CC* Regional: Advancing Maryland Research and Education Network for Under-Resourced Institutions Through a Science DMZ and 10Gbps Upgrade

MDREN，即马里兰州研究与教育网络，是马里兰州大学系统下的一个组织，为整个马里兰州的40多个教育、研究和公共服务机构提供先进的网络服务，并连接到地区和国家资源。高速网络基础设施对我们社区的研究人员和STEM教育工作者至关重要。较小/资源不足/农村机构，如弗罗斯特堡州立大学（FSU），索尔兹伯里大学（SU），马里兰大学环境科学中心（UMCES）的四个研究实验室，马里兰大学医学院（UMSOM）的马里兰精神病学研究中心（MPRC），而像马里兰大学东岸分校（University of Maryland Eastern Shore）和摩根州立大学（Morgan State University）这样的hbcu，在他们自己以及NOAA、NASA、NIH、USGS和其他合作者之间访问和传输庞大的数据集方面存在严重的限制。该提案将6个机构（包括研究中心和实验室）的网络带宽显著提高了10倍，并为来自其他站点的数据传输增加了Science DMZ，以充分发挥这些机构的潜力。这些升级使每个机构的研究人员能够可靠地连接到超级计算机和大数据存储库，提高计算能力，并增加机构间的协作。MDREN将有一条从科学DMZ机器到每个实验室的特殊路径，这将促进高速传输。这比通过校园防火墙进行传输要快得多。该提案有助于农村或资源不足的机构和hbcu更好地与大马里兰州地区的同行机构、世界各地的合作者以及NASA、NIH和NOAA等关键科学组织合作。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。

MDREN, the Maryland Research and Education Network, an organization under the University System of Maryland, provides advanced network services to 40+ education, research, and public service institutions throughout the State of Maryland and connections to regional and national resources.High-speed networking infrastructure is vital to researchers and STEM educators in our community. Smaller/under resourced/rural institutions like Frostburg State University (FSU), Salisbury University (SU), the four research labs that are part of University of Maryland Center for Environmental Sciences (UMCES), the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center (MPRC) as part of University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM), and HBCUs like University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES) and Morgan State University have serious limitations in accessing and transferring huge datasets amongst themselves and collaborators at NOAA, NASA, NIH, USGS, and others. This proposal significantly increases network bandwidth for 6 institutions including research centers and labs by 10x and adds a Science DMZ for data transfers from other sites to enable the full potential of these institutions. These upgrades allow researchers at each institution to reliably connect to supercomputers and big data repositories, increase computational capabilities, and increase inter-institution collaboration. MDREN will a special path from the science DMZ machine to each lab that will facilitate high speed transfer. This would be significantly faster than doing transfers through campus firewalls.This proposal helps rural or under-resourced institutions and HBCUs better collaborate with peer institutions in the greater Maryland region, collaborators around the world, and key science organizations such as NASA, NIH, and NOAA.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.