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Campus Research Computing Consortium (CaRCC)

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CaRCC Nexus Student Workforce 14 February, 2023

Anita Orendt and Betsy Hillery

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carcc.org rcd-nexus.org

Agenda

• Welcome
• Nexus Student Survey Updates
• Student Program presented by Texas A & M
• Quick Survey
• https://purdue.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6hS3GXNkZLuT6zs
• Next Student Workforce call - April 12, Topic Student onboarding

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Student Program Presentation

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Approachable Research Cyberinfrastructure

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Seeding Student Programs

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Feb 14, 2023

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High Performance Research Computing

Our Mission:

• Provide computing resources
• Offer consulting, technical guidance, and training to support researchers
• Collaborate on computational and data-enabled research

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What it looks like Today!

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• Ticketing and Helpdesk
• Teach short courses and Primers
• Benchmarking CI applications on the NSF ACES, NSF FASTER, and NSF Frontera machines
• Software design – Apps, Automation and Open On Demand
• Curriculum-developers and instructors in the Summer Computing Academy program camps for middle and high school students
• Assisting the the NSF SWEETER CyberTeam explore computing-driven research and educational partnerships
• Participate in our NSF BRICCs community to support research computing at smaller institutions and community colleges

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Tracing Back the Steps

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Started with HelpDesk functions at Computing - 2016

• 2 student technicians
• EE and Comp. Sci. background
• Performed ticketing functions on RT
• Support staff via email, slack and phone
• User Support on IBM LSF
• Accounts management
• Some software support

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Taking the Next Steps

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• Growing prowess - sudo-functions to support privileged functions
• Launched the Summer Computing Academy Program
• High school students
• Website, application development, running it
• Taught and developed materials
• Products - poster at a NSF Workshop and authors on paper
• Participated in SC as a student volunteer
• Sets the stage for a student cluster team

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The Wonder Years

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• 2017 – our helpdesk grew to 4 students
• Student learning outcomes and objectives identified
• Develop an interviewing program with staff
• Hired first non-STEM student into the program
• Graduate student supported in 2018
• Added additional functions
• Website support and build out
• Cloud strategy
• Software builds

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Opportunities via Instruction

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• Short course program
• Introductory courses taught and developed materials
• Primers
• Peer-mentored and peer-taught
• Designed by students for students
• Micro-credential programs – 21 CI courses
• Expanded summer program
• Counselors
• Curricular design

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Technology in CI!

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• Apps for Teachers
• Cloud integration
• AI models – first on a RPI
• Texas A&M Dashboard - Open on Demand
• Ticketing
• Allocations and Cluster statistics
• Applications
• Automation and Integration
• Slack and Google Drive

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Supporting a Community of CI Researchers

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• YouTube channel
• Student peer-mentoring
• Wiki and knowledge base
• Participants in BRICCs and SWEETER
• Featured on the local news!

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YouTube training videos

Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Support

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• Benchmarking CI applications on the NSF ACES, NSF FASTER, and NSF Frontera machines
• Developing GUIs and apps for research projects
• Porting applications to HPC clusters
• IoT and FPGA support
• Containerized Applications
• Code development, optimizing and analysis
• Opportunities to engage with other disciplines
• Dissemination
• PEARC22 paper with Industry experts
• SEC news story

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Acknowledgements

We gratefully acknowledge support from

• NSF: ACES ($6M + $1M/year for 5 years)
• NSF CC*: SWEETER ($1.43M)
• NSF CC*: BRICCs ($250K)
• NSA GenCyber Summer Camps ($80K, 2019, 2020, 2022 )
• Texas Workforce Commission (TWC, $63K, 2019, 2021)
• Texas Workforce Commission ($40.6K, 2022)
• NSF CyberTraining: CiSE-ProS ($532K)
• NSF CyberTraining: CMS³ ($499K)
• THECB ($301K) & UTRGV-THECB (Subaward $100K)

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Survey

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https://purdue.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6hS3GXNkZLuT6zs

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Future

• Next Student Workforce call - April 12, Topic Student onboarding
• What Training do you require your students do as onboarding or at all?

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Discussion