CC* Networking Infrastructure: Enhancing SIUC Campus Cyberinfrastructure to Accelerate Data-Driven Research and Education

该项目在南伊利诺伊大学卡本代尔分校现有的校园网络基础设施（CI）上实现了一个高性能的研究和教育网络架构。该项目解决了当前校园核心网的性能瓶颈，建立了新的基础设施，实现了与对等机构的高吞吐量数据传输和校园专用无线宽带服务。更新后的CI可实现快速增长的数据密集型研究和教育应用所需的高效和高通量数据移动，涵盖校园内广泛的学术领域，包括化学和生物化学、物理、工程、植物生物学、统计学、计算机科学等。该项目建立在校园信息技术专家、网络学院和领域研究人员之间强有力的伙伴关系的基础上。它还提供了培训CI员工的绝佳机会。该项目包括三个任务：1)通过使用新的路由器和10gbps链路在9个核心位置增加冗余来增强校园核心网络。这些更新增加了为整个校园提供可靠和高性能网络服务所需的容量和冗余；2)建立Science DMZ和相关网络性能监控框架，使研究人员能够与外部主机高速获取和共享数据；3)在3.65 GHz CBRS频谱上建立专门用于研究和教育的专用LTE网络。五个数据密集型科学和教育应用程序原型，以演示该项目支持的新的CI功能和工作流程。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 implements a high-performance research and education network architecture over the existing campus cyberinfrastructure (CI) at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. The project solves the performance bottleneck of the current campus core network and establishes new infrastructures enabling high-throughput data transfer with peer institutions and on-campus private wireless broadband service. The updated CI enables efficient and high-throughput data movement needed by fast-growing data-intensive research and education applications across broad academic domains on campus including Chemistry and Biochemistry, Physics, Engineering, Plant Biology, Statistics, Computer Science, etc. The project builds upon a strong partnership among campus information technology experts, networking faculties, and domain researchers. It also provides an exceptional opportunity to train the CI workforce. The project includes three tasks: 1) enhance the campus core network by adding redundancy across 9 core locations with new routers and 10 Gbps links. The updates add the capacity and redundancy needed to offer reliable and high-performance network service to the whole campus; 2) establish a Science DMZ and the associated network performance monitoring framework, which enables researchers to obtain and share data with external hosts a high speed; and 3) establish a private LTE network dedicated to research and education over the 3.65 GHz CBRS spectrum. Five data-intensive science and education applications are prototyped to demonstrate the new CI capabilities and workflows enabled by this project.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.