EPSCoR - Cyberinfrastructure

Research Computing Group: IT Services for Researchers

The CCB's Research Computing Group (RCG) aims to provide affordable IT infrastructure to researchers. This is a collaborative effort between the CCB, ITC and the Office of the Vice President for Research to provide additional research-specific resources that lie outside the scope of ITC services.

Cyberinfrastructure

In order for researchers and the public to address problems related to ecosystems, especially climate change, collection and analysis of huge, complex, heterogeneous data sets will be required, as well as shared access to distributed data sources that already exist or that are being collected through other research programs. With that in mind, the cyberinfrastructure (CI) activities supported by MT EPSCoR provide essential baseline CI advising, training and support for researchers engaged in the core science projects and work to develop a much more global, comprehensive, state-wide plan for establishing and maintaining an effective research cyberinfrastructure.

Efforts are cooridnated through the Research Computing Group at MSU and High Performance Computing Group at The University of Montana.

VOEIS: A Model System for Environmental Data Management

Jointly supported by Montana NSF EPSCoR and Kentucky NSF EPSCoR, VOEIS (Virtual Observatory and Ecological Information System) was designed to meet the data control, curation, sharing and publication needs typical to research scientists working in the earth sciences. Future Montana Institute on Ecosystems cyberinfrastructure efforts will build upon VOEIS to develop statewide and regional capacity to acquire, manage, visualize, and analyze large, open-access datasets.

The VOEIS Data Hub is ho sted at MSU and supported by scientists in the Research Computing Group.

EPSCoR 2013 / Supported by National Science Foundation Grant EPS-1101342