Strengthens CIROH’s digital infrastructure through modern DevOps practices, keeping platforms and tools reliable, scalable, and secure. Supports the community around R2OHC cyberinfrastructure, NGIAB, Research Datastream (NRDS), and other open-source repositories, and shares documentation, trainings, and news.
Leads: Arpita Patel, The University of Alabama
Reporting period: 2025-2026 (updated October 2026)
Objectives
Provide inputs for the CIROH cyberinfrastructure roadmaps to meet community and research needs, governance documents, cybersecurity protocols, and documentation for products/tools developed/deployed using CIROH IT.
Plan and develop the roadmap for community open source projects, develop governance and a PR review process, and implement CI/CD pipelines, automated tests and monitoring frameworks to accelerate deployment cycles.
Establish community contribution guidelines for documentation on CIROH Hub and governance, and help the community adopt IT and DevOps tools and processes.
Provide technical assistance and training sessions, and collaboratively develop articles/publications/presentations.
Accomplishments
Held monthly virtual meetings.
Integrated 10+ models into NextGen In A Box (NGIAB) (Objective #2).
Expanded research datastream configurations using NGIAB to 6 active datastreams.
Supported extensive cloud and HPC usage, recording 76 users on AWS, 95 on GCP + 2i2c, 71 on Pantarhei + Wukong, and 141 on NSF ACCESS (Objective #1).
Merged the DocuHub and Portal repositories and deployed the CIROH Hub in March 2026 with new apps, documents and improved accessibility. Helped drive the total number of blogs to 30 (Objective #2).
CIROH Hub serves as the centralized place for CIROH resources, totaling 36 applications, 45 datasets, 271 publications, 40 presentations, 7 notebooks, and 19 courses as of September 2026 (Objective #2).
Three papers from research projects (NGIAB, CCNH and NRDS (in review)) published by working group members (Objective #4).
Two presentations by group members about research projects (CCNH, NRDS) (Objective #4).
Identified six training workshops for the Community NextGen track in the 2026 CIROH Developers Conference (Objective #4).