ACCESS Support�(Multi-tier Assistance, Training, and Computational Help (MATCH))

• Alana Romanella, University of Colorado Boulder

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• OpenCI Award: OCI 21-38296

Welcome! Who Am I?

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Alana Romanella (alana.romanella@colorado.edu)

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Cyberinfrastructure Community Organizer

University of Colorado Boulder

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15+ years in Higher Education

• Community Engagement
• Diversity and Inclusion
• National Ticketing System
• Student Efforts
• Metrics and Reporting
• General Co-Chair of PEARC23 (join us in Portland!)

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PI for Support(MATCH): Shelley Knuth, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Research Computing, University of Colorado Boulder

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Support: Multi-tier Assistance, Training, and Computational Help (MATCH)

$10M, 5-year grant

University of Colorado Boulder

University of Kentucky

University of Southern California

Ohio Supercomputer Center

Massachusetts Green High-Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC)

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Theme: providing equitable, scalable support to best enable research on NSF-funded cyberinfrastructure

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Support Pyramid of Services and Growth

Pegasus and Open OnDemand

Open OnDemand

• Improve user experience with an easy-to-use interface to access complex cyberinfrastructure
• Templates to run jobs/transfer data

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Pegasus: Workflow Manager

• Input data -> Compute Job -> Output data
• Complex data workflows
• Reproducible
• Provenance which ensures data integrity

�ACCESS Support Portal: One-Stop “Shop”

ACCESS Support Portal

• Connect.CI (https://Cnct.CI)
• Originally developed for Northeast Cyberteam

Functions:

• Community Management
• Knowledge Base Repository
• Affinity Groups

Computational Science Support Network and Knowledge Base

• Goal
• Encourage researchers to contribute to Knowledge Base and other activities to support and enable computationally intensive research
• Community Engagement Program incentivizes/rewards participation
• Community Grants solicit new content creation
• Contribution Rewards recognize participation/contributions from experts in the field

CSSN - Join

• Strategy
• Provide a platform to crowdsource up-to-the-minute knowledge base entries from subject matter experts in the CSSN
• Selectively develop high-impact content, using heatmaps
• Knowledge Base Elements

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Knowledge Base – Use

MATCH Plus

Need

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• Users often need short-term assistance transitioning to a new resource (e.g local cluster to ACCESS resource), or removing a roadblock (e.g. replacing a stage in a workflow to better performance/scale)

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MATCH Plus Approach

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• Matching each project with a student and an experienced mentor
• 6-month engagement
• Build on experience managing complex collaborative projects with distributed teams
• Regular touchpoints

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MATCH Premier

Need

• Extensive collaborative engagements
• Optimize applications
• Improve workflows
• Parallelize codes

MATCH Approach

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• Researchers request support
• Consultants recruited from CSSN Researchers fund consultants out of grant funds or supplements
• Consultants meet monthly

Opportunities for General Engagement: �We are looking for YOU to join us!�

Travel Support ($750-$2500) via the Community Engagement Program

Community Grants

Seeking Mentors and Students (stipends $7,500) for MATCH Plus

Advisory committees ($2500) – we need your input!� Community Grants Committee - FULL� MATCH Plus and MATCH Premier Steering committees

Ask.CI Moderators Committee

https://support.access-ci.org/ccep-pilot

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Create an affinity group:� Groups with members who have shared interests – can provide slack channels, Q&A forums, and knowledge base resources

https://support.access-ci.org/affinity-groups �

Join our mailing list!

https://support.access-ci.org/cssn