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This lightning talk discusses two ways for campuses to extend their cyberinfrastructure capabilities and broaden offerings for researchers: toolkits from the XSEDE Cyberinfrastructure Resource Integration team, and the Campus Compute Cooperative group.
Campus resources, local clusters and storage, networking, and consulting, are the basic foundation for computational resources. Campus IT staff encounter challenges with implementing, maintaining, and extending these resources. Organizations such as XSEDE provide means for disseminating best practices, expertise, and configurations from national resources to campuses. The integration activities of XSEDE Cyberinfrastructure Integration group help campus IT professionals to implement and extend their local cyberinfrastructure in ways that allow researchers to leverage beyond the local to the national.
Likewise, the Campus Compute Co-Operative project is in the process of building an exchange in which members can use resources at other institutions, either through exchange of like resources or through payments. The cooperative allows a campus to volunteer resources that may be in excess supply in exchange for resources at other institutions that may have particular capabilities that are required. The cooperative allows its members to make use of a broader range of resources without forcing each campus to acquire all types of resources that may be in demand, extending the range of capabilities for members.
