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OAC Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC) |
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| Initial Amendment Date: | August 29, 2011 |
| Latest Amendment Date: | August 9, 2016 |
| Award Number: | 1153775 |
| Award Instrument: | Standard Grant |
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Rajiv Ramnath
OAC Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC) CSE Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering |
| Start Date: | September 1, 2011 |
| End Date: | August 31, 2017 (Estimated) |
| Total Intended Award Amount: | $300,000.00 |
| Total Awarded Amount to Date: | $300,000.00 |
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104 Airport Drive, Suite 2200 Chapel Hill NC US 27599-1350 |
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| NSF Program(s): | Software Institutes |
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| Award Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Fund Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Assistance Listing Number(s): | 47.070 |
ABSTRACT
Many large NSF Collaboratories are individually solving sometimes very similar CI challenges and utilizing the same academic research software. These projects also face very similar challenges in the development of new research software necessary to achieve the science objectives of the collaboratory. Alignment, re-use and coordinated development of enabling CI across these projects could lead to a National CI Roadmap, greatly enhancing infrastructure for research and education in the US. However, adopting new technologies and approaches mid-project imposes sufficiently high risk to the success of the science goals of the individual projects that this level of coordination and leverage rarely experienced at a deep level. This research will explore the risks and benefits, and development of new processes and communities to establish a coordinated National CI Roadmap.
In developing new processes for coordinated CI, the investigators and participating collaboratories will examine issues and concerns including: risk assessment and management for outsourced services and participation and utilization of developing or emerging open source software; privacy, integrity, assurances; code management; separation of software at the boundary of domain science and enabling infrastructure; virtualization; federated identity and group management; hosted data management and analytics offerings; integration with and dependence upon campus services and communicating with campus IT leadership.
PROJECT OUTCOMES REPORT
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This project had two related outcomes. The first was the creation of a distributed data sharing platform for scientific data. It is essential that researchers have the ability to share data, discover and access the data that has been collected at different institutions, test their analysis methods on a diverse collection of data, and publish and share the results with the community. The size and complexity of the data, as well as the computational requirements of the analysis methods makes conventional approaches to data sharing difficult for most researchers.We created a prototype platform for this project, which now forms the basis of a data services platform called xDCI. Another project called BRAIN-I which collects high-resolution 3D images of the brain is also based on the work done as part of this project.
The second outcome of the project was to understand and disseminate the data collection, storage, analysis and visualization needs of two areas related to the Internet of Things. The first area was on the Industrial Internet, and we held a workshop in July 2015 at Cisco Headquarters in San Jose, CA. The record of this meeting was widely distributed. The second workshop was on mobile technologies and how they can be used for health (mHealth). This workshop was held in May 2017 at Chapel Hill. Reports on both the workshops are available by either writing
Last Modified: 04/18/2018
Modified by: Ashok Krishnamurthy
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