CC* Networking Infrastructure: Bulldog Connectivity and Research

南卡罗来纳州立大学（SCSU）的Bulldog连接和研究网络（BCR网）项目创建了一个网络基础设施，以适应越来越多的STEM和非传统领域的研究活动，如图书馆、视觉艺术、博物馆和天文馆。校园网受到带宽瓶颈的困扰，只支持管理和学术需求，它们竞争着同时使用有限的资源。不连接的计算资源的不同竖井支持了研究实验室中的研究计算，而研究需求的发展几乎没有可伸缩性。BCR网络提供了一个无摩擦的冗余设计，致力于提供高速连接的研究计算。它的设计重点是通过数据路径隔离高通量的研究功能，通过高效的高速连接到研究伙伴。BCR网络与校园企业网络分离，使SCSU的研究人员能够访问按需高带宽科学DMZ连接，以共享存储连接到高吞吐量数据传输节点的安全数字连接的研究数据。大型数据集和指令的传输将在诸如机器人控制望远镜联盟、美国国家科学基金会观测和计算天文学伙伴关系（POCA）、美国国家科学基金会SCI-STEPS INCLUDES项目等项目下实现。其他受影响的地区包括：天体物理学和癌症研究的物理和化学计算实验室，数字媒体实验室，奥兰治堡大屠杀的历史收集和存档收集，应用辐射科学实验室，核工程程序反应堆模拟实验室，以及计算机科学安全实验室。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The Bulldog Connectivity and Research Network (BCR net) project at South Carolina State University (SCSU) creates a network infrastructure to accommodate increasing research activities in STEM and non-traditional areas such as the library, visual arts, museum and the planetarium. The campus enterprise network, plagued with bandwidth bottlenecks, supports only administrative, and academic needs, which competes for simultaneous use of limited resources. Disparate silos of unconnected computing resources have supported research computing in research labs with little scalability to the evolution of research needs. The BCR net provides a frictionless redundant design dedicated to research computing that delivers high-speed connectivity. Its design focuses on isolating high-throughput research functions through data paths on operationally efficient high-speed connections to research partners.BCR net, separate from the campus enterprise network, gives SCSU researchers access to on-demand high bandwidth science DMZ connections to sharable storage of research data connected to high throughput data transfer nodes with secure digital connections. Transfers of large datasets and instructions will be enabled under projects such as the Robotically Controlled Telescope Consortium, the NSF Partnership in Observational and Computational Astronomy (POCA), the NSF SCI-STEPS INCLUDES Project. Other areas affected include; the Physics and Chemistry computational labs for astrophysics and cancer research, the digital media lab, the historical collection and archiving Orangeburg massacre collection, applied radiation sciences lab, the Nuclear Engineering program reactor simulation lab, and the computer science security lab.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.