Upgrade to UPR-RPC SCORE Network S06GM0812-30

描述（由申请人提供）：在UPR里约Piedras校区，自然科学学院的SCORE计划目前涉及11名教师调查员，5名研究助理和11名实验室技术人员在化学和生物学系的11个研究项目。 在最近提交的两份补充申请中，还有9个项目正在等待资金。 这些项目大多使用学院的计算机网络来运行设备，检索实验数据，与数据库通信，生成图像，以及通过互联网与合作者和同事进行通信。这个网络，它连接了四个建筑物，包括整个校园的学院的设施，安装在过去十年的上半年。由于这一技术的新发展，有必要对这些设施进行升级，以支持新的应用（即多媒体）并提高通信速度和分辨率（即桌面交换10/100 Mbps）。为此，学院设计了一个主项目计划，涉及大多数活动设备（即服务器，路由器，交换机等）的替代。以及线路基础设施的升级。购买必要的有源设备的资金可从院长办公室和NSF基础设施赠款。本申请书要求为4号楼（第二期，自然科学）的布线安装和认证提供必要的用品资金，该楼是最近建造的设施（1992年启用），但未列入1994年至1997年在其他三栋楼进行的布线项目。申请还包括通信专家的工资，以设置，配置和服务设备和连接要安装。该项目将得到充分的机构支持，这将大大增强网络能力，并为我们的生物医学研究人员访问和使用Internet II通信提供新的机会。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The SCORE Program at UPR-Rio Piedras Campus, College of Natural Sciences currently involves eleven faculty investigators, five research associates and eleven laboratory technicians in eleven research projects in the Departments of Chemistry and Biology. Nine more projects are pending funding in two supplemental applications submitted recently. Most of these projects use the College's Computer Network to run equipments, retrieve experimental data, communicate with databases and generate images as well as for communication with collaborators and colleagues through the Internet. This network, which connects the four buildings that comprise the College's facilities across Campus, was installed during the first half of the last decade. New developments in this technology make it necessary to upgrade these facilities in order to support new applications (i.e. multimedia) and enhance speed and resolution of communications (i.e. desktop-switched 10/100 Mbps). For this the College has designed a Master Project Plan involving the substitution of most of the active equipment (i.e. servers, routers, switches, etc.) and the upgrade of wiring infrastructure. Funds for the purchase of the necessary active equipment are available from the Dean's office and an NSF infrastructure grant. The present application requests the supplies funds necessary for wiring installation and certification of Building 4 (Phase II, Natural Sciences) which is the most recently built facility (inaugurated in 1992) but which was not included in the previous wiring project carried on in the other three buildings from 1994 to 1997. Application also includes the salary of a Communications Specialist to set up, configure and service equipment and connections to be installed. Full institutional support is available for this project which will result in substantial enhancement of network capabilities and new opportunities for our biomedical investigators to access and use Internet II communications.