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OAC Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC) |
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| Initial Amendment Date: | August 12, 2015 |
| Latest Amendment Date: | August 12, 2015 |
| Award Number: | 1541310 |
| Award Instrument: | Standard Grant |
| Program Manager: |
Kevin Thompson
kthompso@nsf.gov (703)292-4220 OAC Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC) CSE Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering |
| Start Date: | January 1, 2016 |
| End Date: | December 31, 2017 (Estimated) |
| Total Intended Award Amount: | $498,443.00 |
| Total Awarded Amount to Date: | $498,443.00 |
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| Recipient Sponsored Research Office: |
701 S 20TH STREET BIRMINGHAM AL US 35294-0001 (205)934-5266 |
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| Primary Place of Performance: |
AL US 35294-0001 |
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| NSF Program(s): | Campus Cyberinfrastructure |
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| Award Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Fund Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Assistance Listing Number(s): | 47.070 |
ABSTRACT
In order to accommodate the ever-increasing demand for transferring large amounts of data generated by various instruments and computational simulations, the focus of this project is to develop a dedicated high-speed research network at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). This networking infrastructure provides researchers at UAB with 10 Gigabits per second (Gbps) connections from selected computers to the shared computational facility. It accelerates campus data transfers at least 10-fold and provides access to 10 Gbps data transfer rates for researchers downloading/uploading large datasets from external data repositories and national computational resources such as XSEDE and Open Science Grid through the campus Internet2 connection. Network performance is monitored using perfSONAR and high-speed data transfer is supported through the use of dedicated data transfer nodes. This infrastructure is also used to explore Software-Defined Networking (SDN) technologies.
This high-speed research network provides researchers and their graduate students with faster access to state-of-the-art cyberinfrastructure, thereby accelerating their research and improving their research productivity. Several important research activities in Biology, Physics, Material Science, Image Analysis, Cloud Computing, and Biomedical Engineering are enabled by this infrastructure and each project offers significant societal impacts in their respective areas of science and engineering. Underlying these efforts are UAB's strong commitments to a diverse student body and faculty, and long-term commitments by individual faculty involved in this project to training, mentoring, and recruiting women and underrepresented groups into science and engineering.
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In order to accommodate the ever-increasing demand for transferring large amounts of data generated by various instruments and computational simulations the focus of this effort was to develop a dedicated high-speed research network at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). This networking infrastructure provided a high-speed network for several key research groups who have large data transfer requirements between their individual research laboratories and the shared computational facility as well as a faster connection for bulk data transfer to/from data repositories outside UAB through the Internet2 connection by setting up a ScienceDMZ. This infrastructure provided a ten fold improvement in the network bandwidth on campus while providing a "friction-free" pathway to access external data repositories as well as computational resources such as XSEDE and Open Science Grid. Network performance was monitored using perfSonar and high-speed data transfer was supported through the use of dedicated data transfer nodes. This effort also improved the productivity of UAB researchers by reducing the time to transfer large volumes of data from external resources and promote collaboration among researchers from varied disciplines across the campus. The various project that utilized this infrastructure made significant impacts in their respective areas of research such as efficient analysis of next-generation sequencing data to support personalized medicine; novel biomarker for the diagnosis of Parkinson Disease; and novel techniques for neuroimaging and visualization.
Last Modified: 04/05/2018
Modified by: Purushotham Bangalore
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