Effective Research Computing Support Strategy
Establishing a central hub for research computing support at Binghamton University, gathering people and resources campus-wide, and addressing challenges to ensure successful collaboration among researchers and management. The vision is to provide computational solutions to researchers by pooling physical resources, offering support for various applications, and emphasizing the importance of buy-in from stakeholders to start small and scale effectively.
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CIO Leadership Academy Applied Learning Project
Establishing a Department for Research Computing Support Phillip Valenta - Binghamton University
Vision Statement Establish a centralized hub for research computing support, serving as a comprehensive resource for researchers seeking computational solutions.
Gathering People - Challenge History of difficulty identifying people resources 4 Colleges, 3 Schools Lots of people across campus supporting research, many more doing research
Gathering People Gather those supporting research from across campus Identify who has what strengths Two initial groups, hardware and software Many sub-groups can descend from those non-traditional IT, ie Library
Physical Resources Compute Hardware is located throughout campus Instances this is appropriate Data acquisition Potential for greater use if the resource was pooled
Physical Resources ITS - New Research Storage and compute environment Data-center space available to house research systems Watson - Spiedie HPC. Virtual and Storage environments Spiedie available for all Other dedicated to Watson
Applications Commercial MATLAB, ANSYS, Mathematica Open Source or free license required Python, LAMMPS, VASP, Quantum Espresso Need to offer support
Overall Challenges Groups that don t want to share Establishing a department might not be the first step Have to get buy-in from researchers, upper management, fiscal support
Start small... Start with a collaboration of people resources Prior attempts for something big were not successful Document the need, showcase to upper management Present a plan for the next steps (Department/Center)
Plan Big Combined effort of personnel will show the need Unify researchers to support the plan Ensure that potential fiscal support is there Grants from RF, University Support to go after grants
Could we not? We could not. Stay the course, its worked, right? The Path to Premier is not staying the course
