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College of Information ScienceComputing Resources Working Group · Point people: Barney Maccabe and Greg Chism

Supplement

Detailed references and working materials, grouped by purpose. Start with the overview, resource inventory or report for the main assessment.

Working-group materials

Material Use
Four deliverables Inventory, needs, approaches and recommendations
Needs assessment Evaluate barriers and participation without inventing demand
Approaches · Recommendations Compare options and separate college actions from university dependencies
Milestones · Working session Semester targets and a suggested discussion format
Working packet Download the combined working materials
Needs register · Recommendation register Blank templates for an agreed university collection process

Platform references

Reference Focus
Detailed platform directory Match a type of work to comparison pages
Federal platforms ACCESS, OSPool, MESA/CyVerse and related services
Campus AI transition ORAI update, planned credit and supplied model prices
Cloud credits and GPUs Modal and alternatives, including billing boundaries
Classroom platforms · Classroom 50 Notebooks, assignment workflows and evaluation tools
Repositories, hosting and databases Ownership, storage, exports and preservation
Earlier degree comparison Activity-specific examples; not a college-wide needs assessment

Instructional-computing pilot

Supporting proposal, not the working group’s selected strategy. ACCESS is the intended CPU + GPU route. Campus AWS is for component testing; bounded free GPUs support preliminary benchmarks. The pilot has $0 cash and Greg’s four total hours/week; TA and course-lead effort is separate. Allocations, funding and classroom readiness remain unconfirmed.

Material Use
DS/MLIS pilot · Pilot stages Course concepts and staged decisions
Route assessment · ACCESS request Service fit and an unsubmitted request draft
Benchmarks · Download runnable tests CPU components and GPU notebooks
Optional compute estimator Planning quantities, peak demand and storage
Hours and grant dependencies · Classroom checks Support envelope and 13 planned readiness checks

Evidence and presentation