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Chair: Guy Almes,Texas A&M University
Staff Liaison: Karen A. Wetzel, EDUCAUSE
ECAR-CCI Working Group Roster
The ECAR Campus Cyberinfrastructure (ECAR-CCI) Working Group helps educational institutions develop institutional strategies, plan resource deployment, and help users harness and optimize the power and capabilities of these new integrated IT tools and systems for educational and research applications in higher education.
Current Projects
Transitioning to IPv6
IPv6 was first introduced in 1996, but many schools haven't made the move yet. Find out reasons to start planning a transition now.
Big Data
Datasets that are massive in scale are becoming increasingly common for both research and administrative data in higher education. Experts expect that there will be a boom in big data in the next decade, as big data is transforming the way research is done (particularly in the sciences) as well as is being used in analytics to support business decisions and indicate value. But issues that surround data generally take on unique characteristics when it comes to big data -- from networks that aren’t growing at the same speed as data storage and computation speed, to questions of security and the scalability of current firewalls and other measures. How will our campuses support big data, and how will we work with national data centers? The ECAR Campus Cyberinfrastructure (ECAR-CCI) Working Group is exploring these issues in order to better understand the areas where additional focus from this group might make an impact.
ECAR-CCI Mission Statement
Cyberinfrastructure is a rapidly growing and expanding component of information technology focused on distributed computing, data, and communications technology. Hardware and software systems are rapidly being developed and implemented to build the virtual research communities along with the collaborative tools to knit these user communities together. Along with these rapid advances, a well educated and trained workforce needs to be in place to support these activities. The ECAR Campus Cyberinfrastructure (ECAR-CCI) Working Group helps educational institutions develop institutional strategies and plan their resource deployment in this emerging and evolving technological landscape and to help their users harness and optimize the power and capabilities of these new integrated IT tools and systems for educational and research applications in higher education.
This overall process is changing whole disciplines, educational initiatives, and research methodologies. Cyberinfrastructure encompasses a broad array of topics; some areas that this working group may focus on include:
- Supercomputing
- Data centers, including power efficiency
- Research data management
- High-capacity, mass-storage systems
- Scalable interactive visualization
- State-of-the-art high-performance networks
- Education and workforce development
- Grids and middleware
The group will emphasize how these elements combine, in a holistic way, to support the mission of our universities. The working group welcomes input, ideas, and project participation from the higher education community. Contact us at ECARWG@educause.edu
Resources
- Final Report: What's Next for Campus Cyberinfrastructure? ACTI responds to the NSF ACCI reports (July 2012)
- First Look: What's Next for Cyberinfrastructure? ACTI responds to the NSF ACCI reports (May 2012)
- ACTI-CCI Draft Feedback on the NSF ACCI Task Force Reports, January 10, 2012
Presentation given at the 2012 ACTI Member Meeting - ACTI Campus Cyberinfrastructure Meeting, October 18, 2011 (EDUCAUSE Annual Conference 2011)
- Developing a Coherent Cyberinfrastructure from the Campus to the National Facilities: Challenges and Strategies,
February 2009 (A Joint Workshop Report between CCI and the Coalition for Academic Scientific Computation) - DOE Perspective on Cyberinfrastructure – Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, EDUCAUSE Annual Conference (2009), Gary Jung
- NERSC: Delivering High-End Scientific Computing to the Nation's Research Community, EDUCAUSE Annual Conference (2009), Katie Antypas
- Campus Cyberinfrastructure and Data Centers, October 2008
- Considerations for Campus Cyberinfrastructure Data Management Policy and Procedure Development, October 2008
- Cyberinfrastructure Advisory Framework, October 2008
- Creating a Five-Minute Conversation About Cyberinfrastructure, April 2008
- DOE Perspective on Cyberinfrastructure – Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, EDUCAUSE Annual Conference (2009), Gary Jung
- NERSC: Delivering High-End Scientific Computing to the Nation's Research Community, EDUCAUSE Annual Conference (2009), Katie Antypas
See all ECAR-CCI Resources. Visit the EDUCAUSE library.
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Members meet biweekly to identify and discuss specific projects. To get involved, contact us.
