CC* CIRA: BRICCs - Establishing Pathways for Regional Computing

在学术和研究活动中越来越多地使用先进的计算，鼓励两年制机构为学生和研究人员提供大规模计算的途径。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（如这些机构提供的智能制造）的教育工作者、学生和研究人员。虽然社区学院在招生，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，计算和策划其数据的基本机构需求保持不变。 通过为区域计算提供一个独特的合作空间，BRICCs-Pathways将支持两年制院校中新兴的网络交叉学科研究和教育项目。该奖项建立了BRICCs（将研究创新带入社区学院）-区域计算之路，继续并扩展了以前的规划和多机构参与活动，但重点是德克萨斯州的小型机构。BRICCs Pathways支持这些机构开发模型，以推动校园CI。该项目开发可扩展和可移植的框架，以促进区域计算工作，通过（i）促进与国家机构，四年制机构和国家CI中心在其区域的合作;（ii）分析网络模型的实施;（iii）探索资助的模型，以了解是否需要锚机构成功实施;（iv）善用伙伴关系及所吸纳的资料，协助院校申请资讯科技资源;（v）研究电脑技术及网络的特点，在网络保安与研究及教育需要之间取得适当平衡;及（vi）探讨如何让这些院校的研究人员和学生使用电脑。 BRICCs-Pathways通过制作研讨会报告、实施研究、共享开发的材料和一系列向社区提供的建议，强调了几个单独机构研究的必要性。该奖项反映了NSF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.