What is it about?
This article takes the concept of "Return on Investment" (ROI) and applies it to US Federal Investment in XSEDE (eXtreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment) - a major US cyberinfrastructure allocation and support service. ROI is a cost accounting term and it is usually calculated as "value from sales or services" divided by "cost to deliver sales or services." Great idea.... but XSEDE allocates its services without cost to the US research community. We calculated something we called ROIproxy by taking published market values of services delivered by XSEDE and dividing that by the cost to the US Federal Government of funding XSEDE/
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Why is it important?
This analysis showed that the US Federal Government gets about $1.5 in value of services delivered to the US research community for every $1 it spends to fund XSEDE. And this calculation does not include the value of the scientific results enabled by XSEDE.
Perspectives
There are often questions about whether or not federal investments in science are cost effective. This paper shows conclusively that federal investment in XSEDE has in fact been very effective.
craig stewart
Indiana University Bloomington
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This page is a summary of: Metrics of financial effectiveness: Return On Investment in XSEDE, a national cyberinfrastructure coordination and support organization, July 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery),
DOI: 10.1145/3491418.3530287.
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