The Strategic Goals of the Sid Project are our highest-level guide.
Our goals:
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Provide focused researcher support to the social science community with an emphasis on improving the user experience for researchers working with sensitive data.
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Support IQSS users with an expanded backend infrastructure (i.e. VMs, DBs, …) and a multitenant secure research environment in collaboration with Faculty of Arts and Sciences Research Computing group (FASRC).
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Re-orient the Sid research platform features to benefit the user experience for all FAS RC High Performance Computing (HPC) cluster users.
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Lead development of research computing based Software Products that support a broad scope of researchers across the Harvard Community.
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Provide access to additional Harvard apps such as Dataverse and Worldmap from a common framework.
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Participate in the HPC open source community, focused on the Open OnDemand HPC User Interface.
Throughout the year, we'll identify big steps that we can take to focus on one or more of these goals. These big steps are detailed on our Roadmap, below.
The big things the team is working on right now are shown in the Implementation section. In the Planning/Design section, you can see those strategic items that we've prioritized. In the Future section, you'll see the things that we'd like to work on but haven't yet prioritized.