Supporting the NRP with a Lean CI Staff
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This document discusses Montana State University's approach to supporting research networking with a lean CI staff. Key points: - MSU has a small IT budget and CI staff of 2 FTE to support research networking for over 16,000 students and faculty. - The NSF CCDNI program was critical for funding MSU's Bridger research network, providing 40% of the annual IT capital budget. - As an early adopter, MSU keeps its network architecture simple and leverages support from the national CI community rather than going it alone. - MSU partners with vendors like Cisco to help support its research networking beyond what its small staff could provide alone.
Supporting the NRP with a Lean CI Staff
- 1. Supporting the NRP with a Lean CI Staff Jerry Sheehan, Vice President and Chief Information Officer Montana State University August 8, 2017
- 2. Montana State, A LEAN CI Approach • Campus is 16,440 students, 1,302 faculty and 2,016 staff • Core Information Technology Budget is ~$14M with 75 FTE • Research Cyberinfrastructure Staff: 2 FTE, positions a combination of technical and outreach • RCI supports: Community HPC cluster, Collaboration environments, and the Bridger research network • Networking Staff is 3 FTE for 35,000 (20K wireless, 15K wired) devices
- 3. Where is Data Intensive Research Networking in the Higher Education Technology Adoption Curve ? Image from: Hoonuit.com, Understanding the Technology Curve in Education,blog.atmoiclearning.com
- 4. The Day Job of the CIO • The Primary Decision that CIOs make are Economic – Limited resources (financial and personnel) and unlimited demand (commoditized technology/user needs and wants) • The Smaller the Size of the Campus the More Sensitive Each Resource Allocation Decision Becomes • Smaller Research Intensive Campuses and other Universities can be Early Adopters if there is a Demand for Services • Research Networking Suffers Across All Campuses Because Most Scientists Don’t Know What’s Possible
- 5. Research Data Census for Montana State Source: Data Intensive Science and Campus IT, Educause Review 2015, see http://er.educause.edu/articles/2015/9/data-intensive-science-and-campus-it
- 6. The Importance of the NSF CCDNI Program • Impossible to Implement our Campus Science Network Without this NSF Program • NSF Investment of $470K for the Bridger Project Would be 40% of My Annual IT Capital Budget. • The CCDNI Project Enabled Montana State: • Work with a systems architect, not on our staff, to design a no out of pocket cost to us our campus-wide networking approach to research data • Pull together our research community who had data needs, but didn’t know how the network could help address these issues
- 7. Early Adopters with Lean CI-Keep It Simple • As an Early Adopter vs Being an Innovator It’s Important to Keep Your Network Architecture Simple • There are Things We Won’t Adopt Until Others Have Done the Heavy Lifting of Figuring out How and Clarifying the Value Proposition • IPv4 to v6 • CCDNI Calls Have a Tension to Them With This Approach, Need to Show Value of Federal Investment (What Science), but More Science Drivers Lead to Increased Complexity
- 8. Early Adopters Can Rely on The National CI Community • Montana State Relies on the National CI Community for Support and Leverages Existing NSF Investments for This Purpose, No Need to Go It Alone • PRP for Support for Research Data Collaborations, Human Capital, and Hardware Design, Like the FIONA • National perfSONAR end points for testing (es.net/sdsc/uhnet/gigapop) • Globus for Identity Management, Graceful Large File Transfer, and Data on Net Data Movement • Cybinf-engr listserv run by ESnet
- 9. The Vendor Partnership • A Lean CI Approach Makes it Imperative to Have Partnerships with the Private Sector, Not Just Vendor Relationships • CISCO has Been An Exceptional Partner for Montana State University. – Technical architecture assistance for the Science DMZ – Help in the technical review and red team of our NSF CCDNI proposal • Excited to Announce This Relationship is Advancing to the Next Level with a Montana State/Cisco Partnership for Research Networking
Editor's Notes
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