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Workshop Funding and Research Computing: Best Practices and Barriers

Join us on May 12, 2010, for a workshop exploring what works, best practices, and barriers/enablers in research computing funding. The agenda covers grants jargon, funding infrastructure, staff, storage lifecycle, and more. Gain insights into grants principles, federal rules, and cost determination. Learn about Campus Data Center Models and discover survey results on funding infrastructure in research data centers.

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Workshop Funding and Research Computing: Best Practices and Barriers

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  1. CSG Short WorkshopFunding Research Computing May 12, 2010

  2. Goals • What works? • What are best practices? • What are barriers or enablers for best practices?

  3. Agenda • Grants Jargon 101 - Alan • Funding Infrastructure, Primarily Data Centers - Alan • Funding Servers and Storage – Curt • 10:30 break • Funding Staff - Greg • Funding the Storage and Archival Life Cycle – Serge & Raj • Summary and Reports from Related Initiatives - Raj

  4. Grants Jargon 1001 (may be Columbia specific) • A-21 – Principles for Determining Costs Applicable to Grants, Contracts, and Other Agreements with Educational Institutions. • Federal OMB rules that apply to sponsored projects. • Allowed and Unallowed Costs • Direct Costs • Personnel, Equipment, Supplies, Travel, Consultants, Tuition, central computer charges, core facility charges, etc. • Indirect Costs (IC) a/k/a Facilities and Administrative (F&A) • The “overhead” such as heat, administration, etc. • Modified Total Direct Costs (MTDC) are Total Direct Costs minus equipment, participant support, GRA tuition, alteration or renovation, routine & ancillary patient costs, subcontracts > $25k • Indirect Cost Rate (ICR) is negotiated with HHS (e.g. 61%) • IC = MTDC * ICR is added to the project budget • Example: (Direct cost $1M - $500K equipment) * ICR = $1.305M total

  5. Campus Data Center Models • Institutional core research facility • Departmental closet clusters • Shared data centers between administration and research • Multi-institution facilities (e.g. RENCI) • Cloud • Funding spans the gamut from fully institutionally supported to grant-funded.

  6. Funding infrastructure (data centers): pre-workshop survey results • 19 of 22 respondents have centrally run research data centers, mostly (15 counts) centrally funded (9 counts of using charge back, 3 counts of grant funding) • 18 of 22 respondents have departmentally run research data centers, mostly (14 counts) departmentally funded (3 counts of using charge back, 4 counts of grant funding) • 14/22 respondents have inventoried their research data centers • 10/21 respondents have gathered systematic data on research computing needs

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