CC*DNI Engineer: Cyberinfrastructure Engineer at Case Western Reserve University

凯斯西储大学(CWRU)在其校园网络基础设施方面进行了大量投资，以支持日益计算、数据和网络密集型的研究。NSF资助的网络基础设施工程师(CIE)与研究人员密切合作，了解他们的需求并指导他们使用网络基础设施以确保最佳效益，还与大学网络工程师合作对网络基础设施进行架构、设计和配置更改，以更好地服务于研究界，并确保他们能够充分利用当地、地区和国家的网络基础设施。CIE是一个新兴计划的一部分，该计划将大学研究计算和网络基础设施(RCCI)部门的工作人员嵌入关键研究小组，在这些小组之间提供联系，并为他们在网络基础设施方面的需求提供协作技术支持，包括高性能计算、数据密集型计算、私有云、Peta规模存储和端到端网络性能。CIE不仅与CWRU研究小组接触，还与他们在其他机构的合作者接触，以确保所有机构和连接它们的网络路径上的网络基础设施资源得到最佳利用。随着研究人员解决越来越大的问题，并在地理上分散的研究团队中进行合作，以及他们努力在国家战略计算倡议范围内融合数据密集型和数值密集型计算，此类活动是一个至关重要的成功因素。最后，CIE参与向在STEM教育研究和学习经验中依赖校园网络基础设施的学生进行正式课堂演示。在CWRU，CIE主要负责大学的科学非军事区、执行SONAR和数据传输节点服务。由于科学非军事区与大学的高性能计算、数据密集型计算、私有云、Peta规模的在线研究存储和近线研究数据归档服务紧密集成，CIE的责任扩展到校园网络基础设施的所有领域，需要与在这些领域负有主要责任的工作人员密切协调和合作。为了确保最佳的端到端网络性能，CIE经常与其他大学、政府机构以及地区和国家网络组织的同行合作，包括Internet2、俄亥俄州学术和研究网络、俄亥俄州超级计算中心、NIH设施(如NCBI)、能源部设施(如ORNL)和NSF资助的国家超级计算机中心。CIE参与了该大学在IPv6、身份和访问管理、SDN和OpenFlow方面的努力，并与信息安全和网络安全组织密切合作。

Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) has made significant investment in its campus cyberinfrastructure to support research that is increasingly compute-, data-, and network-intensive. The NSF-funded Cyberinfrastructure Engineer (CIE) collaborates closely with researchers to understand their needs and guide their use of cyberinfrastructure to ensure optimal benefit, and also works with university network engineers to make architectural, design, and configuration changes to the cyberinfrastructure to better serve the research community and ensure they are able to fully leverage local, regional, and national cyberinfrastructure. The CIE is part of an emerging program that embeds staff from the university's Research Computing and Cyberinfrastructure (RCCI) unit within key research groups to provide a liaison between these groups and to provide collaborative technical support for their needs in cyberinfrastructure, including high performance computing, data-intensive computing, private cloud, peta-scale storage, and end-to-end network performance. The CIE engages not only with CWRU research groups, but also with their collaborators at other institutions to ensure the optimal use of cyberinfrastructure resources at all institutions and along the network paths that link them. Such activity is a critically important success factor as researchers tackle increasingly large problems and collaborate in geographically distributed research teams, and as they work to converge data-intensive and numerically intensive computing within the National Strategic Computing Initiative. Finally, the CIE participates in formal classroom presentations to students who rely on campus cyberinfrastructure in their research and learning experience in STEM education.At CWRU, the CIE has primary responsibility for the university Science DMZ , perfSONAR, and data transfer node services. As the Science DMZ is tightly integrated with the university's high performance computing, data-intensive computing, private cloud, peta-scale online research storage, and near-line research data archive services, the CIE's responsibility extends into all areas of campus cyberinfrastructure and requires close coordination and collaboration with staff having primary responsibility in those areas. To ensure optimal end-to-end network performance, the CIE routinely works in collaboration with peers at other universities, government institutions, and regional and national networking organizations including Internet2, the Ohio Academic and Research Network, Ohio Supercomputing Center, NIH facilities such as NCBI, DoE facilities such as ORNL, and the NSF-funded national supercomputer centers. The CIE is involved in the university's efforts in IPv6, identity and access management, SDN, and OpenFlow, and works closely with information security and the network security groups.