CC*IIE Networking Infrastructure: Campus Networking for Transformative Exascale Research

德克萨斯大学阿灵顿分校是一所综合性研究机构，位于达拉斯要塞的中心地带，为超过33,000名学生提供服务。Worth Metroplex。该大学开展的许多科研项目都需要高带宽的网络连接。虽然地区和国家网络提供到Metroplex的这种连接，但园区基础设施目前无法支持这些较高的速率。现代网络技术，如科学非军事区和软件定义网络，也需要改变核心园区网络的设计。该项目通过部署高性能的路由设备来改进和现代化UT-Arlington网络基础设施，以支持在Exabyte规模的大学校园的研究。UT-Arlington的科学家正在研究来自大型强子对撞机的数据，以测量新发现的希格斯玻色子的性质，并寻找新的物理定律。研究人员正在研究数据，以推动基因组学和生物信息学领域的发展，并为开发个性化的药物和疾病治疗方法奠定基础。对地球板块运动、大脑研究以及生物工程、全球环境、数据挖掘和化学结构的数学建模的研究，为从当地到全球的环境问题、医疗保健等许多问题提供了至关重要的定量评估，并促进了我们的科学理解和工程专业知识。水管理研究对西南地区的环境管理至关重要。在支持这些和其他研究领域方面，改进的校园网络为该地区带来了好处，促进了科学知识，并帮助培训了德克萨斯大学阿灵顿分校多样化的学生群体。

The University of Texas at Arlington is a comprehensive research institution serving over 33,000 students in the heart of the Dallas-Ft. Worth Metroplex. Many scientific research projects carried out at the university require high bandwidth network connections. While regional and national networks provide such connections to the Metroplex, the campus infrastructure cannot currently support these higher rates. Modern networking technologies like Science DMZ's and Software Defined Networks also require changes to the core campus network design. This project improves and modernizes the UT-Arlington network infrastructure by deploying high performance routing equipment in order to support research on the university campus at the Exabyte scale.Scientists at UT-Arlington are studying data from the Large Hadron Collider to measure the properties of the newly discovered Higgs boson, and to search for new laws of physics. Researchers are studying data to advance the fields of genomics and bioinformatics, and to prepare a foundation for developing individualized approaches to medicine and the treatment of illnesses. Research in earth plate movements, brain research, and mathematical modeling of bioengineering, global environments, data mining and chemical structures provide crucial quantitative assessments on many issues ranging from local to global environmental concerns, healthcare, and advance our scientific understanding and engineering expertise. Water management research is crucial to environment stewardship in the Southwest region. In supporting these and other research areas, improved campus networking provides benefit to the region, advances scientific knowledge, and helps train the diverse student population at UT-Arlington.