Many smaller, mid-sized and under-resourced campuses, including MSIs, HSIs, HBCUs, and EPSCoR institutions, have compelling science research and education activities along with an awareness of the benefits associated with better access to cyberinfrastructure resources. Yet, these schools typically may not have the resources or expertise in-house to go through the process of identifying, understanding and quantifying science drivers, understanding the cyberinfrastructure needed to support the applications; and, then provide both the technical and application support associated with matching the applications to the infrastructure, particularly when the required resources are outside of their campus environment.

We invite you and colleagues at your institution to participate in the Eastern Regional Network’s (ERN) Broadening the Reach (BTR) workshop on December 10 - December 11. The workshop is bringing together representatives (including CIOs and/or provosts, vice presidents for research, researchers, educators, and technical support staff) from the small, mid-sized and under-resourced schools in the Northeast, including MSIs, HSIs, HBCUs, and EPSCoR institutions, along with regional (and national) cyberinfrastructure experts with the goal of improving the Eastern Regional Network’s understanding of how best to support under-resourced academic institutions in the region.

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The vision of the federated collaboratories will require the development of many layers of abstractions ranging from hardware, networking, federation architecture, scientific workflows, and domain-specific models and tools to enable collaborative discovery. The ERN Architecture and Federation working group are focused on gathering information and discussing what the “federated collaboratory” might look like from both a hardware and software perspective as well as what federation should look like as we strive for a seamless collaborative sharing experience.

As a member of the ERN community, or attendee of the ERN All Hands Meeting in July, we invite you to participate in the Eastern Regional Network’s Architecture and Federation workshop December 2nd - 4th. The workshop is currently scheduled to cover the following topics:

-Authentication, authorization and access

-Data storage and transfer

-Network connectivity

-Federated infrastructures science driver use cases

Discussions following each session’s presentations will help in the understanding of how best to model the federated instrument promoting collaboration and scientific
advancement.

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Breakout session leads will give a high level overview of what was discussed in their respective sessions and the working groups formed.