CC*IIE Networking Infrastructure: Network Expansion to Support Data Intensive Research and Computation at the University of New Mexico

新墨西哥大学(UNM)正在建立一个新的专门的研究网络，与现有的校园生产网络完全分开。虽然生产网络支持各种活动，如注册、评分、购买、无线和宽带下载到学生宿舍，但研究网络的速度快10-100倍，专为快速可靠地传输源自新墨西哥州大学教职员工实验室和项目的超大研究数据集而设计。先进的交换机和与Internet2的快速连接使研究数据能够传输到UNM和其他大学的实验室，包括全州、全国和国际。在从射电天文学到基因组学等“大数据”领域工作的14名UNM教员正在与UNM信息技术公司合作，建立、测试和利用研究网络作为加速和加强研究和科学合作的下一代工具。与UNM超级计算机中心的快速和“无损”连接使大规模计算分析和访问海量存储成为可能。UNM是一家为少数族裔服务的机构，也是美国仅有的卡内基“非常高的研究活动”机构之一，也是一家为拉美裔服务的机构。新的研究网络将作为校园范围的资源，使尖端研究不受数据传输障碍的阻碍。它将把新墨西哥州大学与其他研究型大学联系起来，建立一个全州范围的网络；支持对NSF的全国超级计算机中心网络(XSEDE)的访问；实现对基于云的计算的快速访问；并将全州范围的网络连接到全美新兴的大学研究网络。

The University of New Mexico (UNM) is establishing a new, dedicated Research Network, entirely separate from the existing campus production network. While the production network supports diverse activities such as registration, grades, purchasing, wireless and broadband downloads to student dormitories, the 10-100x-faster Research Network is designed exclusively for the rapid and reliable transfer of ultra-large research datasets originating in UNM faculty labs and projects. Advanced switches and fast connections to Internet2 enable the transfer of research data: to labs within UNM and other universities, statewide, nationally, and internationally. Fourteen UNM faculty spanning eight departments, working in "big data" fields ranging from radio astronomy to genomics, are collaborating with UNM Information Technologies to establish, test, and utilize the Research Network as a next-generation instrument for accelerating and enhancing research and scientific collaborations. Fast and "lossless" connections to the UNM supercomputer center enable large-scale computational analyses and access to mass storage.UNM is a Minority-Serving Institution and one of the only Carnegie "very high research activity" Institutions in the U.S. that is also a Hispanic-Serving Institution. The new Research Network will serve as a campus-wide resource, enabling cutting-edge research unhindered by data transfer barriers. It will link UNM with the other New Mexico research universities to establish the beginnings of a statewide network; support access to NSF's national network of supercomputer centers (XSEDE); enable fast access to cloud-based computing; and link the statewide network to emerging university research networks throughout the U.S.