分析的地方：现在，简单地将数据传输到计算机进行分析所需的时间往往比数据一旦存在的分析时间要长。 达特茅斯拥有许多上级高性能计算资产，但这些资产目前在网络上作为孤岛存在。 这项提案支持的工作是将达特茅斯的高性能计算资产整合到一个高速网络-科学DMZ -上，该网络与主校园网络分开。 科学DMZ允许达特茅斯计算集群和文件存储系统的最佳配置;从研究人员的工作流程中消除文件存储和移动问题;并为未来的系统增长和创新提供强大而安全的科学网络骨干。 科学DMZ网络将极大地加快达特茅斯的科学研究步伐。 特别是，科学DMZ将大大扩大谁执行独立研究，每年超过500名本科生和研究生在达特茅斯的研究生和专业课程完成他们的工作的能力。

The flood of Big Data now being created across the sciences and social sciences has produced extraordinary new intellectual and empirical opportunities with implications throughout society. While high performance computing has long been available for processing such large data sets, researchers and institutions must carefully design network computing environments in order to effect useful analyses in real time. One of the greatest limitations of such analyses at Dartmouth currently is simply moving data from where it is produced and stored to where analyses are done: simply getting the data to the computer for analysis can now often take longer than the analysis will take once the data is there. Dartmouth has a number of superior high performance computing assets, but these currently exist as silos on the network. The work supported by this proposal is consolidating Dartmouth's high performance computing assets onto one high-speed network - the Science DMZ - that is separate from the main campus network. The Science DMZ allows optimal configuration of the Dartmouth computing clusters and file storage systems; alleviates file storage and movement issues from the workflow of researchers; and provides a robust and secure scientific network backbone for future system growth and innovation. The Science DMZ network will tremendously increase the pace of scientific research done at Dartmouth. In particular, the Science DMZ will greatly expand the abilities of the more than 500 undergraduates who perform independent research each year and graduate students across Dartmouth's graduate and professional programs to accomplish their work.