CC* CIRA: BRICCs - Establishing Pathways for Regional Computing

CC* CIRA：金砖国家 - 建立区域计算途径

• 批准号: 2346751
• 负责人: Dhruva Chakravorty
• 金额: $ 20万
• 依托单位: Texas A&M University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-04-01 至 2026-03-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2346751&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CC; CIRA; BRICCs; Establishing; Pathways

Increasing use of advanced computing in academic and research pursuits has encouraged two-year institutions to offer their students and researchers pathways to large-scale computing. Advanced cyberinfrastructure (CI) resources are required to support the educators, students and researchers engaged in cloud computing, data-sciences, and related cross-cutting fields such as smart manufacturing offered at these institutions. While community colleges differ in terms of enrollment, demographics, geographical location, business models, and programs offered, the underlying institutional needs to store, access, manage, analyze, compute and curate their data remain the same. By offering a unique collaborative space for regional computing, BRICCs-Pathways will support burgeoning research and education programs in cyber-enabled cross-cutting disciplines at two-year institutions.This award establishes a BRICCs (Bringing Research Innovation to Community Colleges)-Pathways for Regional Computing, continuing and expanding previous planning and multi-institutional engagement activities, but focused around smaller institutions in Texas. BRICCs-Pathways supports these institutions in developing models to advance CI on campus. The project develops scalable and portable frameworks to promote regional computing efforts by (i) promoting collaborations with state agencies, four-year institutions, and national CI center in their region; (ii) analyzing the implementations of networking models; (iii) exploring funded models to understand whether anchor agencies are needed for successful implementation; (iv) leveraging partnerships and assimilated information to assist institutions apply for funding for CI resources; (v) studying the technical computing and network characteristics to find an appropriate balance between network security and research and educational needs; and (vi) exploring means to make computing accessible to researchers and students at these institutions. BRICCs-Pathways alleviates the need for several individual institutional studies by producing workshop reports, implementation studies, shared developed materials, and a set of recommendations to the community.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

在学术和研究活动中越来越多地使用先进计算，鼓励两年制机构为学生和研究人员提供大规模计算的途径。这些机构需要先进的网络基础设施（CI）资源来支持从事云计算、数据科学以及智能制造等相关交叉领域的教育工作者、学生和研究人员。虽然社区大学在招生、人口统计、地理位置、商业模式和提供的课程方面有所不同，但存储、访问、管理、分析、计算和整理数据的基本机构需求保持不变。 通过为区域计算提供独特的协作空间，BRICCs-Pathways 将支持两年制机构中网络交叉学科的新兴研究和教育项目。该奖项建立了 BRICCs（为社区学院带来研究创新）-Pathways区域计算，继续并扩大之前的规划和多机构参与活动，但重点关注德克萨斯州的小型机构。 BRICCs-Pathways 支持这些机构开发模型以推进校园 CI 的发展。该项目开发可扩展和可移植的框架，通过 (i) 促进与所在地区的国家机构、四年制机构和国家 CI 中心的合作； (ii) 分析网络模型的实施； (iii) 探索资助模式，以了解成功实施是否需要主力机构； (iv) 利用合作伙伴关系和同化信息协助机构申请 CI 资源资金； (v) 研究技术计算和网络特性，以在网络安全与研究和教育需求之间找到适当的平衡； (vi) 探索使这些机构的研究人员和学生能够使用计算的方法。 BRICCs-Pathways 通过制作研讨会报告、实施研究、共享开发材料以及向社区提供的一系列建议，减轻了对多项单独机构研究的需求。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的评估进行评估，被认为值得支持。智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准。