CC* Networking Infrastructure: Advancing High-speed Networking at UTC for Research and Education

包括研究人员和田纳西大学查塔努加分校信息技术办公室（UTC）在内的多元化PI团队正在升级校园网络基础设施，以提高教授和学生执行、增强和扩展研发活动的能力。该项目补充了联合技术大学其他重大和正在进行的投资/升级，以加强校园内部和内部网络以及研究计算网络基础设施。UTC不断增长的研究组合，以教师为导向，以数据为导向的研究推动了网络升级。100Gbit/s光纤网络基础设施、交换和路由基础设施升级。Science DMZ基础设施和数据传输节点（DTN）服务器都是用于校际协作和大规模数据传输的组件，它们支持大数据和以数据为中心的外部协作的新用途。该项目将网络升级到代表所有四所大学学院（工程与计算机科学、艺术与科学、加里·w·罗林斯商学院和健康、教育和专业研究学院）的八座联合技术大学校园建筑，以及多学科研究大楼（MDRB）和校园图书馆。在这些建筑中，校园内至少有14个科学驱动（项目）受益于拟议的基础设施；其中一些项目是由NSF资助的或由外部支持的。三个研究中心的共同位置加上联合技术大学在MDRB的研究计算设施增加了校园的影响。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。

A diverse PI team including researchers and the Office of Information Technology at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC) is upgrading the campus network infrastructure to improve the ability for professors and students to perform, enhance, and expand R&D activities. This project complements other significant and ongoing investments/upgrades at UTC to enhance campus intra- and inter-networking and research computing cyberinfrastructure. UTC's growing research portfolio of faculty-driven, data-oriented research drives the network upgrades. 100Gbit/s fiber networking infrastructure, switching, and routing infrastructure are upgraded by this project. A Science DMZ infrastructure and Data Transfer Node (DTN) server, both components used for inter-campus collaborations and tuned for large-scale data transfers, support the emerging uses of big data and data-centric external collaborations.The project upgrades networking to eight UTC campus buildings representing all four university colleges (Engineering & Computer Science, Arts & Sciences, The Gary W. Rollins College of Business, and the College of Health, Education, and Professional Studies), as well as the Multidisciplinary Research Building (MDRB) and the campus library. In these buildings, at least fourteen science drivers (projects) on campus benefit from the proposed infrastructure; several of the projects are either NSF funded or otherwise externally supported. The co-location of three research centers plus UTC's research computing facilities in the MDRB adds to the campus impact.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.