CC-IIE Networking Infrastructure: KGEN: Next-generation networking environments for biological and agricultural data-driven research at Kansas State University

该项目增强了堪萨斯州立大学的内部网络能力，以支持科学和工程领域的高端应用，特别是生物信息学。目前的研究正在向大数据集发展，在这种情况下，1 Gb或更低的典型桌面网络连接会阻碍工作效率。该项目通过提供比当前可用的网络快一个数量级的网络来消除千兆瓶颈，这使得堪萨斯州立大学的研究人员无法与本地和远程合作伙伴充分有效地合作。该项目还为探索生物信息学、基因组学、高通量表型和高性能计算的K-12、社区大学和堪萨斯州学术界的研究和教育扩展提供了试验台。堪萨斯州立大学正在安装具有40GbE核心和大量10GbE端口的企业级路由器，为将KSU的生物信息学研究人员的网络能力升级到其主要研究实验室奠定基础，包括KSU校园超级计算机集群、节肢动物基因组学中心和集成基因组学设施的端到端连接。这影响了16个地点的研究人员、数百名研究生和数百万美元的资助研究。改进的连接使科学家在对基因组建模时能够更深入地研究，从而能够开发用于表型鉴定和生物信息学的新算法。这些进展反过来又有助于通过更好地了解对关键农产品的威胁，如攻击小麦作物的黑粉虫，或确定提高抗旱性的基因，从而帮助保护国家的粮食供应。

This project enhances the internal networking capabilities at Kansas State University to support high-end applications in science and engineering, particularly bioinformatics. Current research is moving towards large datasets, where typical desktop network connectivity of one gigabit or less bottlenecks productivity. This project eliminates the gigabit bottleneck by providing an order of magnitude faster networking than currently available, which is preventing researchers at Kansas State from fully and effectively collaborating with both local and distant partners. This project also provides a testbed for research and educational outreach to K-12, community-college, and Kansas-wide academics to explore bioinformatics, genomics, high-throughput phenotyping, and high performance computing.Kansas State University is installing enterprise-grade routers with a 40GbE core and plentiful 10GbE ports to provide a foundation for upgrading KSU's bioinformatics researchers' network capacity to their major research labs, including end-to-end connectivity for KSU's campus supercomputer cluster, the Arthropod Genomics Center, and the Integrated Genomics Facility. This impacts researchers across 16 locations, hundreds of graduate students, and millions of dollars in funded research.The improved connectivity allows scientists to look deeper when modeling genomes, enabling new algorithms to be developed for phenotyping and bioinformatics. These advancements in turn help protect the nation's food supply through developing better understanding of threats to key agricultural products like the Hessian fly, which attacks wheat crops, or determining genes which improve drought resistance.