MSI-CIEC: MSI Cyberinfrastructure Empowerment Coalition and the TeraGrid

Paper written as a collaboration of the following institutions and presented at the 2006 TeraGrid Conference, Indianapolis, IN June 12-16: 1. University of Houston Downtown 2. NAFEO: National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education 3. SDSC: San Diego Supercomputer Center 4. Indiana University, Computer Science Department 5. AIHEC: The American Indiana Highter Education Consortium 6. HACU: Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universitie

MSI-CIEC: MSI Cyberinfrastructure Empowerment Coalition and the TeraGrid

We discuss some of the challenges and opportunities for Minority Serving Institutions (MSI) with the emergence of Cyberinfrastructure for science and engineering. We discuss the approach of MSI-CIEC (Cyberinfrastructure Empowerment Coalition) and pay particular attention to th