1. Panel: Building the NRP Ecosystem - What Campuses Need To Support Them Being Involved In The NRP
Dana Brunson
XSEDE Campus Engagement co-manager
Asst. VP for Research Cyberinfrastructure
Director, High Performance Computing Center
Oklahoma State University

2. Challenges into Opportunities
Not enough research computing or networking people on campuses
Not enough collaboration between campus IT and research (especially where research computing is not in central IT)
Not enough collaboration between networking experts and research computing facilitators
(Also need more collaborations with information security and library communities)

3. How we got there - state & regional collaboration:
OK State: 100G at border, multiple 10G connections to research computing (including DTNs), deploying 100G FIONA
How we got there - state & regional collaboration:
2008: NSF EPSCoR RII Track 1: $15M, OCII formed via MOU
2010: NSF EPSCoR RII C2 (OU+OSU+TU+LU+Noble+OneNet): $1.17M
2013: NSF EPSCoR RII Track 1: $20M, OneOCII (expanded OCII)
2013: NSF CC-NIE “OFFN” (OU+OSU+LU+OII+UCO+OneNet): $500K
2014: NSF CC*IIE CI Engineer (OU): $400K
2014: NSF CC*IIE (OneNet+GPN): $130K
2017: NSF CC* “MORe OFFN” (RSU, SE, SWOSU, NSU): $334K
2018: GPN-RP Collaboration – FIONAs + Community of networking and research computing people
How did we do this? People joining the weekly calls – it’s really that simple (not really, they also have to care and pitch in once in a while)
Challenge: Researcher computing staff is small and doesn’t have extra time to do much extra evangelizing of the network after the culture of firewalls. Many schools have even fewer people than we do…
OneOCII: Created via MOU in OK’s NSF EPSCoR RII Track , then expanded under OK’s RII Track Every academic in the state gets to use resources for free!
EPSCoR RII’s no longer emphasize CI as much as they used to.
GPN CI committee has been meeting for about a decade – so relationships were in place when the RP opportunity came up and James came on board.
James took OneOCII model to GPN – and it took everything up several notches.

5. Campus Champions
Research computing community facilitating computing- and data-intensive research and education
Champions help their local researchers and educators find and use the advanced digital services that best meet their needs; and,
Champions share CI challenges and solutions
Every state and EPSCoR jurisdiction!
With support from:

6. AsynchronousChampions (CY 2017)
Longest Threads in 2017
Data Management Initiatives on YOUR Campus - TGR/TGW?
Adjusted Peak Performance for HPC clusters
OS flavors in HPC
HPC systems login access only with VPN -- good idea?
AMD EPYC and Intel Skylake Pricing Extremes
Theoretical Peak Performance
Champions-style job board?
CephFS for HPC?
Successful Scheduling
Xeon Phi on Motherboard
cgroups Memory Leak in RHEL 6/7.x
Advice needed -- Gaussian software on an HPC
sysadmin internships for undergrads?
On Evaluation of Cluster Security and Patching
Cluster Environment Monitoring
Service ticketing/tracking software
HPC Steering Committee
If you had $50K...
University risk due to using external computing resources
Cloud Costing for NSF
High School Student Looking for HPC
cloud vs local cluster stats
Memory leak in VASP (GPU)?
Origins of the Data Management Plan
New Campus Champion
Onboarding of HPC users & its challenges
How to submit an extension via XRAS
AsynchronousChampions (CY 2017)
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7. Campus Champions & Friends: Community of Communities
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