Framing the Cyberinfrastructure Discussion on your Campus

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Framing the Cyberinfrastructure Discussion on
your Campus

• Jeff Bullington, Univ Kansas
• Guy Almes, Texas AM Univ
• 21 February 2008

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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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Brief Definition

• A holistic integration of elements such as
• High-performance computing
• Scalable secure sharable data storage
• Networking
• Visualization, etc.
• Dont forget the human aspect
• Skilled staff
• Skilled users

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• 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

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• 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?id644l
  inkidentifieriditemid644

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• 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

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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?