CC* Networking Infrastructure: Jackson State University (JSU)-Research Network

该项目为杰克逊州立大学（JSU）的研究人员提供了校园网络基础设施（CI）能力，允许扩展大数据和其他网络密集型合作研究，这些研究依赖于高速网络访问本地、区域、云和国家计算和存储资源。该项目将研究网络容量增加到100G，重新构建校园研究网络，并战略性地重新安置设备，以利用科学非军事区（非军事区-即没有防火墙和其他摩擦设备）。研究网络包括集中汇集的高性能/吞吐量计算（HPC/HTC）资源，旨在满足当前和未来的研究需求。由于集中的、训练有素的企业信息技术团队对CI资产进行管理和监视，因此可能会增加对领域科学家人才的关注。该项目增强了对研究人员的端到端网络服务，是不断增长的校园范围内跨学科数据科学计划的重要催化剂。解决了大数据分析、可视化、纳米毒性、复杂网络分析、科学驱动和教育的特定应用网络和计算需求。教职员工、学生以及校园内和校园内的IT人员都致力于利用新环境来满足他们的研究、教育和运营需求。该项目通过与密西西比州历史悠久的黑人学院和大学以及其他大学或社区学院系统的外展研讨会活动进行传播，这些大学或社区学院系统可能正在计划类似的校园网络升级。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。

This project provides Jackson State University (JSU) researchers with a campus cyber infrastructure (CI) capability allowing expansion of big data and other network intensive collaborative research that depend on high-speed network access to local, regional, cloud and national compute and storage resources. The project increases research network capacity to 100G, re-architects the campus research network, and strategic relocation of equipment to utilize a Science DMZ (Demilitarized zone - i.e., free from firewalls and other friction devices). The research network includes centrally pooled High-Performance/Throughput Computing (HPC/HTC) resources designed to meet immediate and future research needs. An increased focus on domain scientist talent is possible due to management and monitoring of the CI assets by a centralized, well-trained enterprise information technology team. This project enhances the end-to-end network services for researchers and is an important catalyst for the growing campus-wide interdisciplinary data science program. Application-specific network and computational needs for big data analytics, visualization, nanotoxicity, complex network analysis, science drivers and education are addressed. Faculty, students, and the IT staff on campus and across campuses are engaged to leverage the new environment for their research, education, and operational needs. The project is disseminated through outreach workshop activities with Historical Black Colleges and Universities and other universities or the community college systems within the state of Mississippi who may be planning similar campus network upgrades.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.