The Campus Research Computing Consortium (CaRCC) is pleased to announce that a new version of the RCD Capabilities Model assessment tool is now available and ready to use. This new web-based version of the assessment tool offers a much better user experience and is backed by a database that provides a more robust platform for data analysis. A new online data exploration and benchmarking portal will also be launched in early 2024.
Why participate in the Capabilities Model?
The Capabilities Model allows participating institutions to:
- Assess their support for computationally- and data-intensive research.
- Identify potential areas for improvement.
- Understand how the broader community views Research Computing and Data support.
Contributing institutions help build the Community Dataset, and enrich the resulting picture we have of our community. You will get access to the benchmarking functionality on the new portal that compares your assessment to the community at-large, as well as segments of the community (R1s, R2s, Public or Private institutions, etc.; on the new portal you can define your benchmarking peer groups!). As a contributor, you will also get access to more detailed reporting functionality on the new portal, to dig into the data and create custom visualizations. Although summary data will be publicly available, only contributors will have access to the detailed data and custom visualization feature.
How to get started
Whether you are from one of the 56 institutions that have submitted past assessments, or if you are an organization interested in submitting for the first time, use our Quick Start Guide to walk you through the process of using the new tool.
And please keep reading for details on how to get help if you have questions!
Have questions or need help?
We have developed an integrated collection of help documents for the new tool.
You can also get help, including advice on how to approach your assessment, understanding the questions, and interpreting the results by emailing capsmodel-help@carcc.org, or joining our Capabilities Model Office Hours on the second Tuesday of each month at 1pm ET.
Subscribe to the capsmodel-discuss@carcc.org discussion list (click here to join), to hear how other institutions are completing their assessment and using it as part of strategic planning.
Want more information?
To find more information and background on the RCD Capabilities Model visit the RCD Nexus website.
This work is supported by RCD Nexus, an NSF CI Center of Excellence Pilot under grant OAC-2100003, and the Campus Research Computing Consortium (CaRCC).