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PANEL: RSE AND HPC CENTERS

Carol Song, Ph.D.

Chief Scientist

Director of Scientific Solutions

http://www.rcac.purdue.edu/about/staff/cxsong

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Rosen Center for Advanced Computing, Purdue University

  • We’ve been HPC resource provider to TeraGrid, XSEDE, OSG
  • Anvil is our latest system, available through ACCESS
  • HUBzero originated here, now in San Diego, 20 years strong
  • Sponsored projects
    • CSSI, DIBBs, CC*, CyberTraining, HDR
    • Partnerships in many interdisciplinary projects

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HPC center

System engineering

User & applications support

Scientific Solutions (RSE)

Envision center (RSE)

Training & outreach

Administrative, comm

The Anvil composable system

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The roles of RSEs in our organization

Internal-facing vs External-facing

Building tools for managing center operations

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  • Community CI model (HPC cluster nodes, storage, cloud resources, workbench access)
    • Order
    • Tracking
    • reporting

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  • Improve data collection

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  • Integrate with other CIs

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  • Training, student programs

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Develop new CI capabilities, workflows, applications, science gateways/VREs

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  • Consult
  • Technology evaluation
  • Lead/collaborate on grant proposals
  • Design
  • Implementation
  • Deploy
  • Maintain
  • Provide technical support
  • Operate science gateways
  • Re-architect existing codebase
  • Teach/train RSE practices

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Examples from RCAC 2022 Annual Report

Come to our booth #3442 and get a copy

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