| NSF Org: |
OAC Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC) |
| Recipient: |
|
| Initial Amendment Date: | July 12, 2019 |
| Latest Amendment Date: | January 30, 2020 |
| Award Number: | 1925678 |
| 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: | July 15, 2019 |
| End Date: | June 30, 2023 (Estimated) |
| Total Intended Award Amount: | $383,734.00 |
| Total Awarded Amount to Date: | $383,734.00 |
| Funds Obligated to Date: |
|
| History of Investigator: |
|
| Recipient Sponsored Research Office: |
1500 HORNING RD KENT OH US 44242-0001 (330)672-2070 |
| Sponsor Congressional District: |
|
| Primary Place of Performance: |
OH US 44242-0001 |
| Primary Place of
Performance Congressional District: |
|
| Unique Entity Identifier (UEI): |
|
| Parent UEI: |
|
| NSF Program(s): | Campus Cyberinfrastructure |
| Primary Program Source: |
|
| Program Reference Code(s): | |
| Program Element Code(s): |
|
| Award Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Fund Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Assistance Listing Number(s): | 47.070 |
ABSTRACT
This project from Kent State University (KSU) designs a ScienceDMZ sharable by the ten KSU campuses spread across northeastern Ohio aligned with NSF's goal of to innovate more scalable approaches to expand advance cyber infrastructure for massive data drive science. A ScienceDMZ at KSU's main campus connects to OARnet's optical exchange to have 100 Gbps unimpeded transfer rate capacity. KSU and OARNet teams to build a virtual DMZ perimeter over a highly-responsive regional WAN allowing researchers from bandwidth constrained regional campuses to access the cyber-facility with uniform access. IPv6, and shared network innovations like PerfSONAR and InCommons are employed.
The ScienceDMZ leverages a broad set of compelling big-data projects. The project launches outdoor ultra-high speed wireless access infrastructure in campuses connected to the ScienceDMZ to facilitate big-data-driven dense sensor and IoT research projects. This project is unique in the sense that a shared regional science DMZ is leveraged across ten campuses throughout north-eastern Ohio. The region of the Kent's allied campuses is the Rust Belt of America. The project brings the world of data-driven STEM research closer to this mass of students, a large percentage of whom are Pell-eligible and/or first-generation college students.
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.
PROJECT OUTCOMES REPORT
Disclaimer
This Project Outcomes Report for the General Public is displayed verbatim as submitted by the Principal Investigator (PI) for this award. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this Report are those of the PI and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation; NSF has not approved or endorsed its content.
This project has successfully designed and implemented a ScienceDMZ at Kent State and a 100 Gbps Data Transfer Network (DTN) node in it. With optical connectivity established via our research and education network OARNET, the DTN provides Globus and SCP-assisted unimpeded data transfer to researchers at a very high speed of up to 100 Gbps. The facility is sharable by the ten KSU campuses spread across northeastern Ohio, aligned with NSF's goal to innovate more scalable approaches to expand advanced cyberinfrastructure for massive data drive science. KSU and OARNet teams built a virtual DMZ perimeter over a responsive regional WAN, allowing researchers from bandwidth-constrained regional campuses to access the cyber facility with uniform user experience. IPv6 and shared network innovations like PerfSONAR and InCommons are employed. The project has also launched an outdoor ultra-high-speed wireless access infrastructure to facilitate big-data-driven dense sensor, multi-robot, and IoT research.
The project is now considered a milestone for research cyberinfrastructure (RC) at Kent, significantly changing our campus thinking on IT practice and its reengineering. There was no central computing cluster/data center for research. This project launched the first research computing for Kent IS. KSU's information systems division had 150+ engineers and 200+ student interns. Through this project, these current and future campus professionals are trained on the emerging paradigm of research computing. Specific teams received further hands-on experience in a sci's design, deployment, operation.DMZ and DTN node. The project also engaged extensively undergraduate and graduate students, including an underrepresented female, all of whom received unique hands-on research experience in sci.DMZ, DTN, science with large data, and global collaborative research.
The project resulted in technical reports and drafts for research papers. The technical reports are intended to provide roadmap for future institutions planning to build scienceDMZ and join the DTN as a node. The DTN node and the ScienceDMZ will continue to leverage a broad set of compelling big-data projects. This project is unique because a shared regional scienceDMZ is leveraged across ten campuses throughout northeastern Ohio. The region of Kent's allied campuses is the Rust Belt of America. The project brings the world of data-driven STEM research closer to this mass of students, a large percentage of whom are Pell-eligible and/or first-generation college students. This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impact review criteria.
Last Modified: 12/31/2023
Modified by: Javed I Khan
Please report errors in award information by writing to: awardsearch@nsf.gov.
