UVA has won a $2.5M NSF MRI award, led by Ron Hutchins, VP of IT and a member of the Computer Science Department. This is a partnership between the UVA Main Campus and UVA Wise, with Wise formally taking the lead.The University of Virginia at Wise (UVA-Wise) and the University of Virginia Main Campus are collaborating with ten other public universities in Virginia to develop ACCORD, an innovative research-computing cyberinstrument to support the storage, access, and usage of sensitive data. ACCORD is accessible to researchers at participating institutions across the State. Beyond simply securing research data, the ACCORD cyberinstrument provides customizable secured research environments that can be integrated into each institution's workflows and security models to assure compliance with relevant laws and regulations applicable to specific data types. Through ACCORD, researchers have access to new research computing capabilities not previously accessible, enabling them to undertake projects that require complex protection of sensitive data. In addition to enabling new research, ACCORD advances important dimensions of research such as reproducibility and data accountability. ACCORD is also a new model for collaboration, providing a common platform for researchers at multiple institutions and in different disciplines to securely share data and analytics.
Ron Hutchins is the UVA PI, and Senior Personnel from UVA include:
Scott Bevins, UVA Wise Associate Provost for Information Services & CIO
Tho Nguyen, Computer Science Senior Scientist
PIs from other collaborating universities include:
Scott Midkiff, VT Vice-President for IT and CIO
Deb Crawford, GMU Vice-President for Research
Masha Sosonkina, ODU Professor of Modeling and Simulation
Thomas Cheatham, U. of Utah Director of Research Computing and Professor of Medicinal Chemistry
Partner institutions:
Virginia Tech, George Mason University, Old Dominion University, College of William and Mary, Virginia Commonwealth University, Norfolk State University, James Madison University, Virginia State University, and Radford University.
UVA and UVA Wise are the leading the effort.