What is campus bridging and what is XSEDE doing about it?

Authors:
Craig A. Stewart;Richard Knepper;James Ferguson;Felix Bachmann;Ian Foster;Andrew Grimshaw;Victor Hazlewood;David Lifka
Affiliations:
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN;Indiana University, Bloomington, IN;University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Oak Ridge, TN;Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA;The University of Chicago, Argonne, IL;University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA;University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Oak Ridge, TN;Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Venue:
Proceedings of the 1st Conference of the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment: Bridging from the eXtreme to the campus and beyond
Year:
2012

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Abstract

The term "campus bridging" was first used in the charge given to an NSF Advisory Committee for Cyberinfrastructure task force. That task force developed this description of campus bridging: "Campus bridging is the seamlessly integrated use of cyberinfrastructure operated by a scientist or engineer with other cyberinfrastructure on the scientist's campus, at other campuses, and at the regional, national, and international levels as if they were proximate to the scientist, and when working within the context of a Virtual Organization (VO) make the 'virtual' aspect of the organization irrelevant (or helpful) to the work of the VO." Campus bridging is more a viewpoint and a set of approaches to usability, software, and information concerns than a particular set of tools or software. We outline here several specific use cases that have been identified as priorities for XSEDE in the next four years. These priorities include documentation, deployment of software used entirely outside of XSEDE, and software that helps bridge from individual researcher to campus to XSEDE cyberinfrastructure. We also describe early pilot tests and means by which the user community may stay informed of campus bridging activities and participate in the implementation of Campus Bridging tools created by XSEDE. Metrics are still being developed, and will include (1) the number of campuses that adopt and use Campus Bridging tools developed by XSEDE and (2) the number of and extent to which XSEDE-developed Campus Bridging tools are adopted among other CI projects.