Collaborative Research: CC*IIE Region: Rocky Mountain Cyberinfrastructure Mentoring and Outreach Alliance (RMCMOA)

高性能网络（HPN）和先进的网络基础设施（CI）的其他组件是关键的使能技术，对于大学在快速发展的科学和技术环境中繁荣的能力至关重要。 CI的所有组成部分，特别是先进的网络基础设施，都在迅速变化，这使得保持通用性、敏捷性和竞争力变得非常困难。规模较小的机构处于严重的劣势，缺乏资金和知道如何部署、优化、维护和维持这类技术的人员。科罗拉多州立大学、爱达荷州区域光网络、大学大气研究公司、科罗拉多大学博尔德分校，和犹他州大学积极合作，培训和指导该地区较小机构的教职员工，以提高他们的使用先进技术，强调其优势，并突出其作为校园，区域和国家科学基础设施的关键作用。该项目旨在推动科罗拉多、新墨西哥州、爱达荷州、犹他州和怀俄明州的小型学院和大学采用和扩展先进的网络和CI技术。该项目举办了四次区域讲习班，并对较小的机构进行了实地访问，以支持网络工程活动，并分享部署和应用基于网络的网络基础设施方面的知识和最佳做法。

High Performance Networking (HPN) and other components of advanced cyberinfrastructure (CI) are key enabling technologies vital to a college's ability to prosper in a rapidly evolving scientific and technical environment. All components of CI, especially advanced network infrastructure, are swiftly changing, making it challenging to maintain currency, agility, and competitiveness. Smaller institutions are at a severe disadvantage, lacking in capital and personnel who know how to deploy, optimize, maintain, and sustain such technologies.Colorado State University, the Idaho Regional Optical Network, the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, the University of Colorado Boulder, and the University of Utah have partnered proactively to train and mentor faculty and staff from smaller institutions in the region to enhance their use of advanced technologies, emphasize their advantages, and highlight their critical role as campus, regional, and national scientific infrastructure. This project educates in an effort to drive adoption and expansion of advanced networking and CI technologies to smaller colleges and universities in Colorado, New Mexico, Idaho, Utah, and Wyoming. The project conducts four regional workshops, as well as site visits to smaller institutions to support network engineering activities and sharing knowledge and best practices in deploying and applying network-based cyberinfrastructure.