Supporting UW–Madison’s strategic priority of excellence in research and scholarship.
Advance research computing and data science to accelerate the pace of research and innovation.
Strategy 1:
Create a coalition to enhance and expand services that enable researchers to leverage university computing, storage and cloud-based services.
Plans
- Services: Solidify current major research computing groups into a university-wide coalition working together to provide resources to researchers.
- Computation: Enhance computational capacity to the level of our competitive peers.
- Facilities: Provide high quality research data center facilities that meet the research needs of our university.
- Cloud: Improve cloud capabilities/services to provide easier access for researchers.
- Funding: Develop sustainable funding.
Projects
- Investment in research computing infrastructure
- Advisory Committee on Research Computing (ACORC)
- More IT projects associated with Research
Key outcomes
- Increased usage and growth of computational capacity and data center facilities.
- More computationally advanced research projects completed with university infrastructure.
- Money and staff time saved by not running independent data center facilities.
Strategy 2:
Increase researchers’ awareness and use of research cyberinfrastructure services, training and communities of practice.
Plans
- Evolve service models for researcher support to include emerging technologies and capabilities.
- Develop a methodology to gather, track and “upvote” different university needs leading to buy-in of new services and features.
Projects
- Investment in research computing infrastructure
- Advisory Committee on Research Computing (ACORC)
- More IT projects associated with Research
Key outcomes
- Growth in research consultations leading to more use of provided tools.
- Continually evolving services to allow for leading edge research to use new technology capabilities as they emerge.
- Increased visibility for up-and-coming tools necessary to support the evolving nature of science and research.
Strategy 3:
Lower barriers of entry to research and collaboration; focus on improving research cyberinfrastructure alignment with university/research administration.
Plans
- Link university-wide research cyberinfrastructure initiatives, such as School of Medicine and Public Health (SMPH) Platform X and Social Science Computing Cooperative (SSCC) SILO, to research cyberinfrastructure services.
- Improve ease of cybersecuring research projects.
- Foster partnerships between DoIT and college or department lab-based IT to further support research needs.
Projects
- Investment in research computing infrastructure
- Advisory Committee on Research Computing (ACORC)
- More IT projects associated with Research
Key outcome
- Growth of the research coalition with more participants and researchers, as well as more specialized capabilities.