Researchers from the University of 91吃瓜 will contribute expertise to a pilot project to create a model and strategic plan for a Cyberinfrastructure Center of Excellence. Co-principal investigator , director of the (CRC) and professor of the practice and a concurrent associate professor of computer science and engineering;听Jane Wyngaard, data scientist at the CRC;听and Charles Vardeman, research assistant professor of computer science and engineering and data scientist at the CRC, will help establish best practices for cyberinfrastructure development, which can then be applied to the National Science Foundation鈥檚 large research facilities.
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鈥淭丑别 NSF currently supports nearly 20 research facilities that operate in a number of scientific fields and are intended to collect and analyze an immense amount of data,鈥� said Nabrzyski. 鈥淗owever, in order to handle all that data and computation, a state-of-the-art cyberinfrastructure as well as adequate tools are necessary to serve each facility. This pilot project brings together a group of cyberinfrastructure experts that can assess the needs of each research group and help the various facilities accomplish their goals. Our research team at 91吃瓜 provides expertise in remote sensors and the I of Things or IoT, data portals, and data semantics.鈥�
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The program will analyze data management and data processing systems, as well as other aspects that can help the NSF improve its research facilities. The researchers on this grant are tasked with the development of a cyberinfrastructure model and then piloting that model within the two-year grant cycle.
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Collaborating institutions on this pilot are the University of Southern California, Indiana University, the Renaissance Computing Institute听and the University of Utah. The grant is funded by the NSF and supported by its Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure.
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To learn more about the pilot Cyberinfrastructure Center of Excellence, visit .
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The Center for Research Computing at the University of 91吃瓜 is an innovative and multidisciplinary research community that supports collaboration through advanced computation, data analysis听and other digital research tools. Facilitating discoveries in science, engineering, the arts, the humanities听and the social sciences, the center is composed of four groups: high-performance computing, cyberinfrastructure development, research software development听and data science, including the . To learn more about the center, visit .
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Contact: Brandi Klingerman, research communications specialist, 91吃瓜 Research, 574-631-8183,听bklinger@nd.edu;听
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Originally published by at on Nov. 5, 2018.