TY - GEN
T1 - XSEDE value added, cost avoidance, and return on investment
AU - Stewart, Craig A.
AU - Moore, Richard L.
AU - Roskies, Ralph
AU - Whitt, Justin
AU - Knepper, Richard
AU - Cockerill, Timothy M.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 Copyright is held by the owner/author(s).
PY - 2015/7/26
Y1 - 2015/7/26
N2 - It is difficult for large research facilities to quantify a return on the investments that fund their operations. This is because there can be a time lag of years or decades between an innovation or discovery and the realization of its value through practical application. This report presents a three-part methodology that attempts to assess the value of federal investment in XSEDE: 1) a qualitative examination of the areas where XSEDE adds value to the activities of the open research community, 2) a "thought model" examining the cost avoidance realized by the National Science Foundation (NSF) through the centralization and coordination XSEDE provides, and 3) an assessment of the value XSEDE provides to Service Providers in the XD ecosystem. XSEDE adds significantly to the US research community because it functions as a unified interface to the XD ecosystem and because of its scale. A partly quantitative, partly qualitative analysis suggests the Return on Investment of NSF spending on XSEDE is greater than 1.0, indicating that the aggregate value received by the nation from XSEDE is greater than the cost of direct federal investment in XSEDE.
AB - It is difficult for large research facilities to quantify a return on the investments that fund their operations. This is because there can be a time lag of years or decades between an innovation or discovery and the realization of its value through practical application. This report presents a three-part methodology that attempts to assess the value of federal investment in XSEDE: 1) a qualitative examination of the areas where XSEDE adds value to the activities of the open research community, 2) a "thought model" examining the cost avoidance realized by the National Science Foundation (NSF) through the centralization and coordination XSEDE provides, and 3) an assessment of the value XSEDE provides to Service Providers in the XD ecosystem. XSEDE adds significantly to the US research community because it functions as a unified interface to the XD ecosystem and because of its scale. A partly quantitative, partly qualitative analysis suggests the Return on Investment of NSF spending on XSEDE is greater than 1.0, indicating that the aggregate value received by the nation from XSEDE is greater than the cost of direct federal investment in XSEDE.
KW - Advanced cyberinfrastructure
KW - Cost avoidance
KW - ROI
KW - Return on investment
KW - Value added
KW - XSEDE
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84942788633&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/2792745.2792768
DO - 10.1145/2792745.2792768
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84942788633
T3 - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
BT - Proceedings of the XSEDE 2015 Conference
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 4th Annual Conference on Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment, XSEDE 2015
Y2 - 26 July 2015 through 30 July 2015
ER -