Trusted CI Webinar: Lessons From the ACCORD Project

Hutchins, Ron; Nguyen, Tho; Magee, Neal

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Title

Trusted CI Webinar: Lessons From the ACCORD Project

Author(s)

• Hutchins, Ron
• Nguyen, Tho
• Magee, Neal

Issue Date

2024-03-18

Keyword(s)

• Trusted CI
• webinar
• ACCORD
• NSF
• Trustworthy Data
• Data Assurance

Abstract

The ACCORD cyberinfrastructure project at the University of Virginia (UVA) successfully developed and deployed a community infrastructure providing access to secure research computing resources for users at underserved, minority-serving, and non-PhD-granting institutions. ACCORD's operational model is built around balancing data protection with accessibility. In addition to providing secure research computing resources and services, key outcomes of ACCORD include creation of a set of policies that enable researchers external to UVA to access and use ACCORD. While the ACCORD expedition achieved its technical and operational goals, its broader mission of broadening access to underserved users had limited success. Toward gaining a better understanding of the barriers to researchers accessing ACCORD, our team carried out two community outreach efforts to engage with researchers and computing service leaders to hear their pain points as well as solicit their input for an accessible community infrastructure. In this talk, we will describe the ACCORD infrastructure and its operational model. We will also discuss insights from our effort to develop policies to balance accessibility with security. And finally, we wil share lessons learned from community outreach efforts to understand institutional and social barriers to access.

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• text
• still image

Language

eng

Sponsor(s)/Grant Number(s)

• NSF Award # 1919667
• NSF Award # 2241313

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©2024 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-­NonCommercial 3.0 Unported (CC BY­NC 3.0) license.

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