EDUCAUSE | Presented at EDUCAUSE Annual Conferences and High-Performance Computing

CyberInfrastructure: What, Why, How, and Who's Already Doing It

drupal — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 13:04:28 -0600

Modern cyberinfrastructure (CI) creates a “distributed computer” with resources dispersed in diverse geographic and administrative domains and the network providing the “backplane” for this computer. This session will present major players in research and education CI and will offer an overview of the CI Days program under way to assist campuses in planning and implementing CI.

The CI Days program is being developed in coordination with EDUCAUSE, Internet2, National LambdaRail (NLR), the National Science Foundation (NSF), and the Department of Energy (DOE). The NSF’s TeraGrid and the DOE’s Open Science Grid build on advanced networking to provide leading-edge collaborative computing infrastructure, Internet2 and NLR provide the enhanced network backplane infrastructure, and the NSF’s International Research Network Connections program offers international extensions. Internet2 also develops middleware tools to enable end users to reliably access CI resources, and EDUCAUSE addresses policy and funding issues involved with implementing and operating CI.

Research Mission Support

drupal — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 16:56:43 -0500

This meeting will provide a forum for discussing IT support for institutional research missions. The two broad categories of concern include support for research administration and IT support for research activities. Research administration support involves pre- and post-award support, interaction with federal grant systems, regulatory compliance, and intellectual property management. Supporting research activities includes centralized versus decentralized approaches, high-performance computing, advanced networking, and informatics, as well as enabling multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, and interinstitutional work.

Pioneering New Territory and Technologies

drupal — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 15:56:42 -0500

Come and hear the outcomes of the Evolving Technologies Committee's research and take part in the debate. This group will share their vision on how to reach the full potential as pioneers in the use of evolving technologies. Topics include but are not limited to podcasting, computer-mediated research, learning management systems, and wireless.

This session is dedicated to the memory of Howard J. Strauss, former Manager of Academic Outreach, Princeton University, recipient of the 2006 EDUCAUSE Leadership Award for his long tradition of visionary, entertaining, and iconoclastic presentations which challenged his listeners to examine their assumptions about new technologies.

Centralize Research Computing to Drive Innovation, Really

drupal — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 12:34:31 -0600

Does the commoditization of computation and storage favor centralized or decentralized approaches to research computing? This presentation argues that the cyberinfrastructure for research is best provisioned as a leveraged central service. It addresses the political, financial, technical, and strategic requirements for developing a shared cyberinfrastructure to fuel innovation and growth.