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UND Division of Research
Cyberinfrastructure (CI) Plan

Priority Action Area D – Software
Goal One: Make off-the-shelf CI software packages available to all faculty, staff, and students.

Action Plan:

1. Identify campus-wide CI software needs.
2. Negotiate purchase of campus-wide licenses where economically feasible.
3. Develop support and training for software.
4. Market the availability of software.
5. Explore streamlining software purchase process.

Goal Two: Provide support for implementing custom code on current institutional computational systems where economically feasible.

Action Plan:

1. Maintain appropriate build environments
2. Hire and/or train appropriate support staff
3. Convert code to modern computer languages when beneficial.
4. Implement required free libraries on computational systems
5. Purchase commercial libraries for computational systems.
6. Market available resources.

Goal Three: Make available to faculty, staff, students, and campus partners a variety of visualization authoring and display software for: 3D rendering, video playback, and interactive environments.

Action Plan:

1. Purchase commercial 3D-authoring, rendering, and display software.
2. Purchase software development kits for constructing interactive visualization environments.
3. Develop information and training activities.
4. Market available resources.