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OAC Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC) |
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Initial Amendment Date: | July 17, 2019 |
Latest Amendment Date: | July 17, 2019 |
Award Number: | 1936847 |
Award Instrument: | Standard Grant |
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Kevin Thompson
kthompso@nsf.gov (703)292-4220 OAC Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC) CSE Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering |
Start Date: | August 1, 2019 |
End Date: | July 31, 2020 (Estimated) |
Total Intended Award Amount: | $90,000.00 |
Total Awarded Amount to Date: | $90,000.00 |
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101 W LINCOLN AVE STE 10 LITITZ PA US 17543-1060 (717)963-7490 |
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5775 Allentown Blvd, Suite 101 Harrisburg PA US 17112-4051 |
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NSF Program(s): | Campus Cyberinfrastructure |
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Award Agency Code: | 4900 |
Fund Agency Code: | 4900 |
Assistance Listing Number(s): | 47.070 |
ABSTRACT
The 2019 Campus Cyberinfrastructure and Cybersecurity Innovation for Cyberinfrastructure PI Workshop builds upon the success of the previous Campus Cyberinfrastructure Workshops providing an opportunity for recipients of all active NSF Campus Cyberinfrastructure (CC*) and Cybersecurity Innovation for Cyberinfrastructure (CICI) awards to meet in person, exchange project findings, interact with national cyberinfrastructure experts and collaborate across project areas and project regions. By again co-locating with the Quilt Fall Member Meeting, the broader scope encourages relationships between campus cyberinfrastructure, science driven applications, cybersecurity, and regional and national cyberinfrastructure resources. Based on last year's experience, the meeting schedule has been updated to provide additional opportunities for interaction between PIs themselves as well as between the three groups participating in the meetings. Included in the 2019 PI Workshop is an expanded pre-workshop set of breakout sessions half-day breakout sessions on topics relevant to academic research networking challenges facing campuses and CC* and CICI PI teams.
The intellectual merit of this project is the exchange of project findings, interaction between national cyberinfrastructure experts, collaboration across project areas and project regions that will lead to new ideas, relationships and collaborations associated with an in person workshop. The half-day cyberinfrastructure engineering session will provide timely insights into growing practice of cyberinfrastructure facilitation in the campus environment that can be shared with the co-located meeting attendees as well as the community in general. The broader impact associated with the workshop includes the dissemination of workshop information, including the workshop presentations. By co-locating with the Quilt meeting the workshop continues to bring together stakeholders with a vested interest in leveraging campus cyberinfrastructure investments to provide the opportunity to develop stronger ties between campus cyberinfrastructure, science driven applications and regional and national cyberinfrastructure resources, leading to a broader set of collaborations and lasting impact on national campus cyberinfrastructure and science driven applications.
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.
PROJECT OUTCOMES REPORT
Disclaimer
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The 2019 CC* and CICI Workshop was held in Minneapolis, MN in September 2019 continuing the practice of moving the location of the workshop to facilitate attendance from a diverse set of participants. Total attendance over the three collocated meetings was 304 people including 128 PIs or staff associated with 98 Campus Cyberinfrastructure awards and 96 different organizations/institutions.Twenty-two organizations sent more than one participant. Attendees provided new or updated Virtual Business Cards (VBC), a one-page powerpoint slide that included basic information on the PIs, the individual projects with contact information as well as a project quad chart summarizing their projects. Two pre-workshop breakout sessions were offered in collaborations with other NSF projects of interest to the PIs with over 75 attendees from over 58 organizations attending the breakouts.
As with the past PI Workshops, the most visible outcome of the 2019 Workshop was the availability of the workshop presentations, meeting notes and other supplemental material online as a resource for the project PIs, their staff and collaborators as well as the broader cyberinfrastructure community. The Workshop provides the opportunity for the exchange of information, project findings, new collaborations and ideas occurring through both formal presentations as well as informal interactions between the workshop attendees. An additional outcome of the workshop is the adoption of new cyberinfrastructure and cybersecurity techniques, technologies and methods by a diverse set of campuses and disciplines. Specific topics of discussion included: the importance of measuring data throughput as a performance indicator for friction-free scientific discovery, challenges of deploying research cyberinfrastructure at tribal colleges and universities, regional networks? role in providing research IT resources, new resources and training available for science DMZ tools and applications, and mechanisms for successfully broadening the impact associated with a funded project. New to the 2019 Workshop was the convening of several ad hoc and scheduled side meetings demonstrating the level of collaboration that has developed among the CC* and CICI PIs and with the collocated participants, in this case the NRP and Quilt Meeting attendees. Also offered for the first time in 2019 was the Newcomers Cyberinfrastructure 101 Breakfast session held in a highly interactive game-show format which set the tone for an interactive day of learning and helped rapidly familiarize newcomers and new PIs with some of the most important and frequently used terminology specific to the Campus Cyberinfrastructure program areas.
By collocating with the 3NRP and Quilt Fall Member Meeting and including external participants, such as PIs from expired cyberinfrastructure grants and ESnet staff members, the workshop continues to provide an opportunity to develop strong ties between the campus cyberinfrastructure project staff and the regional and national networking community. It is expected that the in-depth knowledge exchange between program PIs, regional network leaders and ESnet technical staff will lead to improved cyberinfrastructure and cybersecurity resources as they are applied to science research and education applications nationwide.
Last Modified: 07/03/2020
Modified by: Jennifer Oxenford
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