High Performance Research Network

加州大学戴维斯分校博德加海洋实验室（BML）将建立一个高性能、容错和适应性强的光纤局域网。BML位于北加州海岸的偏远地区，尽管位置偏远，但BML可以通过at&t的光纤服务获得高达10gb /s的可用带宽，与主要大都市地区的带宽相当，但老化的内部局域网基础设施（在广域网带宽为1.5Mbps时开发）是一个严重的限制。BML的光纤互联网连接目前类似于一条“新的高速公路”，然而BML内部与外部（WAN）的连接类似于一条“颠簸的砾石路”，减缓了外部高速基础设施可以提供的优势。新的高性能内部架构旨在支持研究、教学、公共教育和数据采集/传播；无论是在整个设施还是在其他地方。BML位于科学相关的位置。它是加利福尼亚海岸上升流环境研究的主要开放海岸研究设施。先进的技术资源包括充足的带宽（外部互联网接入）、网络存储、视频会议能力、对长期大气、海洋学和生物数据的访问、BML和机构操作的传感器网络、海洋观测节点、大学图书馆资源、海水系统、病原体控制设施、气候变化研究设施、对362英亩的Bodega海洋保护区的访问，以及专门的实验室仪器和显微镜。增强的网络容量为加州大学戴维斯分校的研究人员、访问研究人员、博士后和学生提供了足够的带宽，可以轻松地探索、发现、分析和利用其他站点以及本地数据源的数据。此外，BML和其他地方的教育和推广项目将直接受益于基础设施的改善。公共教育项目将能够直接向公众传播科学，而参观BML的公众将通过高质量、交互式计算机驱动的解释性展示了解研究，这些展示将通过局域网访问数据产品。加州大学戴维斯分校生物医学中心的研究是高度跨学科的，特别是在气候变化对生态系统的影响方面，在物理陆海界面数据（例如海洋学，气象学）和生物反应之间有很强的联系。Bodega海洋观测节点和Bodega海洋酸化研究小组之间的紧密合作意味着，大型物理数据集可以定期共享并整合到生物学（基因组和转录组学）数据中。在联邦欧空局许可下，极度濒危的白鲍鱼圈养繁殖计划位于BML，并生成非常大的高清和360度视频和图像文件，用于分析幼虫和种鱼的摄食。对于这种规模的数据，当前局域网在工作时间禁止常规的文件传输或备份。通常，实验室之间的备份或简单文件传输需要花费一夜的时间。BML面临的“大数据”挑战的例子包括访问计算集群，用于海洋无脊椎动物种群的基因组和转录组分析，以及用于评估生殖条件的濒危物种（白鲍鱼）的蛋白质组分析。高分辨率数值模式和高分辨率海洋观测数据（如高频雷达、二氧化碳分压、O2、电导率、荧光等）的管理为正常上升流模式变化对气候变化的生物响应提供了基础。跨学科环境研究的强度、多样性和合作正在迅速增长，部分原因是加州大学戴维斯分校90多名海洋科学和政策教师作为新海岸和海洋科学研究所的一部分合并在一起。

The University of California Davis Bodega Marine Laboratory (BML) will establish a fiber-optic local area network that is high-performance, fault-tolerant, and adaptable. BML is located in a remote region of the Northern California coast, despite the remote location, BML has access to available bandwidth up to 10 GB/s through AT&T's fiber service, comparable to bandwidth offerings in major metropolitan areas but the aged, internal local area network infrastructure (developed when the WAN bandwidth was 1.5Mbps) is a severe limitation. BML's fiber internet connection is currently analogous to a "new superhighway", however BML's internal connection to the outside (WAN) is analogous to a "bumpy gravel road" slowing down the advantage that the external high speed infrastructure can provide. The new high performance internal architecture is designed to support research, instruction, public education, and data acquisition/dissemination; both across the facility and beyond. BML is situated in a scientifically relevant location. It is the primary open-coast research facility for research in upwelling environments along the California coast. Sophisticated technical resources include ample bandwidth (external internet access), network storage, video conferencing capability, access to long-term atmospheric, oceanographic, and biological data, BML- and agency-operated sensor networks, an ocean-observing node, University library resources, seawater system, pathogen containment facilities, climate change research facilities, access to the 362-acre Bodega Marine Reserve, and specialized laboratory instruments and microscopy.Enhanced network capacity provides both UC Davis researchers, visiting researchers, post docs, and students with bandwidth sufficient to easily explore, discover, analyze and utilize data at other sites as well as local data sources. Further, education and outreach programs, both at BML and elsewhere will benefit directly from the enhanced infrastructure. Public education programs will be able to disseminate science directly to the public and public visitors to BML will learn about research via high-quality, interactive computer-driven interpretive displays that will access data products across the local area network. Research at UC Davis BML is highly interdisciplinary particularly in the impacts of climate change on ecosystems, with a strong linkage between physical land-sea interface data (e.g. oceanographic, meterological) and biological responses. Strong collaborations between the Bodega Ocean Observing Node and the Bodega Ocean Acidification Research group means that large physical data sets are shared and integrated into biological (genomic and transcriptomic) data on a routine basis. The critically endangered white abalone captive breeding program under a federal ESA permit is located at BML and generates very large High Definition and 360-degree video and image files for analysis of larvae and feeding by broodstock. For data of this scale, the current LAN inhibits routine file transfer or backup during working hours. Often backup or simple file transfer between labs can take overnight. Examples of 'big data' challenges at BML include accessing computing clusters for genome and transcriptome analyses of populations of marine invertebrates as well as proteomic analyses from endangered species (white abalone) for assessment of reproductive conditioning. High-resolution numerical models and management of high-resolution ocean-observing data (e.g., high frequency radar, pCO2, O2, conductivity, fluorescence, etc.) provide the basis for biological responses to climate change as related to changes in normal upwelling patterns. Interdisciplinary environmental research intensity, diversity and collaborations are growing rapidly in part due to the coalescence of more than 90 marine science and policy faculty at UC Davis as part of the new Coastal and Marine Sciences Institute.