Bridging 2013 - Campus Bridging: Community Workshop

Campus Bridging: Community Workshop
Richard Knepper, Craig Stewart and Barbara Hallock.
Campus bridging enables virtual proximity ? that is, it connects a scientist’s personal computing systems with the computing systems of other scientists at the regional, national, and international levels. By doing so, campus bridging promotes better and easier use of the nation’s collective cyberinfrastructure resources.
“At its heart, campus bridging is a mindset. It creates seamless virtual proximity, so scientists can work from their laptop and have it feel as if all these cyberinfrastructure resources are a peripheral to that laptop,” said Craig Stewart, Cluster 13 general chair and PTI executive director. “This workshop will foster discussion among people who have experience with campus bridging efforts. From that, we will create a report summarizing the state of the art and identifying emerging challenges and needs.”
Conference organizers are soliciting position papers, no longer than five pages, that address one of two topics:
1. Experiences, good or bad, with implementing campus bridging initiatives: The campus bridging community is interested in discovering what works and learning which pitfalls to avoid.
2. Needs and requirements to improve campus bridging efforts: These can include data movement, job submission, collaboration and research workflow management technologies that enable researchers to easily move their analyses and data to larger resources.