PI NSF Florida Georgia
Louis Stokes Alliance for
Minority Participation
Professor of
Mathematical and
Computer and
Information Sciences
Recipient: US
DOE[NNSA] Samuel P.
Massie Chair of
Excellence in Cyber
Security
Hispanic Engineers
National Awards &
Achievements
Conference 2002
Educator of the Year
4NRP Celebration: The NSF National Research Platform
11:00 AM, February 10, 2023.
PANEL: Reaching More Minority Serving Institutions ONE
RICHARD A. ALÓ Ph.D., Dean, College of Science & Technology

Reaching More Minority Serving Institutions TWO
• MODERATOR: Reaching More MSIs: ¿WHY?
Richard A. Aló, Dean, Science &
Technology Florida A & M University
• TCU Experience: CI Issues at Tribal Colleges/ Universities
Al Anderson, CIO Salish Kootenai
College:
• HSI’. Experience: High-Performance Computing at CSUSB
Samuel Sudhakar, VP & CIO ,
California State Univ.San Bernardino
• The R1/PWI Experience: Road to Empowerment is Slow,
Steady and Deliberate
Jill Gemmill, Executive Director,
Research Computing, Clemson Univ.
• HBCU Experience: Empowering Jackson State University
Deborah Dent, Chief Information
Officer, Jackson State University
• MS-CC: Advancing CI @ HBCUs, TCIUs and other MSIs
Ana Hunsinger, Vice President,
Community Engagement Internet2:

1970 THE FUTURISTS
VISION33
BROADENING PARTICIPATION in STEM
• Time Out for DATA
OUR MSIs
• Who Are They? Where Are They?
Role of Regional Networks
Reinventing the University- The ECONOMIST 6/2014
• Data new currency on Campus
• CyberInfrastructure Development
• New Learning Modalities- Tear Down Wall Between Research
and Teaching; Promotes collaborative diversity
• Discrete Math vs. Calculus
OUTCOMES: National Research Platform provides
• Foundation for Reinventing the University
• Adds an A to STEM
• Significant Path for Broadening Participation in STEAM
Richard A. Aló Ph.D.
Reaching More MSIs: ¿WHY? 3

1970 4
The Tofflers:
Heidi & Alvin:
Futurologists
Social Scientists
• predicted the anxieties of a world
upended by rapidly emerging
technologies
FUTURE SHOCK-1970
• relationships between people and
political and economic structures is
significantly altered by the impact of
new technology.
THIRD WAVE-1980-
Nature of Society
• Knowledge, Wealth, Force at the End of
the Twenty-First Century
• Use of Wealth and Force is available to
the Elite
• KNOWLEDGEIS AVAILABLETONON-ELITEAS
WELL
POWER SHIFT-1990-
Knowledge is Most
Democratic Source of
Power

2014 The ECONOMIST 5
Creative Destruction (cover feature)
• Cost Crisis,
• Changing Labor Markets and
• New Technologies
Treatise: TURNING OLD
INSTITUTION [US
Universities] on its HEAD
Reinventing: NOT EASY BUT promises a better,
more affordable education for more people.
NRP HELPING to REINVENT the UNIVERSITY

VISION. 6
Reduce
Reduce Vast
Underrepresentation
in STEM
Broaden
Add ‘A’ & Broaden
Participation in
STEAM
Work
Work Collaboratively
to Equalize the
Playing Field

¿WHY? 7
¿Do we need to Engage More MSIs?
Broadening Participation in STEM
TIME OUT FOR DATA
richard a. aló,
Dean College of Science and Technology
Florida A & M University

Source: https://ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsb20221/u-s-and-global-stem-education-and-labor-force

USA
China
India
UK
S&E doctoral degrees, by selected
countries: 2000 -2018
Source: https://ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsb20221/u-s-and-global-stem-education-and-labor-force

CST Accolades
Inventors: Dr. Suresh V. K. Eyunni
(Department of Chemistry)
Dr. Kinfe Ken Redda (CoPPS, IPH)
Research team received the following
US Patent No. 16/132,853. Aug 4, 2020.
“Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society
Chapter reestablished
FAMU Premedical Program featured in
Diverse Issues in Higher Education
Dr. Daniel Osborne Professor of Mathematics awarded
the Faculty Generating Prestigious Award.
Also pictured Janei Elliston Mathematics Major is
admitted to the Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics at FSU,
Fall 2020.
Dr. Bereket Mochona was a core leader of the
Florida-California CaRE2 – FAMU Research
Education program.
He is also serving as UF-FAMU ReTOOL
Program Coordinator
Source: https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/FL; : https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US/PST045219; https://ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsf23300/data-tables
69%
13%
18%
US Pop 2016
AA
HLA
54,904 research PHDs awarded in 2016
35,557 to US citizens/Perm Res in 2016; with
1,729 PhD: MATH, STATISTICS, COMPUTER SCI ONLY
10% to HURMs or 172
35,557 in 2016* (%)
10
67%
14%
19%
US Pop 2021
52,250 research PHDs awarded; 5.4% decrease from 2020
31,674 awarded to US citizens/Perm Res in 2021;
1,671 PhD : MATH, STATISTICS, COMPUTER SCI, only 11%
to HURMs or 168
31,674 in 2021* (%)
Research doctorates awarded TEN
AA
HLA

Data shown for AY 2017-2018 (Pew Research Center)
Decrease in Black Male STEM Engagement
Source: https://www.bestcolleges.com/blog/black-male-enrollment/
• Black men have access to fewer financial
resources.
• Black youth are more likely to be suspended
in secondary school
• Black male students lack access to role
models in education.
• College campuses can be racially hostile to
Black men

Pew Research Center 2017-2019
Enrollment for Black students dropped further
during the pandemic.
• Enrollment for Black men dropped 14.3% in
spring 2021 compared to the previous spring,
• Enrollment for Black women fell 6.9% over the
same time period.
(https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2021/09/27/college-
leaders-seek-boost-enrollment-black-men)

Our MSIs
WHO ARE THEY 13
Our Minority Serving Institutions

WHY HBCUs,
HSIs, TCUs?-
Relatively small
percentage of
MSIs serve a
much greater
proportion of
URM students
14
Engaging MSIs-
• Efficient way to INCREASE URMs-next generation of
scientists, engineers.
• Significant Contributions to initiatives on
competitiveness through education/ development of
URMs that excels them in computing
2/6/23 14
ETHNIC
TYPE
US
Institutes
of Higher
Learning
IHLs
% of US
IHLs
% of all
Ethnic
Enrollment
% BS
STEM
degrees
Produced
HSIs 539 17 67 67
HBCUs 107 3 10 25
TCU 32 1.009 0.6

Engaging more MSIs
¿WHY??? 15
We Make an Impact on
1. ACADEMIC
PERFORMANCE
2. PERSISTENCE
THERE is a LITANY of RESEARCH ON HBCUs
Despite
Limited resources
Disparities
Representing merely 3% of US IHLs
Prepare most of the nation’s Black leaders in critical
areas, such as STEM.

A litany of research has firmly documented HBCUs’ impact
on the academic performance of Black students
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights,
notes
17 HBCUs: top BS STEM
degree producers to
Blacks
HBCUs are credited
with producing
38% of Blacks with BIO
Degrees,
31% in mathematics,
35% in computer science,
22% in engineering (Gasman, 2012).
e.g., Fries-Britt & Turner, 2002; Gasman, 2008; Palmer &
Gasman, 2008; Palmer & Wood, 2012) and STEM specifically
(Gasman, 2010, 2012;

How does R&E
ecosystem
benefit from
URMs Inclusion
17

With: 1.Declining
STEM Enrollments,
2. Growing
Minority
Population 18
1. We seek innovative, significant programs to increase enrollment and
success of diverse URM in STEM, for example.
• Digital professions [cybersecurity, additive manufacturing,
architecture, data science evolving.
• CYBER ENABLED SCIENCE Growth [Domain science merged with
Market Science]
2. HE policies, pedagogies, climates, and initiatives must
• effectively promote racial/ ethnic minority students’ educational
attainment in STEM.
3. MSIs have shown efficacy in facilitating the persistence of URM
students in STEM.
• Collectively responsible for producing nearly one-third of the
nation’s minority STEM graduates.
Note: Palmer et al, SUNY Binghamton, published the compendia: Fostering Success of
Ethnic and Racial Minorities in STEM - share salient institutional characteristics,
unique aspects of climate, pedagogy, and programmatic initiatives at MSIs that are
instrumental in enhancing the success of URMs in STEM.

Are there opportunities for greater collaboration between regional networks and these institutions?
Yes,
NSF MS-CC. 19
Lessons learned from the
Missing Millions report
Access to resources
/opportunities is essential, but
without the ability to use/
execute the resources/
opportunities, the impact will be
minimal.
Underrepresented
communities/ institutions
require some effort and
focus on preparatory
training /support to
effectively use these
resources and opportunities
Long-term participation/ engagement with these resources
and opportunities require vibrant communities
• A working community of peers
• A community for a sense of “belonging” and engagement
• A vibrant community for growth and sustainability

Roles for regional networks to help promote and provide more shared services to HBCUs and MSIs? 20
Assisting in Equalizing
the Playing Field-
Reach out, Educate
them
Assist in overcoming
barriers such as funding:
• training for IT professionals to supp
• better network infrastructure (HSI)
• [HSIs, TCUs, HBCUs]
NEEDS: Staff Support and
Institutional Support
[[HSIs, TCUs, HBCUs]
Lack of institutional staff,
technology/ resources to
fulfill this important
function (TCU)
Failure of senior
administration and some
faculty to understand the
importance of having an
advanced
cyberinfrastructure (HSIs]
Remote areas where
students get no Internet
access. (TCU)
Faculty with a background
in using big data [lack of
curriculum at 2-year level
(TCU)
People on campus who
have vision for using data
beyond accreditation
compliance(HSI)

Strategies regional networks can use to attract more HBCUs/ MSIs
Collaborate with 2/3 MSIs or a R1/R2 institution to get NSF grants suchs as CC*
Assist overcome barriers. MS-CC undertook a major MSI survey Results showed the following barriers
• U.S.HE-EnvyofWorld; SymbolofProsperity,Createsopportunitiesforpersonalgrowthanddevelopment. Historical/current
educationaltrendsshow truerforsomemorethanothers.
• Access /participation consistently remains a hallmark of the Privileged, White Patriarchal class; Women
and people of color are largely excluded from the enterprise.
• In U.S. HE race is largely subordinated to identity framed around pervasive practices of ethnocentrism,
cultural elitism, and discrimination. (Anderson, 1998; Watkins, 2001).
• Through racial oppression, HBCUs emerged from foundation to present and continue to defend and
define their existence.
• UnderstandinghowHBCUsdevelopedpromoteneweducational,social,andeconomicopportunitiesforAfricanAmericansis
criticalinshapingaredefinedperspectiveaboutAmericanhighereducation. 21

Reinventing. 22
the University
• June 2014 The Economist
• Cover Feature:
Creative Destruction

MINING TALENT
Single Most Global Preoccupation
• The Economist CREATIVE DESTRUCTION. 23

NRP Assists our
GOAL
TEAR DOWN A WALL
BETWEEN
RESEARCH AND TEACHING
24

NRP assists in providing
New Learning Environments
and
Modalities 25
• Help to Tear Down the Wall
• Provide Persistence for Completion
• Provide Much Needed Engagement
• Provide Collaborative & Diversity

HyperWalltileddisplaySystemforBigDataResearch
Collaborative&DiverseEngagement [NavajoTech&UHD]
• Hispanic, Native & African American Students Collaborate

CyberInfrastructure Center for Sensing of Polar Ice Sheets

Innovation • Intelligence • International • Inclusivity
Emulating Silicon Valley for FAMU Students
Transforming Big Data to Knowledge
• Artificial Intelligence
• Machine Learning
• Data Science/Engineering/Coding
• Cyber Security
• Data Visualization
Transforming Students
to Knowledge Generators
• Big Data Scientific Culture
• Research and Learning
• Workforce Development
FAMU CST Big Data I4V and Cyber Security Research and Learning Lab
Front: iPodia Global Classroom; How Diversity impacts Learning
Back right: Visualization wall. Not seen- computational, cybersecu

CENIC/PW Link
100G FIONA3
40G 192TB
U Hawaii
40G 160TB
NCAR-WY
40G 192TB
UWashington
10G FIONA1
40G FIONA
UIC
40G 3TB
StarLight
PRP/Towards National Research Platform United States Nautilus Hypercluster FIONAs
2021 Award: Connects 4 More Regionals and 3 Internet2 Storage & Test Sites
100G FIONA
I2 Chicago
100G FIONA
I2 Kansas City
100G FIONA
I2 NYC
2015: 256 GPU
2022 600+ GPU
FAMU
Internet2 Backbone
SE Atlantic Backbone
DMZ
40/100 G FIONA
32 GPU cluster

National Research
Platform
1. Significant Key and
2. Foundation for
Reinventing The
University
Provides institutions with alternative paths for
Broadening Participation in STEAM
Emphasizes the
role of BIG
DATA SCIENCE
and
ENGINEERING
Discrete
mathematics is
an alternative
to entering
STEAM
professions.
NOTE: Rutgers University
CENTER FOR DISCRETE MATH
& THEORETICAL CS –NSF S&T
founded 30 years ago
Calculus is
not for
Everyone.
Provides our institutions with Access to
WorldofData-thenew
currencyoncampuses.
SurvivalasprofessionsbecomeDIGITAL
PROFESSIONS;Allowsfocuson CYBER-
ENABLEDSCIENCES

GOAL: Tear down a Wall
Between Research &
Teaching
1. 2nd National Research
Platform taught us What
MSIs Need
2. Preconference Training
Sessions & several NSF CC*
Awards Taught
1. To Lay Foundation for New
Consortium
2. NRP Could Provide, Services,
Resources to Meet Challenges
Ahead
2/6/23 31
MSIs NEED: 1.
Leadership,
2. Desire to seek
cutting edge
innovation,
3. Critical
collaborations for
new partnership
opportunities,
4. Expanding their
mentoring network,
and
5. Faculty
engagement and
buy-in.

Quick
Primer on
Engaging
MSIs in
SLOW, STEADY
DELIBERATE
2/6/23 32
Where We Are Today
• Minority Serving-Cyber
Infrastructure
Consortium
• NSF Toward a National
Research Platform
• NSF Pacific Research
Platform Awarded
How Did We Get Here
• 1999 NSF Advance Networking
with MSIs- improving computer
networking and IT support
• 2005 NSF CI-TEAM 0537498:
MSI CI Institute Demo Project -
implementing the MSI-CIEC
http://www.educationgrid.org
CI Empowerment Coalition
• 2007 MSI CI Empowerment
Coalition initiated CI Days and
spawned major outcomes
• Several CC* GRANTS
• Several NSF EPSCOR GRANTS

Join ourMission
ADVANCE INNOVATION and ENTREPRENEURSHIP:
Mine Talent in STEAM While
Engaging MSIs in the NRP
Then we will be:
Realizing Our Futures by Producing
• Globally Competitive Scientists, Leaders, and Faculty
• Engagement at the Cutting Edges of Learning and
Industrial Advancements
And Meeting our CHALLENGE:
Contribute to Overcoming the Vast Underrepresentation
of HURM Ph. D.s in
STEAM

Objectives
Scientific and Broader Impacts of $3 Million Grant
• Hub for HBCUs, TCUs, and other MSIs to utilize for CI advocacy,
guidance, and expertise
• Support for professional development opportunities for faculty, staff, and
students at HBCUs, TCUs, and other MSIs
• Enhance communication among researchers, university leadership, and
CI professionals
• Increase access to shared CI resources at MS-CC organizations
• Increase diversity in the STEM talent pool and workforce
• Increase the availability of workforce development opportunities for
researchers, professional staff, and students at HBCUs, TCUs, and
other MSIs
• Advancing CI capabilities at these and other minority serving
campuses
• Advance understanding of the benefits for shared CI across a
distributed community of colleges and universities in a mix of urban,
suburban, and rural settings
• Advance understanding around the importance of multi-stakeholder
consortia supporting CI
Principal Investigator:
Ana Hunsinger,
Internet2
ana@internet2.edu
Co-Principal Investigators:
Dr. Richard Aló, Florida A&M University
Dr. Damian Clarke, Meharry Medical College
Dr. Deborah Dent, Jackson State University
Jim Bottom, American Indian Higher
Education Consortium
Minority Serving Cyberinfrastructure Consortium (MS-CC)
NSF CI Center of Excellence Demonstration Pilot
Award # OAC-2137123

WayMark Analytics acknowledges the traditional owners of the lands across the North American Continent.
We pay respect to Elders past, present and emerging.
Data and Computing Infrastructure
for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs),
Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs), and other Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs)
Stakeholder Alignment Survey Report – January 2021

Thank you
Now onto the panelists

Salish Kootenai College
Tribal College located on the Flathead Indian Reservation in Northwest
Montana
A little Info on tribal colleges
● Academic Programs are as varied as the number of colleges
● Emphasis on environment sciences and tribal cultures
● Lots of other STEM programs as well
● Some other programs at SKC
○ Nursing Programs, Dental Assisting, Social Work, Psychology, Education, Heavy
Equipment and Highway Construction
● Provide workforce development certifications, other certifications such
as EMT
, medical assisting, etc.
● Associates, Bachelors, and Masters programs

Cyberinfrastructure at TCUs
● Basic Infrastructure
● Data storage
● Computing services
● High speed Campus network to support infrastructure
● High speed Internet
● Cloud resources
● Sophisticated applications running on power computing systems
● People to help manage the infrastructure and provide training and
guidance in the use of the infrastructure.

Cyberinfrastructure at TCUs
● They face the same challenges that mainstream colleges and
universities face
● American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC) is the
consortium that all tribal colleges are part of.

Cyberinfrastructure Issues at TCUs

Three General Areas CI Issues at TCUs
● Resource Challenges
○ Budgetary limitations have driven TCUs to prioritize other
campus needs over those of their IT department. This tendency
to under prioritize the needs of the IT department contributes
to every identified technical issue.
○ IT personnel deficit
● Technical IT Infrastructure Issues
○ Many of the TCUs have significant deficiencies in their basic
physical infrastructure.
● Internet Connectivity Challenges
○ At the time of the study’s completion, TCU Internet connection

A Pathway to Improvement
● AIHEC Cyberinfrastructure Effort
● Minority Serving - Cyberinfrastructure Consortium (MS-CC)
○ MS-CC NSF Grant PoCG
○ Tiger Teams
● Development of and access to Shared Resources
○ Technical resources such as clusters, cloud storage, etc
○ Training resources
○ People

What SKC is looking to accomplish with CI
● Develop a comprehensive CI Plan that allow researchers and
educators to use CI technologies to improve and expand their
research and provide more educational opportunities to our
students.
● Develop internal and external relationships with CI people to that
researchers and educators can get the training and access to
resources that they need.
● Identify those areas of the campus that CI can enhance
● The CI Plan will establish a path for SKC to develop and maintain a
more technically sophisticated infrastructure for researchers and
educators.

High Performance computing at
CSUSB
Past-present-future

Mission of information technology services
Our mission is to support student, faculty and staff success by providing
world class customer service, fostering faculty-led innovation and
research, and enhancing operational efficiency through the effective
use of information technologies.

FACULTY LED
RESEARCH
1. CSUSB is one of top five institutions in the CSU for Faculty Led
Research - $44 million in federal funding in 2022-2023
2. Received R2 Designation in 2022
3. Most of the funded research projects did not require high
performance computing
4. When it was needed, faculty went on their own to garner
resources from their colleagues and partner institutions

• We needed to find resources for faculty who needed high
performance computing resources
• We didn’t necessarily have the funding, expertise or the resources
to build an infrastructure in house
• We experimented with building a HPC Cluster with hopes of
securing NSF funding to build an infrastructure
The need

• Dean Caballero brought researchers from Extreme Science and
Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) in 2015 to talk to our
faculty about using resources for their HPC needs
• We worked with XSEDE for a couple of years, but their resources
didn’t quite match up with what our faculty needs were.
• We ended up buying HPC resources from the San Diego Super
Computing Center to support our faculty needs
• In 2017, CENIC introduced us to the Pacific Research Platform (PRP)
Exploration of resources outside CSUSB

• The PRP is a partnership of more than 50 institutions, led by
researchers at UC San Diego and UC Berkeley and includes the
National Science Foundation, Department of Energy, and multiple
research universities in the US and around the world. The PRP
builds on the optical backbone of Pacific Wave, a joint project of
CENIC and the Pacific Northwest GigaPOP (PNWGP) to create a
seamless research platform that encourages collaboration on a
broad range of data-intensive fields and projects.
Pacific (NATIONAL) Research Platform

• In June 2017, CSUSB becomes a part of the Pacific Research Platform,
the second CSU to become a part of this prestigious research network
• We worked with our team at ITS to create a Science DMZ and get
connected to the Platform
• In 2018 James Macdonell and Dr. Dung Vu attend the FIONA
workshop at the CENIC Annual Conference
CSUSB becomes a member of the PRP

In 2018, CSUSB one of the eight CSU campuses that was upgraded to a 100 Gig link to California
Research and Education Network (CalREN) operated by CENIC (https://cenic.org/about/about-
overview) Campus had two 10 Gig links. One of the reasons CSUSB was chosen for this upgrade was
its focus on supporting faculty-led research.
•
•
CSUSB backbone connectivity upgrade

• - Dr. Dung Vu, Information Security & Emerging Technologies
analyst/programmer
• - James Macdonell, Information Security & Emerging Technologies lead
infrastructure analyst
• - Dr. Youngsu Kim, 2021-2022 HPCI Faculty Fellow and Assistant
Professor of Mathdmatics
• - Dr. Bradford Owen, Director of Academic Technologies & Innovation
HPCI Team

Open Science Grid (OSG): 200,000.0 Sus : https://opensciencegrid.org/
PRP Nautilus Cluster https://ucsd-prp.gitlab.io/nautilus/
petabyte of distributed Ceph storage
CPU and GPU compute distributed across 150+ nodes
In Progress
• Jetstream
• https://kb.iu.edu/d/bfde
•
They are deploying Jestream2 system with GPU for Windows software that other platforms do not. We will be testing
and introduce to Faculty.
•
• Cloudbank
• https://www.cloudbank.org/
• Through NSF funding, they will grant cloud credits to faculty. We are attending their presentation in coming week.
Resources available to our faculty today

HPC Projects at CSUSB
❏ Dr. B. J. Becerra, (Information and Decision Sciences) Predicting Pediatric
Sleep Apnea
❏ Dr. Y. Kim, (Mathematics) Symbolic Computations in Algebra
❏ Dr. K. Liszka, (History, Benson and Pamela Harer Fellow in Egyptology,
director of the Wadi el Hudi expedition)
Dr. B. Kraemer, (Robert and Francis Fullerton Museum of Art CSUSB, co-
director of the Wadi el Hudi expedition) Ancient Egytian Wadi el-Hudi
expedition
❏ Dr. J. Meyer (Mathematics) Cryptography
❏ Dr. J. Pham (Chemistry & Biochemistry) Advanced Functional Materials
❏ Dr. S. Ratnasingam (Mathematics) Investigations in Statistics

• Some institutions take the "lifeguard" approach to high-
performance computing
• - Support staff are aware of faculty high-performance computing
projects but don't necessarily build or manage technical solutions
• - They "stay out of the pool" and keep a birds’ eye view, but are able
to jump into the pool at a moment’s notice
How HPC Resources are provided to faculty

• At CSUSB, we take a "world class customer service" approach to faculty high-
performance computing
• - We provide up to 100% assistance with building and managing technical
solutions, based on faculty’s needs
• - We recommend the computing resources best suited to faculty’s projects
• - We deploy software and build HPC systems adaptable to resources allocations
( RAM, CPU, GPU, etc.)
• - We assist how to operate the software in HPC
• - We provide tech support and collaborate with HPC centers
• - Our goal is to pursue, locate, and secure computing solutions which allow
faculty to successfully complete their research – giving up is not a solution
How HPC Resources are provided to faculty

• - Outreach to new HPC centers to request resource allocations
• - Explore features of each HPC center
• - Build relationships, and become active in forums such as the Campus Champion Group
• - Participate in presentations, trainings, conferences to learn new technologies
• - Collaborate with HPC techs to provide solutions
• Current HPC-assisted research at CSUSB:
• https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1p-
v5m4Y4fmC5Vdv495_KZIZNO4pHiUNNWRak7MP-9No/edit#gid=1354376216
•
How dO we acquire HPC resources?

The Road to Empowerment is
Slow, Steady, and Deliberate
Lessons from 14+ years of practice
Jill Gemmill
gemmill@clemson.edu

•Why? – Regional
•EPSCoR
•C-Light network
•Increase diversity at Clemson
•Changes in incoming student
populations
Tales from a
PWI point of
view

•SC and TN EPSCoR jurisdiction
partnership for growth in
Computational Systems Biology
and Materials Science
•Outreach to HBCUs in SC, TN
NSF EPS 0919440
09/2009-08/2013
Collaborative
Research: An
EPSCoR Desktop
to Teragrid
Ecosystem
1+ national level
resources
5+ HPC applications on
regional resources
50+ beyond desktop
desktop

Steps
•Who are MSI outreach experts?
•Claflin
•CI Days etc.
•MSI-CIEC (NSF-0636352 CI-
TEAM Implementation Project:
Minority Serving Institutions
(MSI)-Cyberinfrastructure (CI)
Empowerment Coalition)
Richard Alo
Joey Brenn
Nick Panasik

•A program of workshops, site
visits, and best practices
documentation to
administrators, campus IT
groups, and researchers at
institutions across the South,
partnering with SoX,
Internet2, and Esnet.
NSF OAC 1440659
09/2014-09/2016
C*IIE Region:
Southern
Partnership in
Advanced
Networking
(SPAN)
Damian Clarke

•a new model for more effective
engagement of HBCUs in the
cyberinfrastructure ecosystem
•Bring together CIOs and faculty
•Write campus CI plan
NSF ACI 1659297
02/2017-01/2018
CC* Cyber Team:
Cyberinfrastructure
Empowerment for
Diverse Research,
Scholarship, and
Workforce
Development
(CI Empower) Deborah Dent Bobby Clarke

Steps
•NSF OAC 1827127 CC* Networking
Infrastructure: Bulldog Connectivity
and Research (SCSU)
•NSF OAC 1827098 CC* Networking
Infrastructure: Jackson State
University (JSU)-Research Network
•NSF OAC 1925641 CC* Networking
Infrastructure: Claflin Research
Network
Damian
Clarke
Donald
Walter
Deborah
Dent
Tor
Kwembe
Joey Brenn
Nick Panasik

Steps
•HBCU Workshop June 2018
•Organized and led by HBCUs
•HBCUs explaining CI to other HBCUs
•MS-CC Chartering document
Urban Wiggins
Tom Jackson

Timeline
Center of
Excellence Idea

Summary Thoughts
•RELATIONSHIP IS KEY
•Trust
•Time
•Doing work together
•CIOs + FACULTY
•Inflection point: HBCUs take ownership and lead
•Success: Role of “facilitator” is transitional
•Greatest impact where multiple programs overlap

Some Challenges
•Balancing desire for locally owned resources w. using
what’s available regionally/nationally
•R1s may be able to host
•Facilitator/Support staff
•a challenge to hire even one
•Shared staff person model doesn’t exist yet
•Affiliation w. regional or R1 larger team
•Role of faculty at these institutions is key

Reaching More
Minority-Serving
Campuses
Dr. Deborah Dent
CIO - Jackson State University

Jackson State University
• Urban University Located in
Jackson Mississippi
• Number of Student - 7000
• Carnegie Classification – R2
• President - Mr. Thomas
Hudson, J.D.

Research Leadership
Deborah Dent
(CIO & PI)
Damion Brown
(CISO)
Roy Straughter
(Network
Engineer)
Emily Bishop
(Innovation
Specialist)
Michael
Robinson (CTO)
Joseph Whittaker
( VP Research)
Almesha Cambell,
(Assoc VP Research)
IT Research Support
Team

Key Partners
• MS-CC
• Internet2
• National Science Foundation
• U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center
• U.S. Department of Defense
• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services:
• U.S. Department of Education:
• National Institutes of Health
• NASA
• Other Higher Education Institution
• Recent Announcement: UARC Consortium
• under the leadership of Howard University

Climbing to R1
§Jackson State University
(JSU) experienced a dramatic
increase of 90.96% in
sponsored research funding for
the 2022 fiscal year, far
outpacing the previous cycle.
§The growth aligns with the
‘Elevate’ theme of JSU’s
Strategic Plan.
R1 Carnegie Classification
R2 Carnegie Classification
Jackson State University

Climbing to R1
§“JSU will raise the level of research
prominence by leveraging our ‘high
research activity’ status, increasing
our research capabilities, growing
strategic partnerships, driving
innovation and economic
development, and providing
opportunities for faculty and
students to engage in impactful
collaborative research.” Dr. Joseph
Whittaker, VPR
R1 Carnegie Classification
R2 Carnegie Classification
Jackson State University

•Research Excellence is part of the university’s strategic
plan, “JSU Elevate.”
•The university has established research focus areas in
Materials, Energy Sciences and Engineering; Supply
Chain and Logistics; Biomedical and Public Health;
Geosciences, Environmental and Ocean Sciences; and
Data Science, Analytics, and Visualization.
• Cybersecurity and Cyber Infrastructure education and
research will be interwoven throughout these focus
areas, enabling high-level research in a more secure
environment.

Our Role in the Journey
• Providing
Cyberinfrastructure
Services

Cyberinfrastructure
at JSU

2013 - Realized
CI’s Importance
2017 – Developed CI
Plan under the
guidance of the NSF
Empower Grant
CC* Grant in 2018
Upgraded Network
to 100GB
Established
Science DMZ
2018 Part of the
founding of the
MS-CC
CI Roadmap

2019 Attended CC*
meeting and
introduced to 3NRP
& the Quilt
March 2021 – MS-CC
Partners with
Internet2
January 2022 –
Onboard CISO
October 2022 –
CI Workshop
CI Roadmap

• Challenges
• Limited Access to External HPC
Resources
• Small HPC Clusters (In Silos)
• Coming in the Near Future
• Access to Cloud Resources for HPC
• Access to CI Engineers and MS-CC Tiger
Team
• Access to Additional Computing
Resources

Needs:
*Faculty Involvement
*Dedicated CI
Workforce
• Enhanced training opportunities for faculty
and staff
• Workforce development
• Exposure and participation in
interdisciplinary CI professional communities.
• Access to subject-matter experts with
leading-edge cyberinfrastructure skills

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Fourth National Research Platform (4NRP) | February 10, 2023
Ana Hunsinger, VP Community Engagement, Internet2
NSF Awards # OAC-2137123 and OAC-2234326
The Minority Serving-Cyberinfrastructure
Consortium (MS-CC):
Advancing CI at HBCUs, TCUs, and
Other MSIs

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THE VISION
We will engage as full
contributors to the
global R&E community
MS-CC envisions a transformational partnership to promote
advanced cyberinfrastructure (CI) capabilities on HBCU, HSI,
TCU, and MSI campuses. We are advancing connections across
campuses around data, research computing, teaching, curriculum
development, professional development, and capacity-building.
We will learn and grow as a consortium, lifting up all participating
institutions by advancing cyberinfrastructure for research and
education across diverse fields, disciplines, and communities in ways
that reflect the unique voices and interests of our communities.

MS-CC Purpose
• Increase access to CI capabilities
• Enhance communication between
researchers, CI professionals and
campus leadership, and between
institutional members
• Support CI-enabled professional
and career development
• Collective advocacy and
partnerships
MS-CC Guiding Principles
Inclusion | Innovation | Stakeholder Value
MS-CC Stakeholders
• Researchers, educators, and
students
• Cyberinfrastructure professionals
• Campus leadership
• Industry partners
• Foundations and funding agencies

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NSF CI Center of Excellence Demonstration Pilot
Objectives
• Create a connective and collaborative
organization that serves as a centralized hub for
HBCUs, TCUs, and other MSIs to utilize for CI
expertise, experience-sharing, and advocacy.
• Increase awareness, availability, and financial support
for CI-relevant professional development for
faculty, staff, and students at HBCUs, TCUs, and
other MSIs.
• Enhance communication among researchers,
university leadership, and CI professionals.
• Increase access to shared CI resources at MS-CC
organizations.
Minority Serving Cyberinfrastructure Consortium (MS-CC)
Award # OAC-2137123 – 10/1/2021 to 9/30/2023
Scientific and Broader Impacts
• Advance understanding of the benefits for shared CI
across a distributed community of minority-serving
colleges and universities in a mix of urban, suburban,
and rural settings
• Advance CI capabilities at these and other minority
serving campuses
• Increase the availability of workforce development
opportunities for researchers, professional staff, and
students at HBCUs, TCUs, and other MSIs
• Increase diversity in the STEM talent pool and
workforce
• Advance understanding around the importance of
multi-stakeholder consortia supporting CI

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• Dr. Richard Aló, Florida A&M University
• Al Anderson, Salish Kootenai College
• Jim Bottum, American Indian Higher Education Consortium
• Joey Brenn, Claflin University
• Dr. Ming-Hsing Chiu, Dillard University
• Bobby Clark, Clemson University
• Dr. Damian Clarke, Alabama State University
• Dr. Deborah Dent, Jackson State University
• Tom Jackson, North Carolina A&T State University
• Leah Kraus, North Carolina Central University
• Dr. Kylie Nash, Alabama A&M University
• Dr. Adebisi Oladipupo, Morgan State University
• Dr. Urban Wiggins, University of Maryland Eastern Shore
MS-CC Guided by Consortium Leadership Council (CLC)
representing Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs)
and Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs)

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2022 Activities for the MS-CC
Monthly Consortium Meetings, Pulse Surveys
Outreach and workshops
• March 15, 2022: Open Science Grid All Hands Meeting presentation
• April 5, 2022: South Carolina Divine Nine Legislative Day
presentation
• June 15, 2022: TNC22 presentation
• June 22-23, 2022: North Carolina A&T State University workshop
• August 17-18, 2022: Salish Kootenai College workshop
• September 13, 2022: NSF LFO 2022 Research Infrastructure
Workshop panel
• September 13, 2022: HP HBCU Tech22 Conference presentation
• September 19, 2022: HBCU Presidents’ Convening
• September 20-23, 2022: National HBCU Week break out session
presentation
• September 21, 2022: NSF CC* PI / Quilt meeting panel presentation

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MS-CC: Coalescing HBCUs, TCUs, HSIs, and other entities
Alabama A&M University
Alabama State University
Albany State University
Alcorn State University
American Baptist College
Barber-Scotia College
Benedict College
Bennett College
Bethune-Cookman University
Bishop State Community College
Bowie State University
Claflin University
Clark Atlanta University
Denmark Technical College
Dillard University
Elizabeth City State University
Fayetteville State University
Fisk University
Florida A&M University
Florida Memorial University
Grambling State University
Hampton University
Jackson State University
Jarvis Christian University
Johnson C. Smith University
Knoxville College
Langston University
LeMoyne-Owen College
Livingstone College
Meharry Medical College
Miles College
Mississippi Valley State University
Morgan State University
Morris College
Norfolk State University
North Carolina A&T State University
North Carolina Central University
Prairie View A&M University
Saint Augustine’s University
Shaw University
South Carolina State University
Southern University at New Orleans
Spelman College
Stillman College
Tennessee State University
Tougaloo College
Tuskegee University
University of Arkansas – Pine Bluff
University of Maryland Eastern Shore
University of the District of Columbia
University of the Virgin Islands
Virginia State University
Virginia Union University
Winston-Salem State University
HBCUs (54)
Aaniiih Nakoda College
Cankdeska Cikana Community College
Fond du Lac Tribal and Community College
Little Big Horn College
Navajo Technical University
Salish Kootenai College
Turtle Mountain Community College
TCUs (7)
California State University – Fresno
Essex County College
Florida Atlantic University
Housatonic Community College
Houston Christian University
Mendocino College
New Mexico State University – Main Campus
Northern Arizona University
Oxnard University
Taft College
Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi
Texas Tech University
The University of Arizona
University of California – Riverside
University of Illinois – Chicago
University of Redlands
West Texas A&M University
HSIs (17)
University of Colorado – Boulder
University of Delaware
University of Maryland Baltimore County (API)
University of Mississippi
University of North Carolina – Greensboro
University of North Carolina – Pembroke
(NASNTI)
University of Oklahoma
University of South Carolina
University of Southern Mississippi
University of Wisconsin – Madison
Arizona State University
Brandeis University
Chicago State University (PBI)
Clemson University
Colorado State University
Fordham University
Georgia Tech
Harvard Medical School
Indiana University
Mars Hill University
North Carolina State University
Penn State University
University of California - Berkeley
Other Higher Ed (23)
American Indian Higher Education Consortium
Arkansas Economic Development Commission
CI Compass
Great Plains Network
HA ThirtyOne
Internet2*
NTIA
Ohio Supercomputer Center
San Diego Supercomputer Center
South Carolina Commission for Minority Affairs
Southern Crossroads
TrustedCI
UCAR
United Negro College Fund
Waymark Analytics
Other Entities Supporting MS-CC (15)
As of January 19, 2023

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1. How will promising faculty members with meritorious research
projects be able to leverage research infrastructure to accelerate
science when they have little to no support as it relates to CI and
research workflows?
2. How will I ever be a competitive grant applicant without having
significant capabilities to train and scale my staff to ensure we are
able to meet criteria necessary to be a competitive applicant?
3. What is the value of IAM, clouds/HPC and other technology tools
and solutions if these are not readily available on a campus and
with no capabilities for implementation to support researchers that
may be able to use them?
Challenges HBCUs and TCUs Face

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Objective
• Significantly increase and accelerate cyberinfrastructure-centric research capacity at MS-CC campuses
through a set of new approaches from which we can then learn and potentially frame a repeatable, successful
model for cyberinfrastructure implementations on the campuses of minority-serving institutions.
Principal Investigator:
Ana Hunsinger,
Internet2
ana@internet2.edu
Co-Principal Investigators:
Al Anderson,
Salish Kootenai College
James Brenn,
Claflin University
Dr. Deborah Dent,
Jackson State University
21st Century Research-Cyberinfrastructure for MSIs through the
Minority Serving - Cyberinfrastructure Consortium (MS-CC): A phased
approach to engage the Missing Millions
Minority Serving Cyberinfrastructure Consortium (MS-CC)
Award # OAC-2234326
Start date: 10/1/2022 Projected end date: 9/30/2027
NSF Award
Approach
• Initial allocation of at least five (5) Proof of Concept Grant (PoCG) Awards to select MS-CC institutions that
allows each to perform campus specific CI assessments that drive an overall CI strategic plan and a roadmap
to pioneer new capabilities that advance CI-centric research, and empower scientific advancements.
• Establishing teams of expert CI Professionals that will provide support to the PoCGs through consultation,
implementation of expanded CI capabilities, and leading efforts to ensure these institutions are participating
and collaborating with the broader CI ecosystem.
• MS-CC as a more robust effort so that it can be able to support future PoCGs and to support a more
directed approach to ensure these institutions are participating and collaborating with the broader CI
ecosystem.

MS-CC Proof-of-Concept Grant (PoCG) Program
• novel approach to CI planning and capacity development to
advance research and education programs at TCUs and HBCUs
• combination of funding and dedicated expert facilitation
• local CI workforce development and planning activities
• partnership with MS-CC’s “Tiger Teams” of experts on campus
CI capabilities and stakeholder alignment
• up to 5 years of support
• Phase I recipients TBA in Feb 2023
• at least 1 TCU, 1 HBCU
• future phases planned, depending on outcomes & funding
• complementary to existing CI funding mechanisms
• potential implications for supporting CI, research, and education
advancement at other institutions

MS-CC Campus CI Facilitation Services
Advising and support from Cyberinfrastructure
and Stakeholder Alignment Tiger Teams on:
• CI facilitation/co-facilitation for researchers and
educators
• CI assessment, service design, & operation
• CI staffing and workforce development
• stakeholder identification toward CI planning,
collaborative survey development
• campus CI governance structures
• collaboration liaising
• CI funding mechanisms & proposal development
• development of campus CI Plans and
Science Drivers (toward CC* funding)
• compliance review, grant management
applied in combination for deep engagement with
PoCG recipients, and to inform future specific, short-term CI
facilitation for other MS-CC campuses

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Internet2 in support of HBCUs, TCUs and
other MSIs working together to reduce the
gap between their campus cyberinfrastructure
and the global R&E ecosystem
• Workforce: Increasing the number of qualified students entering the
STEM workforce from HBCUs and broadening the CI knowledge and
capabilities of faculty, staff, and students at HBCUs
• Campus Infrastructure: Supporting the resources necessary to
develop the workforce on HBCU and TCU campuses, leading CI
advancements on campuses. Allowing institutions to become a training
ground that develops professionals who are able to implement and
operate their campus CI.
• Research: Advancing CI capabilities that allow for new, and more
robust community-focused research that has historically not been able
to advance at HBCUs due to limited resources
• Collaboration: Using Tiger Teams as a shared service among
organizations to broaden collaborations, discussions, and communities
of practice within the HBCU and TCU community and ensuring
perspectives are considered throughout the entire research and
education community
Scientific and Broader Impacts
• Advance understanding of how a consortia of shared
resources and expertise can allocate these resources to
historically underserved institutions for targeted impact in
their communities, and toward diversifying the STEM
workforce
• Allow new collaborations to occur between HBCUs,
TCUs and already established research communities,
allowing for new ideas to be incorporated into practices
that may not have previously considered the needs of
minority-serving communities
• Enable Federal agencies to gain insight into STEM
fields and programs essential to minority-serving
communities
• Pioneer new capabilities that better meet the needs,
advance CI-centric research, and empower scientific
advancements on HBCU, TCU, and other MSI campuses
Intellectual Merit
21st Century Research-Cyberinfrastructure for MSIs through the Minority Serving
- Cyberinfrastructure Consortium (MS-CC): A phased approach to engage the
Missing Millions
Minority Serving Cyberinfrastructure Consortium (MS-CC)
Award # OAC-2234326
NSF Award

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1Q2023 Upcoming Activities for MS-CC
Outreach and workshops
• January 31, 2023: NSF Cyberinfrastructure Workshop (CC*) –
Navajo Technical University presentation
• February 10, 2023: Fourth National Research Platform panel
• February 17, 2023: MS-CC Virtual CI 101 Series: Demystifying
Terminology
• February 23, 2023: CI Compass All Hands Meeting presentation
• March 8, 2023: NSF OAC Technical Talk presentation
• March 21-22, 2023: Claflin University workshop
• April 2023: University of Maryland Eastern Shore workshop
• May 8-11, 2023: Internet2 Community Exchange panel, presentation
• May 10-11, 2023: Inaugural MS-CC Annual Meeting
CI and STEM Mentoring and Internship Programs (TBD)
• CI and STEM students; coordinated by MS-CC, with mentors and
internships across MS-CC members, institutional partners, and industry

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Join us!
CI 101 Virtual Series Kickoff
Friday, February 17th at 1PM ET
Registration required: bit.ly/CI101Feb17
• What is Cyberinfrastructure (CI)?
• What is a CI Plan?
• How a CI Plan Supports Campus Research
• Why you Need a CI Plan
• Starting a CI Plan
• Questions & Discussion
• Additional Resources: CI Plan Examples

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Mark your calendars and join us
May 10-11, 2023
Inaugural MS-CC Annual Meeting
Picture Credit: freepik

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Pulse Survey
The 2023 MS-CC survey is being finalized. Take the time – let us know what’s
important to your campus and community.
Stay tuned for an email in the coming week!
MS-CC is Hiring!
Looking to fill the following positions in 1Q/2Q 2023:
• MS-CC Program Director
• CI Engineer
• PoCG Project Manager

Thank you!
Ana Hunsinger, PI, MS-CC
VP Community Engagement, Internet2
ana@internet2.edu