Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Research and Education Facilitators (ACI-REFs)
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Session Abstract
This session will describe current and future initiatives of the "Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Research and Education Facilitators (ACI-REFs)" program, a consortium that is forging a nationwide alliance of educators to empower local campus researchers to be more effective users of advanced cyberinfrastructure (ACI). The project engages with the “long tail” of ACI users by building a coordinated network of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Research and Education Facilitators, campus champions whose mission is to leverage existing resources and “make a difference” in supporting their local campus researchers. By aggregating expertise and resources, consortium members are creating distributed technical and support operations that provide researchers with methods to leverage much larger and robust sets of resources. Partnering with Internet2, we use the Innovation Platform to connect campuses and allow high performance interconnections through Science DMZs that can be built and broken down in ad-hoc ways using SDN. Together with the project’s community building characteristics, these activities are a model for “team science” that can be extended and replicated nationally. This project will be transformative for campus IT. It will enable science and education deployments that are not possible today and create a community of practitioners that shares resources, experience, and expertise to facilitate new knowledge and discovery.
Speakers
Speaker James Bottum Clemson University
Speaker Steve Corbató University of Utah
Speaker Gwen Jacobs University of Hawaii
Speaker Miron Livny University of Wisconsin-Madison
Speaker James Von Oehsen Clemson University
Speaker James Pepin Clemson University
Presentation Media
Speaker James Bottum Clemson University
Speaker James Von Oehsen Clemson University
Advanced Cyberinfrastructure – Research and Educational Facilitation: Campus-Based Computational Research Support
Speaker James Bottum Clemson University
Primary track Innovative Partnerships, Uses and Applications
Secondary tracks National/Regional Collaboration Arts and Humanities Research Partnership Development and Engagement Innovative Partnerships, Uses and Applications Research Strategies Cloud Services Network Planning and Engineering Cyberinfrastructure
Session Media
Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Research and Education Facilitators (ACI-REFs)
Advanced Cyberinfrastructure - Research and Education Facilitators (ACI-REFs)