Sixth National Research Platform (6NRP) Workshop

The Workshop will cover both the current state of NRP as well as its future direction and long-term viability and success. Several tutorials will be offered on Tuesday, January 28th that will help attendees learn how to access NRP's distributed campus-owned compute cloud and allied resources.

The main conference program on Wednesday/Thursday, January 29th & 30th will include sessions on CENIC AIR, AI Education on NRP, NRP as an accelerant for widespread exploration of future technologies, science on NRP, among others. 

The 6NRP Workshop will bring together more than 100 representatives from NRP partners, and many other institutions, who support domain scientists, network and system administrators, and campus CIOs.

We will also invite regional network leaders, The Quilt, and representatives of ESnet, Internet2, ACCESS, the Open Science Grid (OSG), the National Data Platform, the Open Storage Network (OSN), the OpenAirInterface, NSF IRNC awardees, NSF Program Directors, leaders of the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) section of the NSF Office of Integrative Activities (OIA), and the Global Research Platform. 

They will discuss expanding/replicating the NRP addressing the potential challenges, funding opportunities, and private sector interest in scaling the Science DMZ model to a national level with the National Research Platform as a fully working, welcoming, and expandable model.