A Statewide Model to Advance Research Computing Initiatives
Supported by an NSF planning grant, CIAO (Cyberinfrastructure Alliance for Oregon) is a statewide community of practice focused on strategic research computing and technology infrastructure collaboration across Oregon’s higher education institutions.
CIAO’s mission is to expand higher education institutional engagement by reducing barriers to cyberinfrastructure resource sharing, enhancing the productivity and impact of NSF-funded research, and increasing access to STEM and AI training—especially at smaller colleges—to strengthen Oregon’s technology talent pipeline.
CC* Strategy-Region: Cyberinfrastructure Alliance for Oregon (CIAO)
Award: #2503219
Lead PI: Christy Long, associate CIO for technology infrastructure, University of Oregon
Co-PIs: Steve Corbató, (former) executive director, Link Oregon; David Barber, director of strategy for research computing, Oregon State University; Will Pazner, Asst Professor of Mathematics and Statistics, Portland State University.
Accelerating Scientific Innovation and Discovery
at Oregon’s Public Universities
From improving ocean health and climate resilience through plankton research to pioneering precision cancer treatments to next-generation electron microscopy, Oregon’s public universities are driving innovations across disciplines. A strategic statewide collaboration model, the Cyberinfrastructure Alliance of Oregon (CIAO), will accelerate this work by removing barriers to shared cyberinfrastructure resources and expanding access for smaller, under-resourced institutions. Link Oregon’s advanced research and education network underpins these efforts, enabling fast, secure data sharing and cross-institution collaboration. Learn what Oregon researchers are exploring in the video below!
Oregon Regional Computing Accelerator (ORCA) is funded by the National Science Foundation and hosted at Portland State University (PSU). This new high-performance computing (HPC) cluster offers free access to researchers at universities and colleges all across Oregon, giving them the ability to advance compute-intensive research projects.
Watch the video below to hear Portland State University student Kaj Hansteen Izora talk to Gary Sandine, CISO and Computing Infrastructure Services Associate Director at Portland State University, about using ORCA and simulated data for a robotics project.
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Award: #2503219
Lead PI: Dr. William Pazner, Asst. Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Portland State University
Co-PIs: Greg Anderson, asst. professor of computer science, Reed College; Steve Corbató, (former) executive director, Link Oregon; Josef Dufek, professor and chair of earth sciences from the University of Oregon; Mark Keever, executive director of digital research infrastructure at Oregon State University
OREGON INNOVATES
“The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.“
– Linus Pauling, two-time Nobel Laureate, native Oregonian