Connection to NSF's vBNS Network: A Proposal submitted by University of Puerto Rico Research Institutions and the National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center

连接 NSF 的 vBNS 网络：波多黎各大学研究机构和国家天文学和电离层中心提交的提案

• 批准号: 9976006
• 负责人: Guy Cormier
• 金额: $ 140万
• 依托单位: University of Puerto Rico
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1999
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1999-09-01 至 2003-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9976006&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Connection; NSF; vBNS; Network; Proposal

This high performance connections award provides support for three research institutions and an NSF astronomy facility on the Island of Puerto Rico to establish a very high performance connection to a gigapop on the mainland (likely in Florida). The involved institutions include three major research campuses of the University of Puerto Rico (Rio Piedras, Medical Sciences, and Mayaguez) and the National Astronomy and Ionospher Center at Arecibo. Included in the engineering plans is an aggregation point for island connectivity and a high performance link from that aggregation point to the mainland. Involvement of the Arecibo facility represents significant opportunity for the entire national astronomy community to gain remote access to an important telescopic resource. The addition of the University of Puerto Rico to the community of universities involved in NGI, Internet2, and advanced high performance networking brings into play important research activities in the biological sciences, medicine, geophysical sciences, physics, astronomy, and other fields. Of special note is the Luquillo Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) project. Many collaborative relationships with other U.S. universities are expected to be enhanced by this network access.

这项高性能连接奖为波多黎各岛上的三个研究机构和NSF天文学设施提供了支持，以建立与大陆上吉格帕普（可能在佛罗里达州）的Gigapop建立非常高性能的联系。所涉及的机构包括波多黎各大学（里约皮埃拉斯，医学科学和玛雅格斯）的三个主要研究校园以及Arecibo的国家天文学和Ionospher中心。工程计划中包括的是岛屿连接的聚合点，以及从该聚合点到大陆的高性能联系。 Arecibo设施的参与为整个国家天文学界提供了重要的机会，可以远程访问重要的望远镜资源。在NGI，Internet2和高级高性能网络中，波多黎各大学的加入将在生物科学，医学，地球物理科学，物理，天文学和其他领域的重要研究活动中加入了重要的研究活动。特别值得注意的是Luquillo的长期生态研究（LTER）项目。预计该网络访问将增强与其他美国大学的许多合作关系。