CC* Networking Infrastructure: Building a Scalable and Polymorphic Cyberinfrastructure for Diverse Research and Education Needs at Illinois State University

CC* 网络基础设施：为伊利诺伊州立大学的多样化研究和教育需求构建可扩展和多态的网络基础设施

• 批准号: 2346712
• 负责人: Yongning Tang
• 金额: $ 61.16万
• 依托单位: Board of Trustees of Illinois State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-05-01 至 2026-04-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2346712&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CC; Networking; Infrastructure; Building; Scalable

Faculty researchers and networking experts at Illinois State University are teaming up to create an advanced cyberinfrastructure to meet the evolving and diverse research and educational demands of the campus. This cyberinfrastructure boosts the campus research network to a full 100G capacity, integrates a 100G Science DMZ for better external connections, and introduces a 100G Software Defined Networking (SDN) enabled testbed for creative research opportunities. This enhancement dramatically improves digital interaction among researchers, scientific instruments, visualization stations, high-performance computing (HPC) resources, and external collaborators, elevating research speed and enabling methodologies previously out of reach. For example, large environmental and hydrology data collected by unmanned aircrafts can now be managed through the SDN, quickly processed by HPC clusters, and shared with external collaborators for immediate machine-learning analysis. This infrastructure also benefits students, particularly those from underrepresented groups and first-generation college attendees, by providing them with hands-on experience with top-tier technology in their studies and research projects. The cyberinfrastructure's modular design caters to varied research and educational requirements. The Science DMZ module, featuring a high-performance switch and a cutting-edge data transfer node, isolates research data traffic from general university operations. The on-campus research network employs a spine-leaf architecture for its scalability and reliability, consisting of two interconnected spines (64x100GbE) using 100Gb links, located in the HPC and another campus data center. The SDN-based testbed adopts a similar spine-leaf architecture with a single Spine for now, prized for its adaptability and equipped with hybrid SDN switches that have built-in controllers for innovative research exploration. Performance monitoring and adjustments are carried out with PerfSonar nodes, in a collaborative effort between researchers and network architects to ensure the cyberinfrastructure's optimal performance.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.

伊利诺伊州立大学的教师研究人员和网络专家正在联合创建高级网络基础设施，以满足校园的不断发展，多样化的研究和教育要求。这种网络基础设施使校园研究网络提高了100克的全部容量，整合了100克科学DMZ，以获得更好的外部连接，并引入了100克软件定义的网络（SDN）启用了启用创意研究机会的测试。这种增强大大改善了研究人员，科学仪器，可视化站，高性能计算（HPC）资源和外部合作者之间的数字交互，从而提高了研究速度和启用以前无法实现的方法。例如，现在可以通过SDN来管理无人飞机收集的大型环境和水文学数据，由HPC群集迅速处理，并与外部合作者共享，以立即进行机器学习分析。这些基础设施还使学生，尤其是来自代表性不足的团体和第一代大学与会者的学生，通过为他们的研究和研究项目提供了顶级技术的动手经验，从而使他们提供了动手经验。网络基础设施的模块化设计符合各种研究和教育要求。科学DMZ模块具有高性能开关和尖端的数据传输节点，将研究数据流量与普通大学运营分离。校园研究网络采用脊柱叶片结构的可伸缩性和可靠性，由两个互连的刺（64x100GBE）组成，该棘突（64x100GBE）使用位于HPC和另一个校园数据中心的100GB链接。基于SDN的测试床目前采用了类似的脊柱叶片结构，以其适应性而珍贵，并配备了具有内置控制器的混合SDN开关，可用于创新研究探索。在研究人员和网络建筑师之间的合作努力中，通过Perfsonar节点进行了性能监控和调整，以确保Cyber​​infrasture的最佳绩效。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准来通过评估来通过评估来支持的。