Performance Measures & Objectives

We have defined numerous metrics for LI success, including hiring of researchers, starting statewide interdisciplinary research projects and obtaining national funding, developing corporate partnership programs and companies, ensuring interdisciplinary and multi-institutional collaboration, and creating new education programs. The LI management will closely monitor these measures, and take action as needed to ensure they are met or exceeded.

Personnel
Objective	Metric	Success Criteria
LONI Fellows	Full-time faculty hires (2/3 senior faculty, 1/3 junior faculty)	10 by EO Y1; 15 (total) by EOY2; 18 by EOY3; 6 additional faculty in other areas by Y5. Nucleation of 12 new multi-institional research groups by Y3.
LI Associated Faculty	Summer support provided	28 per year in each year; over 100 total
Scientific Coordinator	Person hired	1 hire, fall Y1; new hire in 6 months if vacant
ED Coordinator	Person hired	1 hire, fall Y1; new hire in 6 months if vacant
LI graduate students	Graduate students funded by LI	12 in each two-year period; 36 total; all students externally funded before PhD
LI Computational Scientists	Staff hired	6 hired by fall Y1; new staff hired in 6 months if position(s) becomes vacant
Additional LONI fellows added	Number of additional faculty, additional disciplines	2 more faculty per site; additional application discipline of importance to State (coastal modeling, astrophysics, petroleum engineering) by EOY4
LI Growth of LONI to national status	Receive federal funding for additional staff	12 staff funded from federal sources by EOY5
Research
Objective	Metric	Success Criteria
LONI Computational Scientists	LI projects underway	12 new projects underway by EOY1; 18 new projects per year thereafter; 84 total; 25% projects permitted to be continued for new advances; 25% corporate
State faculty, staff, and student trained and using LONI infrastructure	Number of applications for time, projects using compute, data, network, and software services	All LI projects use LONI, 400 active users from State, 12 from each LI members, medical centers and community college system
National proposals	LI-funded faculty-led national agency proposals, submitted, funded	50% of LI projects lead to funding from outside the State (e.g., NSF, DOE, NIH) or industrial funding in Y2 and subsequent years; 2 additional submitted per year, per Fellow, starting in Y2, 100 total, 20 new projects funded total
Research computing project resources	Successful computational infrastructure/cycle applications	50% of projects lead to nationally-judged computational infrastructure awards in Y2 and subsequent years
Research publicity	Invited presentations and lectures outside LA	Each project leads to 2 per year starting in Y2; 160 total
Scientific & Engineering Results	Peer-reviewed conference and journal publications that acknowledge LI support	3 per LONI Fellow per year; 1 per Associated Faculty per year; over 150 total
National Computing Center	LI personnel successful	1 national federally-funded computing facility, funded with at least $70M
LI research impact	New non-LI-funded faculty working with LI	6 per year starting in Y2
Economic Development
Objective	Metric	Success Criteria
Student internships with companies	Number	6 students place each year; 30 total (not all will be LI-funded)
Pilot program with Council on Competitiveness	Established	20 students at community college trained in CSs each year, 50 total placed in companies, 20 enter universities for continued study in CSs
Industrial partnerships	Partnerships in projects with industrial partner	25% of total projects; 20 partners in 5 years
Industry grants	Sponsored research from companies	30 by Y5
Centers of Excellence (UIRCs)	Number formed with multi-year duration	1 by EOY3, 3 by EOY4, 6 by EOY5, all industry-funded with at least 1 industry staff member on-site
Companies formed	Number of new companies	1 by EOY3, 3 by EOY4, 6 by EOY5
Collaboration
Objective	Metric	Success Criteria
Between computational scientists and biologists, materials	Joint papers and proposals	2 interdisciplinary papers (including preprints from a LI preprint series) per group per year; 1 at interface between bio, materials, computation per group per year; 50% of proposals have 2 of 3 disciplines
Inter-university	Number of joint papers, proposals	2 papers, 1 proposal (including preprints from a LI preprint series) per group per year
Inter-university	New joint projects	30 new multi-university projects proposed to SC per year
National	Visits to national labs	6 students, 2 staff, and 12 faculty with visits to national labs per year, 4-6 each summer
Education & Training
Objective	Metric	Success Criteria
Statewide education	HD video courses offered	4 courses per year with students from 4 universities, and 20 total students per course receiving credit.
Statewide training	Number of training workshops, people trained	4 HPC & CSs workshops offered per year, 100 people trained each year, 500 total
High school education	Summer camps	2 per year
High school courses	Teachers offer LI-related material in courses	10 new per year starting in Y2

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"Louisiana has made great investments in IT through its Vision 2020 initiative and through the creation of LONI. Now that we have the resources in place, we need to develop research projects and find the staff who can use the advanced technology in Louisiana to further academics and create more opportunities for business and industry so we can fully capitalize on these investments."
-- CCT Director Ed Seidel, principal investigator for the PKSFI proposal