Virginia TechCampus Cyberinfrastructure Strategy

Scott F. MidkiffVice President for Information Technology & Chief Information Officer

Virginia Techmidkiff@vt.edu

NSF CC* and CICI Workshop CIO Panel on Campus CI StrategySeptember 26, 2018

Cyberinfrastructure is a pillar in Virginia Tech’s IT strategic plan

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Pillar 2: Providing Competitive Advantage through Sustainable Advanced Cyberinfrastructure and Collaboration

▪ Provide cyberinfrastructure and services at a university scale that give Virginia Tech a competitive advantage through research computing and, in a coordinated manner, to appropriately facilitate HPC at other scales;

▪ Foster innovation in cyberinfrastructure and HPC applications through collaborative efforts across the university and beyond;

▪ Facilitate access to HPC across the university through both computing resource allocations and education and training; and

▪ Nurture a collaborative community of HPC scholars, practitioners, and educators at Virginia Tech.

Virginia Tech IT Strategic Plan, 2012-2018: https://it.vt.edu/content/dam/it_vt_edu/strategic-documents/Virginia_Tech_IT_Strategic_Plan_2012-2018-v1-1-2013-06-12.pdf

CIO Panel on Campus CI Strategy

Meeting cyberinfrastructure challenges

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▪ “Big data”• VT-Research Network (NSF CC*DNI Award 1541338)

o Remove barriers for large data transfers within and beyond campus

o 10-Gbps connectivity to research users in 24 locations in 11 buildings

o Connections provided based on an RFP process

• VT-Archive large-scale archival storage

▪ Diverse compute workloads• Huckleberry GPU cluster for deep learning

▪ Compliance and security• NIST 800-171 and PHI compliance secure

research environments

• IT and data compliance consultationsVirginia Tech Advanced Research Computing: https://www.arc.vt.edu/

VT-Research Network

Lynchburg

Jefferson Lab

VT NCR

VT CRI

Radford

VMASC

MREX-ATLANTA

MREX-DC

VT

UVA

ODU

VCUW&M

JMU

GMU

MARIA: Mid-Atlantic Research Infrastructure Alliance

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MARIA Member/Affiliate

Research and Education Exchange

▪ Virginia universities collaborate to share cyberinfrastructure resources and expertise• Statewide network partnership with MBC• Private optical networks• Research Computing Technical Committee

▪ Research and Education Exchanges inDC and Atlanta• Access to Internet2, national and international

research networks• Direct peering with content and cloud service

providers• Low-cost commodity services

MARIA: http://www.marialliance.net/