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EDUCAUSE ECAR Research Study on
Cyberinfrastructure
(forgive the unusually large number of CNI-announce messages
today; there's a lot happening.)
The EDUCAUSE ECAR program has just made available a major
research study by Mark Sheehan titled "Higher Education IT and
Cyberinfrastructure: Integrating Technologies for Scholarship."
Here's the abstract:
This 2008 ECAR research study
explores higher education's involvement in five areas of
research-related information technologies: high-performance computing
resources, cyberinfrastructure applications and tools, data storage
and management resources, advanced network infrastructure resources,
and resources for collaboration within virtual communities. The
report, which is based on results of a quantitative survey of 369 U.S.
and Canadian colleges and universities and consultation with
cyberinfrastructure experts and 12 university executives and technical
staff members, discusses who uses, who provides, and who funds
cyberinfrastructure resources as well as how important each technology
is and will be to research and teaching.
EDUCAUSE has kindly made the report available to all, and it can
be found in various formats at:
http://connect.educause.edu/Library/ECAR/HigherEducationITandCyber/46577
Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI
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