Panel: Shared Resources in the

Cyberinfrastructure Environment

Dana Brunson

XSEDE Campus Engagement co-manager

Asst. VP for Research Cyberinfrastructure

Director, High Performance Computing Center

Oklahoma State University

dana.brunson@okstate.edu

Oklahoma State University Research Cyberinfrastructure:

• OK State: 100G at border, multiple 10G connections to research computing (including DTNs), deploying 100G FIONA

• How we got there - state & regional collaboration:– 2008: NSF EPSCoR RII Track 1: $15M, OCII formed via MOU

– 2010: NSF EPSCoR RII C2 (OU+OSU+TU+LU+Noble+OneNet): $1.17M

– 2013: NSF EPSCoR RII Track 1: $20M, OneOCII (expanded OCII)

– 2013: NSF CC-NIE “OFFN” (OU+OSU+LU+OII+UCO+OneNet): $500K

– 2014: NSF CC*IIE CI Engineer (OU): $400K

– 2014: NSF CC*IIE (OneNet+GPN): $130K

– 2017: NSF CC* “MORe OFFN” (RSU, SE, SWOSU, NSU): $334K

• 2018: GPN-RP Collaboration – FIONAs + Community of networking and research computing people

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Campus Champions

Research computing community facilitating computing-

and data-intensive research and education

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• Champions help their

local researchers and

educators find and use

the advanced digital

services that best meet

their needs; and,

• Champions share CI

challenges and

solutionsWith support from:

https://www.xsede.org/web/site/community-engagement/campus-champions

CaRCC: Campus Research Computing Consortium

Continuing working groups

• Building Community: the People

Network

– co-chairs: Dana Brunson, Lauren Michael

• CI Professionalization

– co-chairs: Patrick Schmitz, Scott Yockel

• Stakeholders and Value Proposition

– co-chairs: Andy Sherman, Barr von Oehsen

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New working groups

• Future of research computing and data

– co-chairs: Jackie Milhans, Gwen Jacobs

• Ecosystem workshop planning

– co-chairs: Dana Brunson, Gail Krovitz

• Logistics, Communications, and Common Infrastructure for CaRCC

– co-chairs: Dana Brunson, Gail Krovitz, Lauren Michael

• More information: https://carcc.org/ (Join a working group!)

• NSF RCN award OAC-1620695 (PI: Jim Bottum) “RCN: Advancing Research and

Education through a national network of campus research computing infrastructures

– The CaRC Consortium”

Challenge: Information overload