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Introduction to Minority-Serving Institution (MSI) Cyberinfrastructure (CI) Empowerment Coalition (MSI-CIEC)
To build and enhance the social and technological mechanisms for meaningful engagement of MSIs in cyberinfrastructure (CI).
MSI-CIEC is an alliance of
- the American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC) ,
- the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU) and
- the National Association for Equal Opportunity in higher education (NAFEO)
representing over 335 MSIs, Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs), Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) and Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs),nearly every MSI in the country. Also see Who we are for more information and why is this important.
What is Cyberinfrastuture?
Fran Berman, Director, San Diego Supercompuer Center (SDSC), gives an insightful Introduction to Cyberinfrastructure and Grids at the MSI Cyberinfrastructure Institute, (archived at the Cyberinfrastructure Channel, RealPlayer required). (Apologies for this video because it recorded in black and white for most of the presentation when we momentarily lost chrominance on our s-video connection.)
Also, see
- NSF Office of Cyberinfrastructure, Cyberinfrastructure Vision for 21st Century Discovery
- Revolutionizing Science and Engineering through Cyberinfrastructure, NSF Blue-Ribbon Advisory Panel Report on Cyberinfrastructure (the Atkins Report), 2003;
- a brief NSF Special Report on Cyberinfrastructure, 2006;
- Grid Computing: Making the Global Infrastructure a Reality, Berman, Fox and Hey, 2003;
- The Grid: Blueprint for a New Computing Infrastructure, Foster and Kesselman, (The Grid, 1999, The Grid 2, 2003);
- various reports on cyberinfrastructure in different fields; and
- NSF Director Ardent Bement's article in the Chronicle of Higher Education (issue dated January 5, 2007) on the Second IT Revolution.
Funded by the National Science Foundation, Office of Cyberinfrastructure, CI-TEAM program award number 0636352.
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