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The Cyberinfrastructure Leadership Academy series, jointly led by the Virtual Residency Program and the Coalition for Academic Scientific Computation, was designed to achieve three primary goals: (a) teaching emerging/institutional CI leaders to become national CI leaders; (b) mentoring and peer mentoring among emerging/institutional and senior/national CI leaders; and (c) teaching emerging/institutional CI leaders how to be more effective in their current roles. 

This workshop is designed engages emerging and current CI leaders toward improving institutional CI leadership capabilities and to prepare for national leadership at federal agencies. Objectives include:

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Coalition for National Science Funding

CNSF is a diverse coalition of more than 130 scientific organizations, universities, businesses, and other groups united by a concern for the future vitality of the national science, mathematics, and engineering enterprise. CNSF supports the goal of increasing the national investment in the National Science Foundation’s research and education programs in response to the unprecedented scientific, technological and economic opportunities facing the United States

CASC regularly joins CNSF letters supporting investment in the National Science Foundation, and participates in the annual CNSF exhibit and reception on Capitol Hill. The exhibit typically attracts Members of Congress, Congressional staff from both House and Senate, and NSF leadership. CASC has been a sponsor of past CNSF exhibits and receptions, providing increased visibility for scientific research supported by the National Science Foundation.

CASC is an advocate of the Women in High Performance Computing (WHPC), whose vision is to encourage women to participate in the high performance computing community through fellowship, education and support to women and the organizations and employ them.

Through collaboration and networking, WHPC strives to bring together women in HPC and technical computing while encouraging women to engage in outreach activities and improve the visibility of inspirational role models.

Regulated Research Community of Practice is composed of research institutions, many of whom are CASC members, that support research subject to compliance regulations, working together to grow the knowledge pool and produce efficiencies.

Their mission states: The daily news clearly shows the increasing threat to safety and privacy of data, personal as well as intellectual property. While the requirements such as DFARS 7012, HIPAA, and Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) improve the consistency of data handling between agencies and contractors and grantees, it leaves academic institutions to figure out how to meet such requirements in a cost-effective way that fits the research and education mission of the institution. Most institutions, agencies, and companies act in isolation with one-off contract language to address data security and safeguarding concerns. Even though cybersecurity has a clear and uniform goal of protecting data, a onesize solution does not fit all academic institutions.

By supporting this community with development of a community strategic roadmap, regular discussions and workshops, and a repository of generalized and specific resources for handling regulated research programs RRCoP lowers the barrier to entry for institutions handling new regulations.

CASC has partnered with the Steering Committee of the Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing (PEARC) Conference as part of its mission to foster a vibrant and diverse community of professionals who are working toward a robust, sustainable ecosystem of research computing and data services. 

CASC also engages the community at the annual PEARC conference, supporting the technical and student programs as an exhibitor each year and hosting an event to allow members to network with the community.

The Susan Fratkin Scholarship was established by the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) in honor of an ambassador for high performance computing (HPC) workforce development and a distinguished leader in state and federal relations

CASC has joined TACC as a sustaining partner for the Sue Fratkin Scholarship. Sue Fratkin played a central role in the founding of CASC and served as the CASC Washington Liaison for 25 years. We are excited to recognize Sue’s commitment to science, computation, and the academic community through this scholarship and help grow the workforce in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines. 

The Susan Fratkin Scholarship aims to address educational inequities and support undergraduate student persistence in higher education. Specifically, scholarships will be awarded to Code@TACC alumni, majority are women and/or from underrepresented populations in STEM disciplines (African American/Black, Hispanic/Latinx, Native, Indigenous).

CaRCC – the Campus Research Computing Consortium – is an organization of dedicated professionals developing, advocating for, and advancing campus research computing and data* and associated professions. Current focus areas include building community among research computing and data professionals, connecting the broader research computing and data ecosystem (see the People Network), professionalization and workforce development, and defining stakeholders and shared value propositions for the community at a time of accelerating change.

CASC and CaRCC leadership are collaborating to leverage our organizations to advocate for and advance research computing and data capabilities and professionals at academic institutions. Our joint value proposition is as follows:

• Amplify the needs, issues, and importance of a diversified and representative RCD community
• Leverage the RCD community to jointly produce useful information, positions, and or reports 
• Explore and/or share engagement opportunities within our respective communities
• Work together on projects initiatives, and/or outcomes that support both our missions and visions
• Develop a communications strategy between the organizations that amplifies each others’ efforts

The Minority Serving – Cyberinfrastructure Consortium (MS-CC) envisions a transformational partnership to promote advanced cyberinfrastructure (CI) capabilities on the campuses of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs), Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs), and other Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs).
The MS-CC focuses on building a trusted community among institutions to advance the following efforts:

• Workforce Development
• Community & Capacity Building
• Research Support & Acceleration

CASC is involved in HPC.Social, community-based open launched in November 2023. Included is a Mastodon instance (https://mast.hpc.social) made available to the community and a web site at https://hpc.social to accomplish similar goals. The expectation is that https://hpc.social will become a resource to promote informal, community-driven exchanges of information in the HPC and related community backed up by resources such as a GitHub area for joint projects, social media for sharing of information, and optional mailing lists, if needed. Relevant organizations will be referenced to avoid duplication.