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    Workshop Report: Campus Bridging: Reducing Obstacles on the Path to Big Answers 2015
    (2015-09) Hallock, Barbara; Knepper, Richard; Stewart, Craig A.
    For the researcher whose experiments require large-scale cyberinfrastructure, there exists significant challenges to successful completion. These challenges are broad and go far beyond the simple issue that there are not enough large-scale resources available; these solvable issues range from a lack of documentation written for a non-technical audience to a need for greater consistency with regard to system configuration and consistent software configuration and availability on the large-scale resources at national tier supercomputing centers, with a number of other challenges existing alongside the ones mentioned here. Campus Bridging is a relatively young discipline that aims to mitigate these issues for the academic end-user, for whom the entire process can feel like a path comprised entirely of obstacles. The solutions to these problems must by necessity include multiple approaches, with focus not only on the end user but on the system administrators responsible for supporting these resources as well as the systems themselves. These system resources include not only those at the supercomputing centers but also those that exist at the campus or departmental level and even on the personal computing devices the researcher uses to complete his or her work. This workshop report compiles the results of a half-day workshop, held in conjunction with IEEE Cluster 2015 in Chicago, IL.
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    Campus Bridging Final Report
    (2013-09-30) Knepper, Rich
    The document describes the XSEDE campus bridging pilot that was conducted from January 2012 to July 2013, the relevant XSEDE use cases for the campus bridging pilot, and the experiences of the system administrators and users of the software deployed for the campus bridging pilot.
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    Final report on accomplishments of a Task Force on Campus Bridging sponsored workshop: Campus Leadership Engagement in Building a Coherent Campus Cyberinfrastructure
    (2013) Dreher, Patrick; Stewart, Craig A.; Pepin, James M.; Almes, Guy T.; Mundrane, Michael; Ahalt, Stanley C.
    In 2010, the National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a grant of $49,840 to the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill to organize a workshop on the topic of campus cyberinfrastructure with the title “Campus Bridging Taskforce Sponsored Workshop: Campus Leadership Engagement in Building a Coherent Campus Cyberinfrastructure.” This report discusses the contents of the full workshop report to the NSF as well as the accomplishments and outcomes reported via the NSF’s online reporting system.
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    Campus Bridging Birds-of-a-Feather Session at TeraGrid 2011 Conference
    (2011-11-01) Knepper, Richard; Stewart, Craig A.
    Richard Knepper attended the TeraGrid 2011 conference in Salt Lake City, Utah, and together with representatives from the TeraGrid Campus Champions program conducted a Birds of a Feather session discussing the XSEDE Campus Bridging initiative and the Campus Champions program. The attendees discussed the Campus Bridging and Campus Champions plans for XSEDE.
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    National Science Foundation Advisory Committee for Cyberinfrastructure Task Force on Campus Bridging Final Report
    (National Science Foundation, 2011-04-13) ACCI Task Force on Campus Bridging
    The mission of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Advisory Committee on Cyberinfrastructure (ACCI) is to advise the NSF as a whole on matters related to vision and strategy regarding cyberinfrastructure (CI). In early 2009 the ACCI charged six task forces with making recommendations to the NSF in strategic areas of cyberinfrastructure: Campus Bridging; Cyberlearning and Workforce Development; Data and Visualization; Grand Challenges; High Performance Computing (HPC); and Software for Science and Engineering. Each task force was asked to offer advice on the basis of which the NSF would modify existing programs and create new programs. This document is the final, overall report of the Task Force on Campus Bridging.
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    Campus Bridging: Data and Networking Issues Workshop Report
    (2011-04-19) Almes, Guy T.; Jent, David; Stewart, Craig A.
    In April of 2010, Indiana University coordinated a workshop, funded in part by the National Science Foundation, on the data and networking aspects of cyberinfrastructure and campus bridging. The workshop took a broad view of cyberinfrastructure, networking, and data. This is the final report of that workshop
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    Campus Bridging: Campus Leadership Engagement in Building a Coherent Campus Cyberinfrastructure Workshop Report
    (2011-04-07) Dreher, Patrick; Ahalt, Stan; Almes, Guy; Mundrane, Michael; Pepin, James; Stewart, Craig A.
    This report presents the discussions at and recommendations made at “Campus Leadership Engagement in Building a Coherent Campus Cyberinfrastructure,” a workshop held in Anaheim, California from October 10-12, 2010. The main goals for this workshop focused on gathering the thoughts, ideas and perspectives of senior university administrators. The resulting report covers the topics of: - The current state of campus bridging from the perspectives of the CIO and VP for Research. - Challenges and opportunities at the campus leader level for enablement of campus bridging in the university community. - The senior campus leadership advocacy role for promoting campus bridging.
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    Current structure and past history of US cyberinfrastructure (data set and figures)
    (2011-03-31) Welch, Von; Sheppard, Ray; Lingwall, Malinda J.; Stewart, Craig A.
    This spreadsheet contains the raw data and analysis that were used in the NSF ACCI Task Force on Campus Bridging's analysis with regards to the current distribution of computing power in the US research and higher education community.
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    Campus Bridging: Software & Software Service Issues Workshop Report
    (2011-03-23) McGee, John; Welch, Von; Almes, Guy T.
    This report summarizes the discussion at and findings of a workshop on the software and services aspects of cyberinfrastructure as they apply to campus bridging. The workshop took a broad view of software and services, including services in the business sense of the word, such as user support, in addition to information technology services. Specifically, the workshop addressed the following two goals: * Suggest common elements of software stacks widely usable across the nation/world to promote interoperability/economy of scale; and * Suggested policy documents that any research university should have in place.
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    A Roadmap for Using NSF Cyberinfrastructure with InCommon: Abbreviated Version
    (2011-03) Barnett, William; Welch, Von; Walsh, Alan; Stewart, Craig A.
    This document provides a Roadmap for using the InCommon identity federation to enable researchers to access NSF cyberinfrastructure (CI) via their campus authentication service. It presents benefits and challenges of using InCommon for NSF cyberinfrastructure, and guidance in overcoming the challenges. This document is an abbreviated version of the whole Roadmap, omitting sections B and C to focus on issues of interest to campus and project leadership. The complete document can be found at http://www.incommon.org/nsfroadmap.html
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    A Roadmap for Using NSF Cyberinfrastructure with InCommon
    (2011-03) Barnett, William; Welch, Von; Walsh, Alan; Stewart, Craig A.
    This document provides a Roadmap for using the InCommon identity federation to enable researchers to access NSF cyberinfrastructure (CI) via their campus authentication service. It presents benefits and challenges of using InCommon for NSF cyberinfrastructure, and guidance in overcoming the challenges.