1. Cyberinfrastructure from scratch presented at University of Wyoming Laramie WY 19 May 2016
Dr. Craig A. Stewart
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Executive Director, Indiana University Pervasive Technology Institute; Associate Dean, Research Technologies; Adjunct Professor, School of Informatics and Computing

2. Please cite as
Stewart, C.A. (2016). Cyberinfrastructure from scratch. Presented at University of Wyoming Laramie WY 19 May Retrieved from ###___
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3. 1) A bit about me
Associate Dean for Research Technologies, Executive Director of Pervasive Technology Institute, IU
Evolutionary biologist / physiologist by training
Professional staff member in the computing center at IU since 1985
Responsible for since 1996, all research IU since 2005
I really love working in an academic environment

4. 3) Top Five Six significant events in CI at IU
1955. Marshall Wrubel appointed as director of IU Research Computing Center
1997. Arrival of Michael A. McRobbie as first VP for Information Technology and University
IU goal: To be a leader, “in absolute terms for uses and applications of IT” (Myles Brand, 16th President of IU)
1997. First display at SCxy conference
“Why does IU have a display at this conference?”
2001. First MRI award post-MAM arrival – AVIDD
2003. Funded involvement in TeraGrid
2008. PolarGrid

5. 2) Top Five Six Seven things needed to launch a successful CI / research computing effort
Important problems from leading faculty members
Local expert consultant (s)
Some local hardware that people can visit in person
Willingness to use nationally funded CI (and my advice is start with OSG and Jetstream)
Deep commitment to university mission
Administrative support at highest possible level
Someone irrationally devoted to learning how to write competitive grant proposals
Get people on as many review panels as you can manage: Good kharma, Good learning experiences

6. Harrowing and rewarding moments
Funding continuity (”I never worry about funding continuity because I worry about funding continuity constantly” – Andrew Lumsdaine)
People on the bus
Cynics
Those who think base funding gives them protection
Hacks where PHI is involved
NSF relationships
Rewarding
Playing a supporting role in scientific discovery, scholarship, and artistic creation
Looking back and seeing the impact of change over time

7. Jetstream-cloud.org
Provide "self-serve" academic cloud services, enabling researchers or students to select a VM image from a published library, or alternatively to create or customize their own virtual environments
Host persistent Science Gateways. Galaxy will be one of the initial science gateways supported.
Data movement, storage and dissemination.
Jetstream will support data transfer with Globus Connect.
Users can store VMs in the IUScholarWorks and obtain a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) that is associated with the VM stored.
Provide virtual Linux desktop services delivered from Jetstream to tablet devices. This service is aimed to increase access to Jetstream for users at institutions with limited resources.

8. We Live the Myth of Sisyphus
"The struggle itself...is enough to fill a [person’s] heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”
–Albert Camus

9. Thanks to the partner institutions who are making Jetstream possible!

10. Acknowledgments Jetstream is supported by: NSF award 1445604
Indiana University Pervasive Technology Institute
Thanks to everyone in the IU Pervasive Technology Institute
For more information about the Indiana University Pervasive Technology Institute in general see pti.iu.edu
For more information on Jetstream see jetstream-cloud.org