CC* Networking Infrastructure: The Roadrunner High-Performance Science, Engineering, and Business DMZ

网络安全、生物信息学、云计算、机器学习、人工智能、实时计算和其他相关领域的世界级研究需要高效且通常近乎即时地访问大型数据集，以缩短从理论到发现的时间。此外，发现往往是跨学科和多机构的。因此，一个关键的使能功能，有效的，协作研究是一个专用的高速网络，是无处不在的整个校园。德克萨斯大学圣安东尼奥分校（UTSA），一个西班牙裔服务机构，正在实施一个专用的研究网络（DMZ），以促进数据密集型计算和研究合作的努力。这种基础设施填补了目前存在于从研究实验室到DMZ的“最后一英里”瓶颈中的空白。特别是，该项目要求在整个校园内安装10 Gb/s交换机，与专用研究网络相配合，提供5- 10倍的数据传输速率。这些改进促进了UTSA教师和学生访问校园的高性能计算设施，高速数据存储和可视化实验室以及德克萨斯州奥斯汀的德克萨斯州高级计算中心（TACC）。新的网络还加强了体验式学习活动，如UTSA的年度CyberPatriot竞赛，云和高性能计算的本科生研究项目，本科生云计算ELab培训，该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值进行评估，被认为值得支持和更广泛的影响审查标准。

World-class research in cyber security, bioinformatics, cloud computing, machine learning, artificial intelligence, real-time computing and other related areas requires efficient and often near-immediate access to large data sets in order to reduce the time from theory to discovery. In addition, discoveries are often interdisciplinary and multi-institutional. As a result, a critical enabling feature for impactful, collaborative research is a dedicated high-speed network that is omnipresent across a campus. The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), a Hispanic Serving Institution, is implementing a dedicated research network (DMZ) to facilitate data-intensive computation and research collaboration endeavors. This infrastructure fills a gap that currently exists in the "last mile" bottleneck from a research lab to the DMZ. In particular, the project calls for installation of 10 Gb/s switches across campus that, in concert with the dedicated research network, provide 5-10X faster data transfer rates. These improvements foster access by UTSA faculty and students to the campus' high-performance computing facility, high-speed data storage, and visualization laboratory as well as the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) in Austin, Texas. The new network also enhances experiential learning activities such as UTSA's annual CyberPatriot competition, undergraduate research projects in cloud and high-performance computing, cloud computing ELab training for undergraduates, as well as certification programs such as the Master's level certification in cloud computing.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.