BRICCs-Pathways
Overview
The project BRICCs-Pathways: Establishing Pathways for Regional Computing aims to provide advanced cyberinfrastructure (CI) resources to support research and education at two-year institutions, particularly community colleges. This initiative builds on previous BRICCs efforts and focuses on developing regional computing models that can be scaled and shared across institutions in Texas. BRICCs-Pathways addresses the common needs of community colleges, such as data storage, access, and analysis, by creating collaborative frameworks that enable these institutions to participate in large-scale computing.
Our Purpose
The purpose of BRICCs-Pathways is to establish sustainable models for advancing cyberinfrastructure at community colleges and smaller institutions. The project seeks to:
- Promote collaboration between two-year institutions and other stakeholders like state agencies, four-year universities, and national CI centers.
- Analyze network models and explore funding mechanisms for successful implementation of CI.
- Assist institutions in securing resources for CI through partnerships and shared knowledge.
- Balance network security with research and educational needs.
- Make advanced computing accessible to students and researchers at these institutions.
- The project will generate reports, studies, and recommendations to support broader adoption of CI across the academic community.
PI/Co-PI Team
- Dhruva Chakravorty (Principal Investigator, Texas A&M University)
- Sarah Janes (Co-Principal Investigator, San Jacinto College)
- Tabitha Samuel (Co-Principal Investigator, National Institute for Computational Sciences)
- Honggao Liu (Co-Principal Investigator, Texas A&M University)
- Lisa Perez (Co-Principal Investigator, Texas A&M University)
- Amy Schultz (Co-Principal Investigator, Lonestar Education and Research Network)
This project is supported by NSF award number 2346751