Cyberinfrastructure Council Reports (MU)

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    March 2014 progress report
    (University of Missouri--Columbia, Cyberinfrastructure Council, 2014) University of Missouri--Columbia. Cyberinfrastructure Council
    Cyberinfrastructure is broadly defined as the human and technological support framework for advanced data acquisition, data storage, data management, data integration, data mining, data visualization, data curation and other computing and information processing services within the research environment. The MU Cyberinfrastructure (CI) Council was formed in the realization that the University could not achieve its goal of retaining AAU membership without adequate research cyberinfrastructure. MU's existing research support computing resources, purchased through partnerships with research investigators and a FY04 Congressional Earmark, are insufficient. MU's CI Council is comprised of faculty and staff representing each of MU Schools and Colleges. They provide input and guidance on the cyberinfrastructure needed to support the wide variety of research and discovery activities across the University of Missouri. Initial members were identified with input from Research Deans of each school/college in December 2012. The first meeting was held in January 2013, and was followed by a series of biweekly meetings. Currently, the Council meets about once a month and welcomes interested visitors. The input of CI members is critical for planning required strategic investments and ongoing support for cyberinfrastructure, as well as the services and resources provided by the Division of IT's Research Support Computing organization.
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    March 2015 progress report
    (University of Missouri--Columbia, Cyberinfrastructure Council, 2015) University of Missouri--Columbia. Cyberinfrastructure Council
    Cyberinfrastructure is broadly defined as the human and technological support framework for advanced data acquisition, data storage, data management, data integration, data mining, data visualization, data curation and other computing and information processing services within the research environment. MU's CI Council continued to work diligently throughout 2014 to understand the CI needs of researchers at MU and to assure research CI investments are coordinated, focused, and leveraged where possible. The University of Missouri is becoming a leader in research CI, and is gaining renown for our faculty leadership through the CI Council. MU is one of only a handful of leading universities who have the highest speed (100 gigabits per second) connections to Internet2 - the Internet dedicated to research and education. Advanced Layer 2 Services provide MU researchers scalable and flexible global access to an open exchange network where the most demanding data-intensive investigations can be conducted. MU researchers can build short or long-term Layer 2 circuits between endpoints on the Internet2 Network and beyond. The Advanced Layer 2 Services are described in this publication: Backbone of 21st Century Research. Looking ahead, momentum is building, and increased faculty participation is welcome - particularly in refining MU's CI plan and in communicating the availability of existing resources - at the campus level and beyond.
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    March 2016 progress report
    (University of Missouri--Columbia, Cyberinfrastructure Council, 2016) University of Missouri--Columbia. Cyberinfrastructure Council
    Cyberinfrastructure is broadly defined as the human and technological support framework for advanced data acquisition, data storage, data management, data integration, data mining, data visualization, data curation and other computing and information processing services within the research environment. Research Computing has been growing to meet the needs of researchers on campus with a number of improvements, new services, and a new direction. Highlights of 2015 include the following: More than one petabyte of newly installed General Purpose Research Storage has been installed on campus to address the urgent need for research data storage. ; The High Performance Computing (HPC) cluster has been upgraded with more capacity and an updated architecture, and user training has been expanded. ; MU faculty has helped guide the introduction of a number of grant-friendly services to help researchers gain computing capacity without having to worry about managing the underlying infrastructure. ; A next generation 100-Gigabit Software Defined Networking (SDN) high-speed network has been installed to address the future needs of researchers and their need to access off-campus resources and remote collaboration. Through all these changes, and with the guidance of MU's Cyberinfrastructure Council, the Division of IT is striving to better support MU researchers with their computational needs.