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Campus Cyberinfrastructure

Learn from Jim Bottum, a CIO with extensive experience, as he discusses the importance of cyberinfrastructure in higher education. Discover key strategies, challenges, and success stories to advance your institution's IT framework.

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Campus Cyberinfrastructure

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  1. Campus Cyberinfrastructure A CIO’s View EDUCAUSE Webinar June 8, 2009 Jim Bottum Clemson University

  2. Personal Experience • NSF Office of Advanced Scientific Computing (1980s) • NSF-funded center, NCSA@UIUC (1986-2001) • Purdue’s first CIO (2001-2006) • CIO at Clemson (2006-present) • NSF Advisory Committee on Cyberinfrastructure, chair (2006-present) • Internet2 Board of Trustees (2008-preset)

  3. CI Checklist • Strategic? • Understood? • Investments and ROI must be clear to all levels of governance • Tie to institutional strategies and priorities • Evangelism needed • Plumber, partner and leader • Crossover benefits & low hanging fruit • Partnerships, leverage, diversification • Sustainability

  4. CI Strategy: Purdue • Purdue strategic plan emphasized targetedinvestment in a comprehensive IT (CI) plan. • Percentage of strategic plan funding targeted to CI investment. $1M additive over 5 years • The State of Indiana was a co-investor.

  5. Clemson CI Vision “Cyberinfrastructure is the primary backbone that ties together innovation in research, instruction, and service to elevate Clemson to the Top 20” Dori HelmsProvost

  6. The IT Reality – Clemson 2006 • Underfunded technology by $12-14M for over a decade • Capability gaps: HPC, storage, optical fiber, WAN, project & process mgt, • Fragmented infrastructure • Leadership void • No plan • Gap with users – non-responsive • Lack of clear policies, process • Users view as capricious/dictatorial • Inward looking - not engaged or visible nationally • Fallen behind in many areas such as research supportSource: consultant’s report; personal observation

  7. CI Organizing Framework • Computing and Communications • Includes data intensive • Data • Storage, access, security, D2K, • Virtual Organizations • Software environments to enable communities • Education and Workforce Training • All levels of education • Training workers for the knowledge economy

  8. Cyberinfrastructure • …….infrastructure refers to the roads, power grids, telephone systems, bridges, rail lines.. required for an industrial economy……. • ……infrastructure is often taken for granted and noticed only when it stops functioning • ……infrastructure is among the most complex and expensive thing[s] that society creates • ……..cyberinfrastructure refers to distributed computer, information and communication technology. • ………if infrastructure is required for an industrial economy, cyberinfrastructure is required knowledge economy.

  9. No one wants to invest in infrastructure…. …it ain’t sexy 9

  10. You have to start somewhere Designed at NCAR, Boulder, CO, September 17, 1985 CTC JvNC NCAR PSC NCSA SDSC HPC centers and HSP network

  11. Productivity & Discovery Enabled Applications, Tools, Consulting Software Stack/Middleware Servers, CPU, Storage, … Networking/ConnectivityPower & Cooling †Maslow, A. H. (1943). A Theory of Human Motivation. Psychological Review, 50, 370-396. Framework-Assessment Tool Maslow Self-Actualization Safety Physiological Courtesy: John Cobb, ORNL

  12. Challenges • Cultural • Faculty; staff; administrators; • Layers • Social engineering • Financial • Apportioning costs • Staying the course • People • pipeline • Technical • Often the easiest piece • Vision & plan • Who’s in charge? • Source of vision? • Collective vision? • Organizational • Roles • Responsibility to others?

  13. Faculty Engagement Over 200 Faculty Base of 1000 Colleges Attended: AAH, BBS, E&S, HEHD, AFLS & Libraries Dean of Arts & Humanities chaired a panel National Panel & CNI 13

  14. Leverage Existing Resources….. WILSON BOINC

  15. CI facilitated crossover ROI Impact: In fall, 2008, Blackboard archive for end of semester ran for 85.5 hours delaying other end of semester processing including faculty setup of spring courses. After applying Condor architecture and processing to the task, spring, 2009 end of semester archives completed in just 23.5 hours. (see chart)

  16. Shared business model…..

  17. Financial Resources FY05 4% at beginning

  18. Student Grid • Taking the lid of in the classroom • Donation from Sun • Evolved into TeraGrid resource

  19. IT & Sponsored Research 19

  20. Leveraged CI Investments LHC @ CERN

  21. Anthrax Simulation • Use Autodock for running molecular level simulations on the effects of using anthrax toxin receptor inhibitors • May be useful in treating cancer • May be useful in treating anthrax intoxication

  22. Multiple Funding Sources Tri-County Tech. Clemson CU-ICAR/BMW Pee Dee REC USC Baruch REC Sandhill REC Savannah River Labs Rural Healthcare Consortium Edisto REC Coastal REC CURI Lasch Potential partners Funded by private, state and federal sources

  23. Thank You

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