The OneOklahoma Cyberinfrastructure Initiative: A Model for Multi-institutional Collaboration

The OneOklahoma Cyberinfrastructure Initiative (OneOCII) is a statewide all-inclusive advanced digital services collaboration that has been providing access to Cyberinfrastructure (CI) resources, as well as expertise and education, so far to over 100 institutions and organizations statewide (over 50 academic and almost 50 non-academic), including PhD-granting universities, primarily undergraduate institutions, community colleges, career techs and high schools, among them 10 Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs).The OneOklahoma Cyberinfrastructure Initiative (OneOCII) is a statewide all-inclusive advanced digital services collaboration that has been providing access to Cyberinfrastructure (CI) resources, as well as expertise and education, so far to over 100 institutions and organizations statewide (over 50 academic and almost 50 non-academic), including PhD-granting universities, primarily undergraduate institutions, community colleges, career techs and high schools, among them 10 Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs)

The OneOklahoma Cyberinfrastructure Initiative: A Model for Multi-institutional Collaboration

The OneOklahoma Cyberinfrastructure Initiative: A Model for Multi-institutional Collaboration A White Paper submitted by the OneOklahoma Cyberinfrastructure Initiative membership to the National Science Foundation Workshop on The Role of Regional Organizations in Improving Access to the National Computational Infrastructure The OneOklahoma Cyberinfrastructure Initiative (OneOCII) is a statewide all-inclusive advanced digital services collaboration that has been providing access to Cyberinfrastructure (CI) resources, as well as expertise and education, so far to over 100 institutions and organizations statewide (over 50 academic and almost 50 non-academic), including PhD-granting universities, primarily undergraduate institutions, community colleges, career techs and high schools, among them 10 Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs).The OneOklahoma Cyberinfrastructure Initiative OneOCIIN

Supercomputing: An Interview with Henry Neeman

Introduction: “Dr. Henry Neeman is the Director of the OU Supercomputing Center for Education & Research and an adjunct assistant professor in the School of Computer Science at the University of Oklahoma. . . . In addition to his own teaching and research, Dr. Neeman collaborates with dozens of research groups, applying High Performance Computing techniques in fields such as numerical weather prediction, bioinformatics and genomics, data mining, high energy physics, astronomy, nanotechnology, petroleum reservoir management, river basin modeling and engineering optimization. . . . Dr. Neeman’s research interests include high performance computing, scientific computing, parallel and distributed computing and computer science education” (Oklahoma Supercomputing Symposium 2011).N

On Fostering a Culture of Research Cyberinfrastructure Grant Proposals within a Community of Service Providers in an EPSCoR State

The OneOCII goals include: --Reach institutions outside the mainstream of advanced computing. --Serve every higher education institution in Oklahoma that has relevant curricula. --Educate Oklahomans about advanced computing. --Attract underrepresented populations and institution types into advanced computing.On Fostering a Culture of Research Cyberinfrastructure: Grant Proposals within a Community of Service Providers in an EPSCoR StateN

The Oklahoma PetaStore: A Business Model for Big Data on a Small Budget

1. INTRODUCTION In the era of Big Data, and especially as research data management requirements are tightening, research productivity in many disciplines can be highly sensitive to the availability of large scale, long term storage sufficient to contain the many and varied datasets produced and/or consumed by research teams. At the University of Oklahoma (OU), the OU Supercomputing Center for Education & Research (OSCER), a division of OU Information Technology (IT), has been providing large scale archival storage to a growing population of researchers. This has been accomplished via a resource named the Oklahoma PetaStore, funded by a National Science Foundation (NSF) Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) grant (see Acknowledgements) and consisting of disk and tape hardware, software and media. By adopting an unusual business model, OSCER has made very large scale, long term storage available to researchers, at pricing substantially lower than could be accomplished on their own, and with management provided by IT professionals rather than by research team members (for example, graduate students).ABSTRACT In the era of Big Data, research productivity can be highly sensitive to the availability of large scale, long term archival storage. Unfortunately, many mass storage systems are prohibitively expensive at scales appropriate for individual institutions rather than for national centers. Furthermore, a key issue is the set of circumstances under which researchers can, and are willing to, adopt a centralized technology that, in a pure cost recovery model, might be, or might appear to be, more expensive than what the research teams could build on their own. This paper examines a business model that addresses these concerns in a comprehensive manner, distributing the costs among a funding agency, the institution and the research teams, thereby reducing the challenges faced by each. Categories and Subject Descriptors B.3.2 [Design Styles]: Mass storage General Terms Design, Economics, Reliability Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for components of this work owned by others than the author(s) must be honored. Abstracting with credit is permitted. To copy otherwise, or republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee. Request permissions from [email protected]. XSEDE '14, July 13 - 18 2014, Atlanta, GA, USA Copyright is held by the owner/author(s). Publication rights licensed to ACM. ACM 978-1-4503-2893-7/14/07…$15.00. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2616498.2616548 Keywords Archival storage, mass store, business modelN

The Oklahoma Cyberinfrastructure Initiative

The Oklahoma Cyberinfrastructure Initiative (OCII) is a mechanism by which institutions in the state can share resources, both physical and human, to enable research and education statewide to utilize advanced computing technologies. OCII provides eight kinds of service: access to cyberinfrastructure; dissemination via an annual conference that has reached over 2500 participants in 11 years; education via a workshop series in person and via videoconferencing; faculty/staff development via summer week long workshops; outreach via a supercomputing talk suitable for non-technical audiences; proposal support in the form of both letters of commitment and direct collaboration; technology acquired for institutions or assisting those institutions in acquiring it; workforce development in the form of a mentorship program for Information Technology and Computer Science students statewide. To date, OCII has reached 50 academic and 47 non-academic institutions and organizations.University of Oklahoma OneNet Oklahoma State Universit

Institutional and Statewide Cyberinfrastructure: Dollars and Sense

What is Cyberinfrastructure? What is it used for? Why is it important to EPSCoR states like North Dakota? In this talk, we'll examine the Oklahoma Cyberinfrastructure Initiative as a case study, with lessons learned and recommendations for other EPSCoR states such as North Dakota