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手创建先进的网络基础设施，以满足校园不断变化和多样化的研究和教育需求。该网络基础设施将校园研究网络提升至完整的 100G 容量，集成了 100G 科学 DMZ 以实现更好的外部连接，并引入了支持 100G 软件定义网络 (SDN) 的测试台以提供创造性研究机会。这一增强功能极大地改善了研究人员、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并实现了以前无法实现的方法。例如，无人机收集的大量环境和水文数据现在可以通过SDN进行管理，由HPC集群快速处理，并与外部合作者共享以进行即时机器学习分析。该基础设施还为学生，特别是那些来自弱势群体和第一代大学生的学生带来好处，为他们提供学习和研究项目中顶级技术的实践经验。网络基础设施的模块化设计可满足不同的研究和教育需求。 Science DMZ 模块具有高性能交换机和尖端数据传输节点，可将研究数据流量与一般大学运营隔离。校园研究网络采用主干-叶子架构，以实现可扩展性和可靠性，由两个使用 100Gb 链路的互连主干 (64x100GbE) 组成，位于 HPC 和另一个校园数据中心。基于SDN的测试床目前采用类似的单一Spine的spine-leaf架构，因其适应性而备受赞誉，并配备了内置控制器的混合SDN交换机，用于创新研究探索。通过研究人员和网络架构师之间的协作，通过 PerfSonar 节点进行性能监控和调整，以确保网络基础设施的最佳性能。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响进行评估，被认为值得支持审查标准。