[Outsourcing] Success story of outsourcing an RSE department

[CaptainSifff]

there are number of profitable university associated companies out there. As it stands all of them seem profitable. Why do these profits have to go outside? They seem to work, but it seems to be symptoms of a cancerous system...

[CaptainSifff]

https://cares.institute/

[dokempf]

https://heigit.org/de/willkommen/

[dokempf]

We are still looking for a "true success story". By "true" I here mean that it actually provided a benefit that it would not have had as an internal institution. If anyone happening to read this has one - please tell us about it.

[jngrad]

We could draw some inspiration from the HPC community, where HPC-RSEs are working at national competence centers (NCCs, full list) to provide training, consulting, networking for academic and industry actors. See e.g. NCC Germany which is affiliated to the Gauss Supercomputing Center or NCC Austria which can assist in writing funding proposals.

For more information, see their success stories booklets:

• Members of FF4EuroHPC Consortium, editor. FF4EuroHPC Success Stories. Arctur, Nova Gorica, Slovenia, 1st edition, November 2022. ISBN 978-961-94587-3-0. URL: https://www.ff4eurohpc.eu/mma/FF4HPC_booklet_spreads-web.pdf/2023013117273747/1675182457.
• Members of EuroCC Consortium, editor. EuroCC Success Stories. HLRS, Stuttgart, Germany, 1st edition, May 2023. URL: https://www.eurocc-access.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/EuroCC_booklet_2023_final.pdf.
• Members of Fortissimo Consortium, editor. Fortissimo Success Stories. EPCC and Arctur, Edinburgh, United Kingdom and Nova Gorica, Slovenia, 6th edition, January 2019. ISBN 978-961-94587-0-9. URL: https://www.ff4eurohpc.eu/mma/Fortissimo_SS_Booklet_web.pdf/2020101509292649/1602746967.