The Cyberinfrastructure Program committee (CIP) is made up of research computing directors. This committee began as a community of practice, and over time evolved into an officially recognized GPN committee.
The CIP makes recommendations to the EC for cyberinfrastructure, not including networking equipment. The EC has final approval on all purchases.
Here are a few of the projects the CIP has done:
- Collaborated and submitted Several successful grants in the past, and is waiting to hear on another one in 2025.
- Instrumental in initializing and implementing the GPN Research Platform.
- GP-ARGO and GP-ENGINE node deployments
Members
- Kevin Brandt, Assistant Vice President for Research Cyberinfrastructure, South Dakota State University
- Ryan Johnson, Director of Research Computing, University of South Dakota
- Chad Julius, South Dakota State University
- Matthew Keeler Director of Research Computing Support Services, Division of IT
University of Missouri, Columbia - Deep Medhi, Curators’ Professor of Computer Science & Electrical Engineering, University of Missouri, Kansas City
- Kyle Gruhn, University of South Dakota
- Hoang Tran, Director of Research Computing at University of Kansas
- Riley Epperson, Kansas State University
- David Chaffin, University of Arkansas
- Henry Neeman, Assistant VP Information Technology – Research Strategy Advisor
Director, OU Supercomputing Center for Education & Research (OSCER)
Associate Professor, Gallogly College of Engineering
Adjunct Associate Professor, School of Computer Science, The University of Oklahoma - Horst Severini, The University of Oklahoma
- Pratul K. Agarwal, Ph.D.
Assistant Vice President for Research (CyberInfrastructure) &
Director of High-Performance Computing
Oklahoma State University - Dr. Hongfeng Yu
Director, Holland Computing Center - James Morris, Ames laboratory
- Marina Kraeva, Iowa State University
- Ryan Doll, Wichita State University
- Lawrence Tarbox, University of Arkansas Medical Sciences
- Derek Weitzel, Holland Computing Center
- Maureen Donlin, St. Louis University
- Michael Wallace, University of Arkansas Medical Sciences
CI Collaborations Around the Region
GPN-RP (Great Plains Network Research Network)
KanShare
HPC Around the Region
Institute for Computational Research in Engineering and Science (Beocat)
Location: Kansas State University
Website: http://beocat.ksu.edu
Description: Currently 8K compute cores, 3PB storage.
Director: Dan Andresen
Contact Information: dan@ksu..edu
Policies: http://beocat.cis.ksu.edu/beocat/documentation/policy
Major Users: KSU Researchers, academic users across Kansas, and members of NSF funded initiatives.
Last Updated: September 13, 2019
Holland Computing Center (University of Nebraska)
Location: University of Nebraska
Website: http://hcc.unl.edu
Description: Currently 25,000 cores. For more, see http://hcc.unl.edu/facilities/
Interim Director: Hongfeng Yu
Contact Information: http://hcc.unl.edu/contact/
Policies: http://hcc.unl.edu/policy.php
Major Users: NU researchers; US CMS Tier2 users; OSG VOs
Last Updated: Sept. 13, 2019
OU Supercomputing Center for Education & Research (OSCER)
Location: Norman, Oklahoma
Website: http://oscer.ou.edu/
Description: OSCER helps Oklahoma researchers learn and use advanced computing for research and education. The current cluster, Schooner, comprises 621 compute nodes (12,796 cores), providing 391.3 TFLOPs. 420 nodes (8,624 cores) are owned by OSCER, and 201 nodes (4,172 cores) are condominium nodes owned by researchers. OSCER also provides a research cloud (OURcloud), and a low-cost petascale archive storage resource (Oklahoma PetaStore).
Director: Henry Neeman
Contact Information: support@oscer.ou.edu
Policies: The Oklahoma Cyberinfrastructure Initiative allows any academic in the state to use any of the centrally owned resources on par with local users (usually for free). There is a description at http://www.oneocii.okepscor.org. Also visit http://www.oscer.ou.edu/about.php
Major Users: Researchers and educators at OU and other Oklahoma institutions, and their collaborators elsewhere.
Last Updated: May 14, 2018
Oklahoma State University High Performance Computing Center (OSUHPCC)
Location: Stillwater, Oklahoma
Website: http://hpcc.okstate.edu
Description: Resources include HPC systems, research cloud, bioinformatics collaboration, workshops, individualized support and configuration, and proposal development consultations.
Director: Pratul Agarwal
Contact Information: pratul.agarwal@okstate.edu, hpcc@okstate.edu
Policies: All OSU faculty, staff, students, and their collaborators plus any academic in the state, most resources available at no charge, buy-in encouraged for large consumers of resources.
Major Users: Researchers and educators at OSU and other Oklahoma institutions, and their collaborators elsewhere.
Last Updated: May 3, 2018
South Dakota State University
South Dakota State University Research Cyberinfrastructure (RCi)
Location: Brookings, SD
Description: RCi at SDSU provides access to HPC systems, storage and networking services to faculty, staff, students, and collaborators throughout the region. RCi also provides training, consultation, and general compute support for all users of our systems. More information available at https://www.sdstate.edu/division-technology-and-security/information-technology/cyberinfrastructure-resources
Director: Kevin Brandt
Contact Information: Kevin.Brandt@sdstate.edu
Major Users: SDSU Researchers, educators, and collaborators.
University of Missouri Research Computing Support Services
Location: Columbia, Missouri and Rolla, Missouri
Website: https://doit.missouri.edu/research
Description: IT Research Support Solutions (IT RSS) provides multi-campus compute, storage, networking, support, and training for researchers, students, and staff across the University of Missouri-Columbia (Mizzou) and Missouri University of Science & Technology campuses and the UM system.
Director: Mark Bookout
Contact Information: muitrss@missouri.edu
System: 192 nodes and 8,544 cores.
Support: 8 full time staff
Last Updated: December 7, 2019
University of South Dakota Research Computing Group
Location: Vermillion, SD
Description: http://rcg.usd.edu
Director: Ryan Johnson
Contact Information: ryan.johnson@usd.edu
Last Updated: May 3, 2018
Arkansas High Performance Computing Center
- Location: Fayetteville, AR
- Website: http://hpc.uark.edu
- Description: HPC systems and cloud systems (667 nodes, 16,000 cores, 400 TF, 3PB storage), application support, and user interfaces.
- Director: David Chaffin
- Contact Information: ahpcc@uark.edu
- Policies: http://hpc.uark.edu/hpc/assets/docs/HPC-User-Policy.pdf
- Major Users: Researchers and Educators at the U of A and all Arkansas universities, and their collaborators.
- Last Updated: September 10, 2019