CC-NIE Networking Infrastructure: High Performance Science Network (HPSNet) at Northwestern University

西北大学高性能数据网络（HPDNet）通过在西北大学两个主要校区内和校区之间的选定研究实验室、教学环境和仪器设备之间提供高性能互连，从而增强研究能力并显著扩大跨学科研究的机会，从而支持数据密集型科学研究。该网络直接影响的研究项目包括：*计算化学：实现tb级数据集的可视化，旨在了解DNA结构和机械特性如何影响与蛋白质的结合。*化学工程：将大型数据集转移到分析设施，用于探索减少汽车排放，开发燃料电池和绿色化学过程。*理论化学：在校园和国家设施之间移动大型数据集，用于探索分子系统中的电荷转移。*高能物理：加速多tb数据集的移动和分析，作为希格斯玻色子发现项目的一部分*纳米尺度科学：将细胞中纳米颗粒的大规模三维光学成像转移到计算机集群进行分析，这允许监测细胞内运动的能力。该网络对这些项目所代表的部门和实验室的本科生和研究生的研究和培训能力有直接影响，通过多个区域、国家和国际设施之间的相互联系，扩大了获得内部和外部研究资源的机会。该网络是作为一个更广泛的科学网络战略计划中的一个长期资源来实施的，该战略计划旨在加强科学研究、教学和合作，重点是加强本科生实际参与科学研究的场所。

The Northwestern University High Performance Data Network (HPDNet) supports data intensive scientific research by providing high performance interconnects among select research laboratories, teaching environments, and instrumentation facilities on and between the two primary campuses of Northwestern University, thereby enhancing research capabilities and significantly expanding opportunities for interdisciplinary research. The research projects directly impacted by this network include:* Computational Chemistry: enabled visualization of terabyte-sized datasets aimed at understanding how DNA structures and mechanical properties influence binding to proteins.* Chemical Engineering: transfer of large datasets to analytical facilities used to explore reduction of automotive emissions, development of fuel cells, and green chemistry processes. * Theoretical Chemistry: movement of large datasets between the campus and national facilities used in the exploration of charge transfer in molecular systems.* High-Energy Physics: Accelerated the movement and analysis of multi-terabyte datasets being generated as part of the Higgs Boson discovery project* Nanoscale Science: transfer of large-scale 3-dimensional optical imaging of nanoparticles in cells, which allows the ability to monitor intracellular movement, to computer clusters for analysis.This network has direct impact on the undergraduate and graduate research and training capabilities in the departments and labs represented by these projects, broadening access to internal and external research resources through interconnects among multiple regional, national and international facilities.The network is implemented as a long term resource within a wider science networking strategic plan targeted towards enhancing scientific research, teaching and collaboration with an emphasis on enhancing venues for hands-on participation in scientific researcher by undergraduate students.