Education, Outreach and Training: Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure
Summary
Project started on Dec. 1, 1997 (Completed)
CTG is the lead government partner in a nationwide effort to build a National Technology Infrastructure for the twenty-first century. Funded by the National Science Foundation, the infrastructure will enable the United States to stay on the leading edge of science and technology by integrating computational, collaborative, visualization, and information resources into a powerful "National Technology Grid."
The governing organization, the National Computational Science Alliance (Alliance), organizes the efforts of more than 50 research centers across the United States. Headed by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the Alliance includes top-notch research partners from educational institutions, national laboratories, industry, and supercomputing centers across the country.
In this partnership, CTG joins other educational and research organizations in helping to identify, develop, and disseminate innovative applications of advanced technologies to the practical problems of federal, state, and local governments.
Scope of Work
CTG is the lead government partner in the National Science Foundation’s effort to build a National Technology Infrastructure for the twenty-first century. Integrating computational, visualization, and information resources, the infrastructure will help the United States to stay on the leading edge of technology.
As the lead partner of the government portion of the Education, Outreach and Training (EOT) Team for the Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (PACI), CTG helps identify, develop, and disseminate innovative applications of technologies to the practical problems of federal, state, and local governments.
PACI is a partnership among computational scientists, computer scientists, and professionals in education, outreach, and training at more than fifty U.S. universities and research institutions working to prototype the computational and information infrastructure of the next century.
This NSF initiative consists of two broad partnerships of research institutions across the country: The National Computational Science Alliance (NCSA) and the National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (NPACI). NCSA is headed by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. NPACI is headed by the San Diego State University at the University of California at San Diego.
As the lead government partner in the initiative’s Education, Outreach and Training team, CTG works with scientists from both of these partnerships to build stronger collaborations between researchers and government. These linkages are expected to result in research products that address practical needs of government.
CTG's mission is to work with other government partners to help identify practical problems faced by state and local governments and apply promising advanced computational infrastructure (ACI) technologies to help solve the practical problems they face. In addressing the management, policy, and technical factors that affect success, CTG will use its proven award-winning methodology that both encourages and reduces the risks of technology-supported innovation to help PACI transform good ideas into working solutions for government.
This partnership is expected to have a number of benefits for all participants. Through the work of EOT-PACI, development teams should be able to build more pragmatic tools of direct benefit to not only government, but also to business, industry, research, and education.
The project will define and disseminate general models and guidelines for effective, practical uses of ACI technologies. It will support the use of ACI technologies to help solve pressing societal problems faced by government agencies and policy makers.
Press Releases & News Stories
Press Release
Publications & Results
Guide
Reports
- Insider's Guide to Using Information in Government Executive Briefing
- Some Assembly Required: Building a Digital Government for the 21st Century
Public Events
- (NPACI) All-Hands Meeting -- An All-Hands meeting of the members of the NPACI partnership was held January 27-29, 1999. CTG made a presentation on EOT in government to FedCon, and hosted a panel at the NPACI meeting on "federal agency needs for high-end technologies."
- Education, Outreach, and Training: The National Grand Challenge -- CTG participated in a panel at Alliance '98, the meeting of all partners of the National Computational Science Alliance which identified EOT related issues and activities, in context of the PACI mission. CTG highlighted issues related to public policy makers, program managers, and government technologists in relation to ACI technologies.
- Alliance '98 -- An overall presentation of the EOT-PACI work with government was given at the 1998 Triple Helix Conference.
Partners
Lead Partners
- National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- San Diego Supercomputing Center (SDSC) at the University of California, San Diego
Center for Technology in Government
- Peter Bloniarz, Co-Principal Investigator
- Jim Costello, Web Applications Developer
- Sharon Dawes, Principal Investigator
- Jiaoheng Meng, Computer Science
- Shalini Paliath, Computer Science
- Derek Werthmuller, Technology Services Director
Participants
- Institute Of Government And Public Affairs (IGPA). As an EOT partner, IGPA works with Illinois state and local governments to use technology to support training, and community-building among elected officials, and government practitioners.
Funding Sources
This project is funded in part through a grant from the National Science Foundation.