CC* CIRA: BRICCs - Establishing Pathways for Regional Computing

在学术和研究中越来越多地使用先进的计算技术，这鼓励了两年制院校为他们的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、数据科学和相关交叉领域（如智能制造）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、计算和管理数据的基本机构需求是相同的。通过为区域计算提供一个独特的合作空间，金砖国家路径计划将支持两年制院校在网络交叉学科方面蓬勃发展的研究和教育项目。该奖项为区域计算建立了“金砖国家”（将研究创新带到社区学院）途径，继续并扩大了以前的规划和多机构参与活动，但重点放在德克萨斯州的小型机构上。金砖国家合作路径计划支持这些机构开发模式，推进校园CI。该项目开发可扩展和便携的框架，通过以下方式促进区域计算工作：(i)促进与所在地区的国家机构、四年制大学和国家CI中心的合作；（ii）分析网络模型的实现；（iii）探索资助模式，以了解成功实施是否需要锚定机构；（iv）利用伙伴关系和已吸收的信息，协助院校申请CI资源的资金；(v)研究技术计算和网络特性，在网络安全与研究和教育需要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机的方法。金砖国家路径通过编写研讨会报告、实施研究、共享开发材料和向社区提出的一系列建议，减轻了对个别机构研究的需求。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。

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.