CC* Network Design and Implementation for Small Institutions: The Tommie Science Network- A dedicated research network for the University of St. Thomas

Information

• NSF Award
• 1827151

Owner

• ST. THOMAS UNIVERSITY

• Award Id

  1827151

• Award Effective Date

  7/1/2018 - 6 years ago

• Award Expiration Date

  6/30/2020 - 4 years ago

• Award Amount

  $ 390,671.00

• Award Instrument

  Standard Grant

The University of St. Thomas, in conjunction with the University of Minnesota's Gopher Science Network Team, is building the Tommie Science Network, a dedicated research network that transforms the campus research environment by providing a reliable and secure high-speed research network capable of achieving sustained transmission rates of up to 100 Gigabits per second (Gbps) between campus research locations and Internet2 (I2). This project creates efficiencies in end-to-end workflows between existing instrumentation facilities and research centers, centralized computing and data storage facilities, and partner institutions. It significantly increases bandwidth available to researchers, allowing the St. Thomas community to fully participate in collaborative, global research activity, and provides a world-class working environment for professors and students to practice distributed research and collaboration techniques to learn skills they will use in their future employment.<br/><br/>The Tommie Science Network connects Owens Science Hall, O'Shaughnessy Science Hall and the St. Thomas E-learning and Research center (STELAR) via high-speed access layer switches linked to the network core at 80Gbps. Traffic on the Tommie Science Network then bypasses the firewall to connect directly to I2 at 100Gbps via the Northern Lights Gigapop. Laboratories and research locations in the science halls and STELAR are connected at 10Gbps to the access layer switches. Globus File Transfer Protocol is used to allow secure, reliable high-speed transfers between the science buildings, the DMZ, and I2. PerfSonar is used to monitor performance between the science buildings and the and Science Demilitarized Zone (Science DMZ) as well as from the DMZ to Internet2. The St. Thomas networking staff is responsible for ongoing operations.<br/><br/>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.

• Program Officer

  Kevin L. Thompson

• Min Amd Letter Date

  6/29/2018 - 6 years ago

• Max Amd Letter Date

  6/29/2018 - 6 years ago

• ARRA Amount

• Name

  University of St. Thomas

• City

  St. Paul

• State

  MN

• Country

  United States

• Address

  2115 Summit Avenue

• Postal Code

  551051096

• Phone Number

  6519626038

• First Name

  Chih

• Last Name

  Lai

• Email Address

  clai@stthomas.edu

• Start Date

  6/29/2018 12:00:00 AM

• First Name

  Eric

• Last Name

  Tornoe

• Email Address

  ejtornoe@stthomas.edu

• Start Date

  6/29/2018 12:00:00 AM

• First Name

  Edmund

• Last Name

  Clark

• Email Address

  edmund.clark@stthomas.edu

• Start Date

  6/29/2018 12:00:00 AM

• First Name

  William

• Last Name

  Bear

• Email Address

  william.bear@stthomas.edu

• Start Date

  6/29/2018 12:00:00 AM

• First Name

  Kemal

• Last Name

  Badur

• Email Address

  kemal@umn.edu

• Start Date

  6/29/2018 12:00:00 AM

• Text

  Campus Cyberinfrastrc (CC-NIE)

• Code

  8080