CC* Planning: Designing a Process to Improve Research Computing Infrastructure at City Tech

纽约城市理工学院是纽约市立大学旗下的一所综合性学院，也是一所服务于拉美裔美国人的机构，该学院正在为网络基础设施(CI)以及未来在研究计算资源方面的投资和战略管理制定五年战略计划。一个从事国际高性能计算项目的教师团队正在召集一个基础广泛的利益相关者小组，以考虑CI治理和领导力、高性能计算、数据基础设施以及教师培训和劳动力发展等问题。CI用户的生态系统包括从事粒子物理、星系形成、基因组学和综合系统生物学、蛋白质动力学和药物发现的研究人员，以及需要学习研究计算基础知识的广泛领域的教师，以及通过他们的教师导师接触CI的学生。这些利益相关者正在考虑如何建立横向和纵向整合的合作伙伴关系，利用纽约州教育和研究网络、木匠项目和NSF已建立的项目的专业知识来刺激竞争研究。CC*规划计划的目标是设计一个灵活、可扩展、可访问的研究网络基础设施(CI)，能够满足City Tech最先进的CI用户不断变化的计算需求，同时在更大的CI生态系统中培养影响的长尾。已确定的机构需求包括以教师为主导的治理结构、系统而不是临时的资源获取政策，以避免形成孤岛，增加对用户的专业传播与信息支持，以及为系统的传播与传播与治理规划和治理创造一个稳定和可持续的起点。这笔规划赠款提供了这一起点。该项目的工作将通过各种论坛、工作组和具有传播与信息发展专业知识的实体进行协商来进行。调查的主题包括以教师为主导的领导结构、数据、HPC和利益相关者参与。可交付的项目是为期五年的网络基础设施总体规划，以及为未来提交给NSF MRI和CC*计划的提案规划，以寻求对总体计划的实施提供部分支持。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

New York City College of Technology, a comprehensive college within the City University of New York and a Hispanic-Serving Institution, is creating a five-year strategic plan for cyberinfrastructure (CI) and future investments and strategic management in research computing resources. A team of faculty engaged in international high-performance computing projects are convening a broad-based stakeholder group to consider issues of CI governance and leadership, high-performance computing, data infrastructure, and faculty training and workforce development. The ecosystem of CI users includes researchers working on particle physics, galaxy formation, genomics and integrative systems biology, and protein dynamics and drug discovery, as well as faculty in a broad range of domains who need to learn the fundamentals of research computing, and students who are exposed to CI through their faculty mentors. These stakeholders are considering how to construct laterally and vertically integrated partnerships that draw upon the expertise of practitioners from New York State Education and Research Network, The Carpentries, and the NSF Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research.The goal of the CC* planning initiative is to design a flexible, extensible, accessible research cyberinfrastructure (CI) that is capable of meeting the evolving computational needs of City Tech’s most advanced CI users while cultivating a long tail of impact within the larger CI ecosystem. Identified institutional needs include a faculty-led governance structure, systematic rather than ad hoc resource acquisition policies to avoid the creation of silos, increased professional CI support for users, and the creation of a stable and sustainable starting point for systemic CI planning and governance. This planning grant provides that starting point. The work of the project will proceed through a combination of forums, Working Groups, and consultations from entities with expertise in CI development. Topics for investigation include a faculty led leadership structure, data, HPC, and stakeholder engagement. Project deliverables are a five-year Cyberinfrastructure Master Plan and planning for future proposal submissions to the NSF MRI and CC* programs to seek partial support for implementation of the Master Plan.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.