BRICCs: Building Pathways to Research Cyberinfrastructure at Under Resourced Institutions

Dramatic growth in the use of computing in educational practices and research workflows encourages two-year institutions to adopt large-scale computing practices rapidly. Advanced cyberinfrastructure (CI) resources are required to support educators, students, and researchers in cloud computing, data sciences, and related cross-cutting fields such as smart manufacturing. While community colleges will differ in enrollment, geographical location, business models, and programs offered, the underlying institutional needs to store, access, manage, analyze, compute, and curate their data remain the same. Working with regional efforts to advance computing and networking, we discuss collaborative models to develop appropriate adoption models with them.