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Cyberinfrastructure

Technology at the University to accelerate research, enhance discovery, and improve scholarly productivity.

"Cyberinfrastructure (or, "CI") is a fabric of highly-connected systems for information and data acquisition, visualization, computing, storage, and associated human expertise serving end-to-end scientific and engineering workflows to improve scholarly productivity and enable breakthroughs not otherwise possible."

- NSF

An emerging program for research technology support

As the University moves to a Carnegie R1 operating tempo, the institution is setting the stage for collaborative cyberinfrastructure development that engages across administration, academic divisions and research disciplines. Research & Innovation, the and the faculty-led Cyberinfrastructure Committee are working together to provide effective technology infrastructure and support to meet the dynamic needs of research, scholarly and creative activities across campus.

National research funding agencies such as the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Science Foundation (NSF), and Department of Energy (DoE) the critical role that technology plays in and engineering work. These organizations have pioneered large-scale cyberinfrastructure in the form of and , and are now guiding efforts to coordinate investment in research technology support at all scales.

In keeping with these national developments, a robust and sustainable cyberinfrastructure remains essential for research efforts at the University to maintain the highest standards of scholarship, increase in scale and efficiency, and lead in scientific discovery.

Get involved!

Building the cyberinfrastructure we need at the University requires a new approach to investment and planning across lab, department, school, college, and institutional boundaries. While CI is currently being coordinated from within the Office of Information Technology, all research units are stakeholders. Investments in technology and human expertise are decadal in scale, transcending grant cycles and state budgets.

The cyberinfrastructure plan

The faculty Campus CI Committee has created and approved a strategic document that outlines the scope and plan for cyberinfrastructure at the University. We welcome you to view this planning document and provide feedback.

Governance

Core cyberinfrastructure is currently financed by a combination of funds from the Office of Information Technology (OIT), the Office of Research and Innovation (R&I), generous donations, and extramural grants. Individual researchers, departments, and colleges can also participate to increase their dedicated resources within the cyberinfrastructure technology services portfolio with help from the cyberinfrastructure team.

Cybersecurity

The University’s strategic approach to cybersecurity is a policy-driven data classification methodology, combined with strong technical safeguards and proactive user engagement with campus . This allows deployment of clear and concise data policies, along with an agile data governance environment, to provide a secure and adaptable framework for increasing the ability to do research on both regulated and non-regulated data. Information Security partners with our academic Cybersecurity Center to enhance training and education.

Training and education

Learn more about cyberinfrastructure at the University and get both the training and education you need. Watch this space for future training opportunities and announcements!

Cyberinfrastructure news

The latest news and events from the University of Â鶹ӳ»­'s Cyberinfrastructure Department.

Four men standing on an outdoor stairwell in front of the Pennington Engineering Building.

Power on

New testing instrument, only one of its kind in Â鶹ӳ»­, allows College of Engineering to expand research into power grids

Heavy smoke filled the skies above Lake Tahoe during the Caldor Fire in 2021

Â鶹ӳ»­ receives $20 million National Science Foundation research award for fire science

NSF EPSCoR investment will increase capacity for wildland fire research, education, and workforce development

Graham Kent visiting the site of the 2020 Valley Fire in Southern California

Research technology transforms how first responders fight fires

Video highlights technology and thought-leadership behind ALERTWildfire, developed through the Â鶹ӳ»­ Seismological Laboratory