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

高性能网络（HPN）和高级网络基础设施（CI）的其他组成部分是关键的使能技术，对于大学在快速发展的科技环境中繁荣发展的能力至关重要。CI的所有组件，特别是高级网络基础设施，都在迅速变化，这使得保持货币、敏捷性和竞争力变得具有挑战性。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、维护和维持这些技术的人员。科罗拉多州立大学、爱达荷地区光学网络、大学大气研究公司、科罗拉多大学博尔德分校和犹他大学积极合作，培训和指导该地区小型机构的教职员工，以提高他们对先进技术的使用，强调他们的优势，并突出他们作为校园、地区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州、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。该计划举办了四个区域工作坊，并到小型机构进行实地考察，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的知识和最佳实践。

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.