The Campus Cyberinfrastructure Working Group

The Campus Cyberinfrastructure The Campus Cyberinfrastructure Working GroupWorking Group

Patrick Dreher

Project Director, IT Strategic Planning and Resource Coordination Initiatives

MIT (until 7/13)

Director, Advanced Computing Infrastructure and SystemsRenaissance Computing Institute (after 7/16)

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Educause Cyberinfrastructure SummitDenver, July 10-11, 2007

The Campus Cyberinfrastructure Working GroupPatrick Dreher

OutlineOutline

Overview of the Campus Cyberinfrastructure (CCI) Working Group

Current activities Future directions

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Motivation for CCIMotivation for CCI

Cyberinfrastructure (CI) is a rapidly growing component of information technology throughout industry, government and academia

Its reach spans a broad spectrum of IT in each sector with many facets and perspectives

Generates a powerful momentum that drives new technologies and methodologies across user communities

These developments are generating new results with profound implications for changing whole disciplines, educational initiatives, and research methodologies

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Campus Cyberinfrastructure Working Campus Cyberinfrastructure Working GroupGroup

Educause recognized these trends in the higher education user community

In 2006 the Campus Cyberinfrastructure (CCI) Working Group was organized with a mission to help both

- Educational institutions develop institutional strategies and plan their resource deployment in this emerging and evolving technological landscape- Users harness and optimize the power and capabilities of these new integrated IT tools and systems for educational and research applications in higher education.

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CCI Organizational StructureCCI Organizational Structure

Structure– Co-chairs– Steering Committee– Working Group– Topical Focus Groups– Sponsorship of

• Workshops• Conferences• White papers and documents on these topics• Interactions with federal funding agencies and other sponsors

CCI web page http://www.educause.edu/CampusCyberinfrastructure%28CCI%29WorkingGroup/10288

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CCI LeadershipCCI Leadership

– 2 Co-chairs• Guy Almes• Patrick Dreher

– Steering Committee• Jim Bottum• Sue Fratkin• Bonnie Neas• Jim Pepin

– Focus Group Chairs• Klara Jelinkova• Paul Killey

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Major CCI ActivitiesMajor CCI Activities

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Snowmass ’06 WorkshopSnowmass ’06 Workshop

In the summer of 2006, the NSF sponsored a workshop for CCI to identify and develop strategies for addressing the critical issues of campus cyberinfrastructure (CI)

CCI Workshop held at Snowmass CO in August 2006

Focus spectrum of CI through the lens of higher education

Relevant set of engines and drivers

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Engines/Drivers of Campus Engines/Drivers of Campus Cyberinfrastructure*Cyberinfrastructure*

Campus Communities and Constituencies: Enabler in partnerships with researchers, not as an IT service provider

Computing and Communications: Opportunities, synergies (grids), economies of scale for high performance computing, research networks and enhanced support facilities

Information Management: Various aspects of data creation, storage, handling, retrieval, distribution interpretation, security, policies on research data, including partnerships and opportunities with libraries and repositories

Virtual communities:Opportunities associated with scholars partnering with IT organizations to create the software environments that facilitate discovery among distributed communities

Partnership Strategies:Development of proposals and relationships that enhance the partnership among researchers, universities, and funding organizations to enhance the nation’s cyberinfrastructure (local, state, federal, international, private)

*CCI August 2006 Snowmass Workshop

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Focused Activity from the Focused Activity from the Snowmass ’06 WorkshopSnowmass ’06 Workshop

Not practical for the working group to address all five drivers of CI simultaneously

Two Focus Groups established

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CCI Focus GroupsCCI Focus Groups

Defining Cyberinfrastructure for Campus Leaders – Goal - develop a series of tools that will help CIOs educate

campus administrators, faculty and researchers on the concept of why CI is important to a higher education institution.

Klara Jelinkova, Duke University

Business Models for Data Centers – Goal – summarize the challenges and opportunities focused on

developing and supporting data centers on campusPaul Killey, University of Michigan Ann-Arbor

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Future Directions and OutreachFuture Directions and Outreach

CI is here – now – on each of your campuses and is growing rapidly

How CI is addressed on your campus will be a key determining factor as to how well your faculty will be able to take full advantage and participate in many new projects and collaborations

Opportunity at this Cyberinfrastructure Summit – Forum for senior IT leaders, Educause, and the CCI Group to

focus on this issue, share information, experiences, and ideas– Interface with CCI and work with you to identify and shape

solutions for the future

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