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RSE Participation in HPC

Miranda Mundt

RSE-HPC-2021

SAND2021-14010 C

November 15, 2021

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Exceptional service in the national interest

Sandia National Laboratories is a multimission laboratory managed and operated by National Technology and Engineering Solutions of Sandia LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Honeywell International Inc. for the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration under contract DE-NA0003525.

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Research Software Engineer

  • Background in Mathematics
    • Applied Mathematics
    • Computational Mathematics
    • Economics
  • Practitioner
    • Pyomo
    • Spack-CM
  • Researcher
    • Incentivizing Software Quality
    • Mentorship for RSEs
  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Working Group with the US-RSE

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Support

  • Software Engineering & Research Group at Sandia
    • Institutional support for SWE work
    • Managerial support for research work

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  • Mentorship & Training
    • Peer Mentoring network at Sandia
    • Ample training opportunities for:
      • Technical Skills
      • Leadership Skills
      • Soft Skills

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Challenges

  • Matrixed Time
    • Fractured focus
    • Competing deadlines and goals

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  • Funding Disparity
    • Unclear time charging guidelines for career development opportunities

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  • Promotion Path
    • Minimal established promotion / growth �opportunities
    • Focus for organization is publishable research,�not tools, services, or software products

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