CC* Network Design: Improve Network on Campus for Research and Education in Agriculture, Science, and Engineering at Prairie View A&M University

草原景观农工大学(PVAMU)，一所历史上的黑人学院和大学，正在实施科学非军事区，以改善农业、科学和工程研究和教育校园网络(RAING)，这是对现有网络基础设施的升级，使研究人员能够有效地在大数据和数据密集型科学领域工作。这一增加项目使网络安全、高性能计算、计算化学、脑成像、基因组学和生物信息学等领域的数据驱动研究成为可能。它为来自三所学院七个系的PVAMU研究人员提供了更好的可视化和协作机制。这会带来更好的教育资源，以在少数族裔服务机构培训学生。该项目特别将来自四个研究中心的研究人员紧密联系在一起，形成一个新的校园网络基础设施基础。增加网络绕过PVAMU-IT的防火墙，与现有基础设施集成，并通过Lonestar教育和研究网络(LINE)提供PVAMU和Internet2之间更好的连接。它还提供与其他研究型大学和全国高性能计算资源的高带宽互联。作为网络设计的一部分，我们考虑了对软件定义网络解决方案的需求，该解决方案可以有选择地引导Science DMZ流量绕过园区防火墙解决方案，并考虑实施深度数据包检测和入侵防御服务，以便将未注册的连接路由到Science DMZ和从Science DMZ路由出。对增长网络的研究和探索可以为类似规模的大学追求和利用研究资源提供指导。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU), a Historically Black College and University, is implementing a Science DMZ to Improve Network on Campus for Research and Education in Agriculture, Science, and Engineering (INCREASE), which is an upgrade to current cyberinfrastructure that allows researchers to effectively work in the fields of Big Data and Data Intensive science. This INCREASE project enables data driven research in the areas of cyber security, high performance computing, computational chemistry, brain imaging, genomics, and bioinformatics. It provides better visualization and collaboration mechanisms for PVAMU researchers from seven departments in three colleges. It leads to better educational resources to train students at a minority serving institution. The INCREASE project specifically ties researchers from four research centers closely together to form a new foundation of campus cyberinfrastructure.The INCREASE network, bypassing PVAMU-IT's firewall, integrates with existing infrastructure and provides improved connectivity between PVAMU and Internet2 via Lonestar Education and Research Network (LEARN). It also provides high bandwidth interconnectivity to other research universities and High Performance Computing resources nationwide. As part of the network design, the need for Software Defined Networking solutions that can selectively steer Science DMZ traffic around the campus firewall solution as well as look into implementing a deep-packet inspection and Intrusion Prevention Service to route unregistered connections in and out of the Science DMZ is considered. The study and exploration of the INCREASE network can provide guidance for universities of similar scale to pursue and utilize research resources.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.