Enabling MSIs to be CI Providers

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Enabling MSIs to be CI Providers

• John Towns
• ltjtowns_at_ncsa.uiuc.edugt
• Director, Persistent Infrastructure Directorate
• National Center for Supercomputing Applications
  (NCSA)
• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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MSI Summit and Workshop

• As a leading center providing CI support to the
  science and engineering research community, NCSA
  has considerable expertise on how to provide CI
  resources to the research community. This
  expertise can be shared to enable MSIs to not
  only use CI resources but to also become fully
  engaged in CI by being providers of those
  resources.
• MSI CI Provider Summit
• assess individual MSI CI needs and capabilities
  to better understand the issues and needs of
  deploying CI in the MSI community
• develop a mechanism to assist MSIs in developing
  strategic plans for acquiring and deploying CI
  resources and tools
• identify training requirements to enable MSI
  staff to acquire, operate and support users of CI
  resources and tool
• MSI CI Provider Workshop
• conduct weeklong institute at NCSA in August 2006
• provide training on topics identified at the
  Summit