Connect.CI

Connect.Cyberinfrastructure is a family of portals, each representing a program that is serving a segment of the research computing and data community. Each portal provides program-specific information, as well a custom "view" into a common database. The portal was originally developed to support project workflows and a knowledge base of self service learning resources for the Northeast Cyberteam. Subsequently, it was expanded to provide support to multiple cyberteams and other research computing communities of practice. We welcome additional communities, please contact us if you are interested in participating. Central to the Portal is an extensive and ever-evolving tagging infrastructure which informs every aspect of the Portal. The tag taxonomy was initially developed by the Northeast Cyberteam to categorize subject matter relevant to practitioners of Research Computing Facilitation and is ever changing due to the frequent introduction of new technology in domains that characterize the field of research computing.

Programs

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CAREERS Cyberteam
 Connecticut, Delaware, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island
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Great Plains Cyberteam
 Missouri, Oklahoma, Kansas, Arkansas, Nebraska, South Dakota
Affiliates in Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota
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Kentucky Cyberteam
 Kentucky, Ohio
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Northeast Cyberteam
 Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont
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RMACC
 Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, Arizona, Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Montana, Washington
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SWEETER Cyberteam
 Texas, New Mexico, Arizona
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TRECIS Cyberteam
 Texas
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MINES Research Computing
 Colorado
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Campus Champions | Under Development
 Nationwide

Affinity Groups

Affinity Groups encourage community members to gather based on common interests such as discipline, technology interests/needs or proximity. Read more about them in the FAQ.

ArcGIS Users
 People who are users or supporting users of ArcGIS and other geographic information system tools.
Ask.CI Moderators
 Site Moderators and Locale Moderators for the Ask.CI Q&A platform for Research Computing. Site Moderators meet weekly and Locale Moderators meet monthly. New participants welcome!
Campus Champions Regions 1-8
 Collaboratively employing advanced computing and data to tackle society’s grand challenges.
Cloud Computing
 People who use or are considering the use of cloud resources for research computing.
Connect CI Alliance
 People who have or are thinking about adding a Portal View on Connect.Cyberinfrastructure.org
Quantum Computing
 Researchers and enthusiasts interested in discussing quantum computing topics.
R for HPC
 People who use r on HPC systems and want to exchange experiences, best practices and/or collaborate.
Small Scale Research Computing Groups
 A group for people supporting small scale HPC groups at their institution.
XSEDE Facilitators
 People who use or support people who use XSEDE resources and the XSEDE Resource Allocation System.
CAREERS Cyberteam
Great Plains Cyberteam
Kentucky Cyberteam
MINES Cyberteam
Northeast Cyberteam
RMACC Cyberteam
SWEETER Cyberteam
Texas Cyberteam

Affinity Groups

Joining ACCESS Resource Provider Affinity Groups (AGs) will add you to the distribution list for notifications about outages, news, and training events specific to the Resource Provider named. Affinity Groups encourage community members to gather based on common interests, and they provide connections to AG-specific slack channels, Q&A Forums, events, and relevant knowledge base resources.
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Account and Access Management CI Facilitators

A group for CI and RCD professionals responsible for the Account and Access Management solutions at their institutions. Participants can share and discuss the approaches they use for managing accounts, usage tracking and allocations.
ACES Accelerating Computing for Emerging Sciences

ACES

Accelerating Computing for Emerging Sciences (ACES) is a NSF-Category II-funded test bed (award number 2112356) that offers state of the art GPUs and other novel accelerators in a composable environment.
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CCMNet Mentors

Cyberinfrastructure Community-Wide Mentorship Network
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HPC Ontologies and Metadata

For groups and people working to build a set of standardized minimal HPC ontologies and metadata.
 

The CSSN (Computational Science Support Network)

CSSN (Computational Science Support Network)

The CSSN are active members of the research support community who share their expertise and get notifications of community opportunities.
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ACCESS RP Integration

ACCESS RPs and ACCESS RP Coordinator space for information dissemination and discussion.
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ACCESS Support

Become an ACCESS Support insider by joining our affinity group.

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AI Institutes Cyberinfrastructure

Gathering place for AI researchers to find curated information about using ACCESS resources for AI applications and research.

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High Performance Visualization

This affinity group will work to strengthen understanding and dissemination of best practices related to visualization and rendering of data on HPC systems. A focus here will be on remote visualization techniques, and low level headless rendering strategies.
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hpc.social

High Performance Computing and related fields such as Big Data, Research Computing, and related hardware and software engineering and development, cloud and data center operations, and career development.
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Small Scale Research Computing Groups

A group for people supporting small scale HPC groups at their institution. 

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Campus Champions

The Campus Champions comprise a thriving community of practice for research computing, data and software professionals.
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Anvil

Purdue University is the home of Anvil, a powerful new supercomputer that provides advanced computing capabilities to support a wide range of computational and data-intensive research spanning from traditional high-performance computing to modern artificial intelligence applications.
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Bridges-2

Bridges-2, a resource of Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, is designed for converged HPC + AI + Data.

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DARWIN

DARWIN (Delaware Advanced Research Workforce and Innovation Network) is a big data and high performance computing system designed to catalyze Delaware research and education funded by a $1.4 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
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DELTA

DELTA is a dedicated, ACCESS-allocated resource designed by HPE and NCSA, delivering a highly capable GPU-focused compute environment for GPU and CPU workloads.
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Expanse

Expanse is a dedicated ACCESS cluster designed by Dell and SDSC delivering 5.16 peak petaflops, and will offer Composable Systems and Cloud Bursting.
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FASTER

Fostering Accelerated Scientific Transformations, Education, and Research (FASTER) is a NSF-MRI-funded cluster (award number 2019129) that offers state of the art CPUs, GPUs, and NVMe (Non-Volatile MemoryExpress) based storage in a composable environment.
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Jetstream-2

Jetstream2 is a transformative update to the NSF’s science and engineering cloud infrastructure and provides 8 petaFLOPS of supercomputing power to simplify data analysis, boost discovery, and increase availability of AI resources. It is an NSF-funded, user-friendly cloud environment designed to allow “always on” research infrastructure and to give researchers access to interactive computing and data analysis resources on demand, whenever and wherever they want to analyze their data.
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KyRIC

The KyRIC cluster will advance several exciting research programs across many disciplines, such as Bioinformatics and System Biology Algorithms, Large Graph and Evolutionary Network Analysis, Image Processing, and Computational Modeling and Simulation.
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OOKAMI

Ookami is a computer technology testbed supported by the National Science Foundation under grant OAC 1927880. It provides researchers with access to the A64FX processor developed by Riken and Fujitsu for the Japanese path to exascale computing and is currently deployed in the until June 2022 fastest computer in the world, Fugaku.
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Open Science Grid

The OSG provides technologies and services for supporting pools of distributed high-throughput computing (dHTC) and data capacity that serve a number of research communities, worldwide. Among these services, the OSG operates the Open Science Pool (OSPool), which includes capacity contributed from clusters at campuses and national labs across and beyond the US, organized as a single virtual cluster.
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Open Storage Network

The Open Storage Network (OSN) is a distributed data sharing and transfer service intended to facilitate exchanges of active scientific data sets between research organizations, communities and projects, providing easy access and high bandwidth delivery of large data sets to researchers.
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RANCH

TACC's High Performance Computing (HPC) systems are used primarily for scientific computing and while their disk systems are large, they are unable to store the long-term final data generated on these systems. The Ranch archive system fills this need for high capacity long-term storage, by providing a massive high performance file system and tape-based backing store designed, implemented, and supported specifically for archival purposes.
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Rockfish

Johns Hopkins University's Rockfish is a community-shared cluster at Johns Hopkins University. It follows the "condominium model" with three main integrated units.
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Stampede2

Stampede2, generously funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) through award ACI-1540931, is one of the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), University of Texas at Austin's flagship supercomputers.
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Ask.CI Moderators

Site Moderators and Locale Moderators for the Ask.CI Q&A platform for Research Computing.

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ACCESS Facilitators

People who use or support people who use ACCESS resources and the ACCESS Resource Allocation System.

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Cloud Computing

People who use or are considering the use of cloud resources for research computing.

 

 

ConnectCI

Connect CI Alliance

People who have or are thinking about adding a Portal View on Connect.Cyberinfrastructure.org

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Cybersecurity

For people whose work is impacted by cybersecurity regulations.

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Large Data Sets

For people who evaluate or use storage options for researchers with large data sets. 

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Open OnDemand

For users and facilitators of Open OnDemand. Open OnDemand provides an intuitive, innovative, and interactive interface to remote computing resources. Open OnDemand helps computational researchers and students efficiently utilize remote computing resources by making them easy to access from any device.
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Pegasus

Pegasus is a workflow management system, which enables you to run computational workflows across ACCESS resources.

NSF Cyberinfrastructure Professionals

NSF Cyberinfrastructure Professionals

People involved with the NSF-funded CyberTraining CIP class awards or Strengthening the Cyberinfrastructure Professionals Ecosystem (SCIPE) program

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R for HPC

People who use r on HPC systems and want to exchange experiences, best practices and/or collaborate.

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Quantum Computing

Researchers and enthusiasts interested in discussing quantum computing topics.

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RMACC/Campus Champions Region 8

Affinity group representing the Rocky Mountain Advanced Computing Consortium and the legacy Campus Champions Region 8.
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Campus Champions Region 1

Affinity group for legacy Campus Champions Region 1 covering Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington State.

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Campus Champions Region 2

Affinity group for legacy Campus Champions Region 2 covering Arizona, California, Hawaii, and Nevada.

Campus Champions Region 3

Campus Champions Region 3

Affinity group for legacy Campus Champions Region 3 covering Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota and Wisconsin.

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Campus Champions Region 4

Affinity group for legacy Campus Champions Region 4, covering Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Texas.

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Campus Champions Region 5

Affinity group for legacy Campus Champions Region 5 covering Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee

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Campus Champions Region 6

Affinity group for legacy Campus Champions Region 6, covering Delaware, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virg

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Campus Champions Region 7

Affinity group for legacy Campus Champions Region 7 covering Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island and Verm

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