Paper Featured at PEARC21 Outlines Expansion of Cyberinfrastructure Portal
July 21, 2021
HOLYOKE, Mass., July 21, 2021 – A cyberinfrastructure portal developed for the National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded Northeast Cyberteam (NECT) has found utility in several programs in the research computing and data community, according to a paper chosen by PEARC21 as “Best Short Paper for the Workforce Development, Training, Diversity, and Education Track.” The paper will be featured at the virtual PEARC21 conference that runs July 19th through July 22nd.
The Connect.Cyberinfrastructure.org (Cnct.CI) Portal, formerly the Cyberteam Portal, was originally developed to support the NECT, which aims to make regional and national cyberinfrastructure more readily accessible to researchers in small and mid-sized institutions in northern New England by providing research computing facilitation support and aggregating access to knowledge resources. A pilot was launched in July 2020 to enable additional cyberteams to utilize Cnct.CI among other key aspects of the Portal and to involve broad participation from the community. In addition, in January of 2021, the leadership team of the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) Campus Champions decided to use the Portal to modernize participant management and onboarding functions. The development team for the portal is primarily made up of students from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) with technical leadership provided by the WPI Advanced Research Computing group and by staff at the University of New Hampshire.