Advanced Cyberinfrastructure for Teaching and Research at Rowan University and the Southern New Jersey Region

该奖项全部或部分由《2021年美国救援计划法案》（公法117-2）资助。在过去的几年里，罗文大学在计算研究、教学和创新活动方面有所增加。罗文学院面临着一个挑战，既要支持其教师多样化和不断增长的计算需求，又要制定一项对机构基础设施进行最佳投资的计划。为此，罗文大学正在规划一个能够持续支持这种增加的活动的网络基础设施。这项工作产生的制度知识将使罗文大学、其社区学院附属机构和合作伙伴以及其他地区大学能够充分发挥其教职员工和学生的潜力，开展更大规模的变革工作，并提高他们在数据驱动的计算研究方面的竞争力。CC*规划补助金旨在解决建设网络基础设施的挑战。对大学（和南新泽西地区）的需求与获取最先进的网络基础设施的障碍之间的差距的早期分析揭示了以下需求：评估和自学以了解研究人员的需求，在机构层面规划为CI需求提供资金，以及与计算研究和实验相关的学生参与和培训。该项目侧重于战略规划，以制定一种协调的方法，向新泽西州南部的社区通报最新的CI发展，评估利益相关者的需求和Rowan支持这些需求的能力，与其他机构建立可持续的基于区域的计算伙伴关系，并制定一项强有力的计划，使Rowan能够建立共享和可访问的CI。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2).Over the last several years, Rowan University has seen an increase in computational research, teaching, and innovation activities. Rowan faces a challenge in supporting the diverse and growing computational needs of its faculty, while also developing a plan for optimal investment in institutional infrastructure. To this end, Rowan University is planning for a cyberinfrastructure that can sustainably support this increased activity. The work generates institutional knowledge that will allow Rowan, its community college affiliates & partners, and other regional universities to reach the full potential of its faculty and students in conducting larger scale transformative work and increase their competitiveness in data-driven computational research.The CC* Planning Grant addresses the challenge of building cyberinfrastructure (CI). Early analysis on the gap between the needs of the university (and Southern New Jersey region) and the barriers for accessing state of the art cyberinfrastructure revealed the following needs: assessment and self-study to understand researchers needs, planning at the institutional level for financing CI needs, and student engagement and training related to computational research & experimentation. The project focuses on strategic planning in order to develop a coordinated approach that informs the communities in Southern New Jersey of the latest CI developments, assesses the stakeholders’ needs and Rowan’s capacity to support those needs, builds partnerships with other institutions for sustainable regional based computing, and develops a robust plan that will enable Rowan to build shared and accessible CI.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.