Indiana University’s advanced cyberinfrastructure in service of IU strategic goals: Activities of the Research Technologies Division of UITS and National Center for Genome Analysis Support – two Pervasive Technology Institute cyberinfrastructure and service centers - during FY2014

Abstract

This report presents information on the activities of the Research Technologies Division of UITS and the National Center for Genome Analysis Support, two cyberinfrastructure and service centers of the Pervasive Technology Institute. Research Technologies (RT) is a subunit of University Information Technology Services (UITS) and it operates and supports the largest computational, data, and visualization systems at IU. The National Center for Genome Analysis Support (NCGAS) is primarily federally funded, serving the national community of genome scientists. NCGAS leadership is drawn from the Office of the Vice President for Information Technology, UITS, the College, and the School of Informatics and Computing. This report focuses on contributions of RT and NCGAS to accomplishment of IU’s bicentennial goals, and is organized according to those goals. Together the activities of NCGAS and RT represent a large share of the activities of PTI in support of the IU community. PTI’s Research Centers (Data to Insight Center, Digital Science Center, and the Center for Applies Cybersecurity Research) also provide support to the IU community in various forms but the primary focus of these research centers is informatics, information technology, and computer science research.