CC-NIE Network Infrastructure: Enabling Big-Data Science Collaboration at Georgetown

乔治城大学正在升级主校区和医疗中心校区的高端网络，以支持理学院。这些教职员工经常在校园内、跨学科内、与其他大学、大型私人研究机构和国家实验室的同事合作，研究复杂的物理学、基因组学、功能磁共振成像、互联网搜索索引和其他计算密集型主题。这些网络改进使GU的科学大楼、校园主干、校外数据中心、中大西洋十字路口（MAX） Gigapop和Internet2之间的端到端10gbps连接成为可能。在建筑物内的选定位置提供1Gbps或10Gbps的连接。共享和分析大型数据集以及传播发现的能力促进了科学和技术的理解。GU科学设施的改善导致了本科和研究生STEM学生的申请和入学人数的增加。该基础设施旨在进一步加强GU的STEM研究和教育。过去5年的投资使计算机科学系的教师人数增加了一倍；新建了生物、化学和物理教室；并加强其他基础设施以支持研究，包括支持计算核心设施，创建一个孤立的安全研究网络，以及增加数据存储容量。该奖项使300多名主校区和医学中心的研究人员能够在校园内合作和广泛分享他们的工作，连接设备，增强他们与校外研究人员合作的能力，并使相邻医学校园的广泛基础科学研究受益。

Georgetown is upgrading high-end networking across the main and medical center campuses to support science faculty. These faculty routinely collaborate across the campuses, within and across disciplines, and with colleagues at other universities, at-large private research facilities, and National Labs as they research complex physics, genomics, functional magnetic resonance imaging, Internet search indexing, and other computationally-intensive topics. These network improvements enable end-to-end 10 Gbps connectivity among GU's science buildings, campus backbone, off-campus data center, Mid-Atlantic Crossroads (MAX) Gigapop, and Internet2. 1Gbps or 10Gbps connections are provided to select locations within the buildings. The ability to share and analyze large datasets, and disseminate findings advances scientific and technological understanding. Improvements in GU's science facilities have led to increased applications and enrollments of undergraduate and graduate STEM students. This infrastructure is designed to further bolster STEM research and education at GU. Investments during the past 5 years have doubled the size of faculty in the Computer Science Department; built a new building for biology, chemistry, and physics; and enhanced other infrastructure to support research, including support of a computational core facility, creating an isolated security research network, and increased data storage capacity. This award is enabling over 300 Main Campus and Medical Center researchers to collaborate and broadly share their work on campus, connect equipment, enhance their ability to collaborate with researchers off campus, as well as benefit extensive basic sciences research on the contiguous medical campus.