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Improving Access to Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Using Regional Computing Collaborations and People Networks: Recommendations from a National Workshop on Expanding Computing Using Collaborative Models

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Dhruva Chakravorty,

Wesley Brashear,

Sharon Broude Geva,

Scotty Strachan,

Forough Ghahramani,

Tim CockerillAuthors Info & Claims

PEARC '23: Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing 2023: Computing for the Common Good

Pages 350 - 354

https://doi.org/10.1145/3569951.3597603

Published: 10 September 2023 Publication History

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Abstract

Cyberinfrastructure (CI) and CI-enabled research continue to play an ever-increasing role in academia and day-to-day life. Two-year institutions and under-resourced four-year institutions face significant challenges in offering advanced cyberinfrastructure resources and support to their campuses and faculty. The National Science Foundation-funded Building Research Innovation in Community Colleges (BRICCs) community was established to bring together administrators, researchers, and educational professionals involved in CI across institutions of different sizes to address gaps in CI accessibility, training, and awareness. This community has continued to meet online and at workshops to identify ways to improve access to and utilization of CI resources at these smaller institutions and community colleges. This report contains the major recommendations resulting from our workshops in 2022 that explored the efficacy of developing collaborative regional models for making advanced CI more accessible at these institutions.

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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3626203.3670544

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PEARC '23: Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing 2023: Computing for the Common Good

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Brashear WPerez LLeake ENite SPennings MStebenne SLiu HChakravorty D(2024)Cultivating Cyberinfrastructure Careers through Student Engagement at Texas A&M University High Performance Research ComputingPractice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing 2024: Human Powered Computing10.1145/3626203.3670544(1-6)Online publication date: 17-Jul-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3626203.3670544

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