Since 2015, the XSEDE Cyberinfrastructure Resource Integration (XCRI) team has engaged in a series of on-site visits of various types with institutions wishing to implement research computing resources in a way that gains from the lessons learned by larger XSEDE Resource Providers. The team originally developed a variety of flexible toolkits for such institutions, with the intent that they could be picked up at will and used to bootstrap local research computing programs by interested folks. In practice, the real value provided by the XCRI has proven to be the deep side-by-side work, mentorship, and focus on relationship building that comes along with carrying out a site visit. While the in-person aspect of these visits ceased of necessity beginning in 2020, activities continued in a distributed fashion, which proved to be a boon for several reasons. This paper provides an overview of the site visit process, and an exploration of the deep benefits of these remote collaborations, which are an efficient way to spread RCD knowledge to under-resourced institutions.

research-article Share on Beyond Campus Bridging: A retrospective of Cyberinfrastructure Integration Efforts Authors: J. Eric Coulter Science Gateways Research Center, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA Science Gateways Research Center, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USAView Profile , Rich Knepper Center for Advanced Computing, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA Center for Advanced Computing, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USAView Profile , Resa Reynolds Center for Advanced Computing, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA Center for Advanced Computing, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USAView Profile , Jodie Sprouse Center for Advanced Computing, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA Center for Advanced Computing, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USAView Profile , Stephen Bird Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USAView Profile Authors Info & Claims PEARC '19: Proceedings of the Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing on Rise of the Machines (learning)July 2019 Article No.: 93Pages 1–4https://doi.org/10.1145/3332186.3333151Published:28 July 2019Publication History 1citation59DownloadsMetricsTotal Citations1Total Downloads59Last 12 Months1Last 6 weeks1 Get Citation AlertsNew Citation Alert added!This alert has been successfully added and will be sent to:You will be notified whenever a record that you have chosen has been cited.To manage your alert preferences, click on the button below.Manage my AlertsNew Citation Alert!Please log in to your account Save to BinderSave to BinderCreate a New BinderNameCancelCreateExport CitationPublisher SiteGet Access