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Framing the Cyberinfrastructure Discussion on your Campus. Jeff Bullington, Univ Kansas Guy Almes, Texas A&M Univ 21 February 2008. Agenda. Brief Definition What are the Campus Drivers? Why does it have Strategic Importance? How does it relate to the needs of your Scholars / Researchers?.
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Framing the Cyberinfrastructure Discussion on your Campus Jeff Bullington, Univ Kansas Guy Almes, Texas A&M Univ 21 February 2008
Agenda Brief Definition What are the Campus Drivers? Why does it have Strategic Importance? How does it relate to the needs of your Scholars / Researchers?
Brief Definition • A holistic integration of elements such as: • High-performance computing • Scalable secure sharable data storage • Networking • Visualization, etc. • Don’t forget the human aspect: • Skilled staff • Skilled users
Components of Cyberinfrastructure(from NSF Vision Document, 2007) • High Performance Computing • Data, Data Analysis, and Visualization • Virtual Organizations for Distributed Communities • Learning and Workforce Development • http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2007/nsf0728/index.jsp
American Council on Learned Societies (ACLS) on Cyberinfrastructure: • “Cyberinfrastructure” is more than just hardware and software, more than bigger computer boxes and wider pipes and wires connecting them… These environments will be built, and ACLS feels it is important for the humanities and social sciences to participate in their design and construction. • “Our Cultural Commonwealth” – ACLS Report on CI • http://www.acls.org/programs/Default.aspx?id=644&linkidentifier=id&itemid=644
E-Science or E-Research • The terminology used for concept in UK, EU, Australia, New Zealand • http://www.nesc.ac.uk/documents/OSI/index.html • E-Scholarship an emerging terminology
Themes • Success stories: What seems to work? • Themes of frustration: What seems to be hard? • How does the campus reality compare with the national reality?