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March 2016 progress report
Cyberinfrastructure is broadly defined as the human and technological support framework for advanced data acquisition, data storage, data management, data integration, data mining, data visualization, data curation and other computing and information processing services within the research environment. Research Computing has been growing to meet the needs of researchers on campus with a number of improvements, new services, and a new direction. Highlights of 2015 include the following: More than one petabyte of newly installed General Purpose Research Storage has been installed on campus to address the urgent need for research data storage. ; The High Performance Computing (HPC) cluster has been upgraded with more capacity and an updated architecture, and user training has been expanded. ; MU faculty has helped guide the introduction of a number of grant-friendly services to help researchers gain computing capacity without having to worry about managing the underlying infrastructure. ; A next generation 100-Gigabit Software Defined Networking (SDN) high-speed network has been installed to address the future needs of researchers and their need to access off-campus resources and remote collaboration. Through all these changes, and with the guidance of MU's Cyberinfrastructure Council, the Division of IT is striving to better support MU researchers with their computational needs
Trusted CI Experiences in Cybersecurity and Service to Open Science
This article describes experiences and lessons learned from the Trusted CI
project, funded by the US National Science Foundation to serve the community as
the NSF Cybersecurity Center of Excellence. Trusted CI is an effort to address
cybersecurity for the open science community through a single organization that
provides leadership, training, consulting, and knowledge to that community. The
article describes the experiences and lessons learned of Trusted CI regarding
both cybersecurity for open science and managing the process of providing
centralized services to a broad and diverse community.Comment: 8 pages, PEARC '19: Practice and Experience in Advanced Research
Computing, July 28-August 1, 2019, Chicago, IL, US
Architecting the cyberinfrastructure for National Science Foundation Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI)
The NSF Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) is a networked ocean
research observatory with arrays of instrumented water column moorings and
buoys, profilers, gliders and autonomous underwater vehicles (AUV) within different
open ocean and coastal regions. OOI infrastructure also includes a cabled
array of instrumented seafloor platforms and water column moorings on the
Juan de Fuca tectonic plate. This networked system of instruments, moored and
mobile platforms, and arrays will provide ocean scientists, educators and the
public the means to collect sustained, time-series data sets that will enable examination
of complex, interlinked physical, chemical, biological, and geological
processes operating throughout the coastal regions and open ocean. The seven
arrays built and deployed during construction support the core set of OOI multidisciplinary
scientific instruments that are integrated into a networked software
system that will process, distribute, and store all acquired data. The OOI
has been built with an expectation of operation for 25 years.Peer Reviewe
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Coordinative Entities: Forms of Organizing in Data Intensive Science
Scientific collaboration is a long-standing subject of CSCW scholarship that typically focuses on the development and use of computing systems to facilitate research. The research presented in this article investigates the sociality of science by identifying and describing particular, common forms of organizing that researchers in four different scientific realms employ to conduct work in both local contexts and as part of distributed, global projects. This paper introduces five prototypical forms of organizing we categorize as coordinative entities: the Principal Group, Intermittent Exchange, Sustained Aggregation, Federation, and Facility Organization. Coordinative entities as a categorization help specify, articulate, compare, and trace overlapping and evolving arrangements scientists use to facilitate data intensive research. We use this typology to unpack complexities of data intensive scientific collaboration in four cases, showing how scientists invoke different coordinative entities across three types of research activities: data collection, processing, and analysis. Our contribution scrutinizes the sociality of scientific work to illustrate how these actors engage in relational work within and among diverse, dispersed forms of organizing across project, funding, and disciplinary boundaries
A Review of the Open Educational Resources (OER) Movement: Achievements, Challenges, and New Opportunities
Examines the state of the foundation's efforts to improve educational opportunities worldwide through universal access to and use of high-quality academic content
Survey and Analysis of Production Distributed Computing Infrastructures
This report has two objectives. First, we describe a set of the production
distributed infrastructures currently available, so that the reader has a basic
understanding of them. This includes explaining why each infrastructure was
created and made available and how it has succeeded and failed. The set is not
complete, but we believe it is representative.
Second, we describe the infrastructures in terms of their use, which is a
combination of how they were designed to be used and how users have found ways
to use them. Applications are often designed and created with specific
infrastructures in mind, with both an appreciation of the existing capabilities
provided by those infrastructures and an anticipation of their future
capabilities. Here, the infrastructures we discuss were often designed and
created with specific applications in mind, or at least specific types of
applications. The reader should understand how the interplay between the
infrastructure providers and the users leads to such usages, which we call
usage modalities. These usage modalities are really abstractions that exist
between the infrastructures and the applications; they influence the
infrastructures by representing the applications, and they influence the ap-
plications by representing the infrastructures
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