(forgive the unusually large number of CNI-announce messages today; there's a lot happening.)

The EDUCAUSE ECAR program has just made available a major research study by Mark Sheehan titled "Higher Education IT and Cyberinfrastructure: Integrating Technologies for Scholarship." Here's the abstract:

This 2008 ECAR research study explores higher education's involvement in five areas of research-related information technologies: high-performance computing resources, cyberinfrastructure applications and tools, data storage and management resources, advanced network infrastructure resources, and resources for collaboration within virtual communities. The report, which is based on results of a quantitative survey of 369 U.S. and Canadian colleges and universities and consultation with cyberinfrastructure experts and 12 university executives and technical staff members, discusses who uses, who provides, and who funds cyberinfrastructure resources as well as how important each technology is and will be to research and teaching.

EDUCAUSE has kindly made the report available to all, and it can be found in various formats at:

Clifford Lynch Director, CNI