Overview

Texas A&M has received an award from the National Science Foundation to promote regional Cyber expertise in a multi-institution partnership led by PI Dhruva Chakravorty, Associate Director for User Services & Research at Texas A&M High Performance Research Computing. SWEETER encompasses partners located across Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. It unites a collection of institutions of higher learning, ranging from community colleges to R1 universities. Partners include Texas A&M University, University of Texas at Austin, the two research-extensive institutions in the two major public university systems in Texas. They are joined by Prairie View A&M University, a historically black college or university (HBCU), and five Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs): New Mexico State University, University of Arizona, University of Texas at San Antonio, Texas A&M San Antonio and West Texas A&M University. SWEETER also includes not-for-profits and industrial partners who see how these relationships will benefit researchers. Our goals, as a result, include enabling peer-to-peer research support, organizing on-premise workshops, and building research collaboratives. By leveraging our extensive experience in education and outreach, along with our industry partners, Amazon Web Services and Google, we will touch on the K-12, undergraduate, graduate, researchers and system administrator spheres of training. TAMIDS Director Dr. Nick Duffield will serve as educational coordinator for CC* Team: SWEETER–SouthWest Expertise in Expanding, Training, Education and Research.