LEARN: Lonestar Education and Research Network

NSF Grant 1925553

TRECIS

NSF Award #2019135, CC* Team: Texas Education and Cybertraining Center (TRECIS)

NSF Award #2019135, CC* Team: Texas Education and Cybertraining Center (TRECIS), aims to act as a regional hub to train, consult, and support postdoctoral researchers in cyberinfrastructure, allowing them to increase their computing knowledge in order to utilize technology and advance their research in new ways. The LEARN network will provide fast and reliable Internet connectivity capable of handling the large datasets produced and exchanged as part of the project.

Training postdoctoral students in cyberinfrastructure and hiring them to teach other students will help raise awareness of IT resources available to researchers and bridge the gap between IT staff and the campus community utilizing the technology. As an outreach component of the grant, TRECIS will also make project-trained personnel available to underrepresented groups including minority institutions such as Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).

This grant offers opportunities for collaboration and training. For more information, contact Info@tx-learn.net

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Objectives

Raise awareness of and competence in shared CI resources across UT System campuses and beyond
Expand network connectivity for UT campuses and engage other campuses in networking and CI services
Create and evaluate a model of research facilitation as embedded collaboration
Implement a model for training postdoctoral researchers with domain science experience in the areas of HPC and other CI-related services
Improve the outcomes of research projects by matching the needs of those projects to the existing CI, allocating adequate resources and developing effective workflows, algorithms and pipelines

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