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Education, Outreach and Training (EOT) and External Relations (ER)

Education, Outreach and Training (EOT) and External Relations (ER). Scott Lathrop Area Director for EOT Extension Year Plans. Overall Efforts.

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Education, Outreach and Training (EOT) and External Relations (ER)

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  1. Education, Outreach and Training (EOT)andExternal Relations (ER) Scott Lathrop Area Director for EOT Extension Year Plans

  2. Overall Efforts • Continue to develop and deliver training, education and outreach resources and services among the community during the first 8 months (August, 2010 to March, 2011) • Continue to collect community requirements and needs • Continue to develop strong collaborations with external organizations • Focus on transition during the last four months (April-July, 2011) documenting programs, activities, lessons learned and recommendations for the XD team

  3. Training • Conduct annual survey of community needs to set priorities for HPC development and delivery • RPs continue to develop new content, and offer training via live, synchronous and asynchronous delivery mechanisms • More emphasis on async/sync delivery of content • Topics to address new users, and new resources and services • Emphasis on petascale computing • Coordinate training with Track 2D and XD awards (e.g. Vis) • Support training of Campus Champions • Schedule of events posted on www.teragrid.org, TeraGrid User Portal, and HPC University • Coordination with AUS and other AD areas as appropriate • 3.45 GIG and RP supported FTE on-going effort

  4. On-line Training Content (add-on) • An enhanced level of effort will be focused on developing additional on-line self-paced tutorials to better serve the large distributed audience served by TeraGrid • Enhanced level of effort to generate additional modules • Topics to be considered include performance engineering tools, hybrid MPI, parallel I/O, HDF5, Science Gateways, and scaling to petascale • This new content will be added to the CI-Tutor infrastructure • The effort will be led by Sandie Kappes at NCSA and will involve multiple RPs and AUS team • 1.04 FTE of add-on effort

  5. Training Quality Assurance (add-on) • This is in direct response to user surveys indicating the need for better quality training and to assist users in finding quality training materials • An increased emphasis will be placed on ensuring that all HPC training is reviewed for improvement in quality • HPC University provides infrastructure for formal and informal reviews of materials and postings of reviews • This effort will be led by Laura McGinnis at PSC and will involve staff at multiple RP sites • This work will be coordinated with AUS and User Services • .48 FTE of add-on effort

  6. TGCommunity Collaboration Environment (add-on) • Direct response to user survey that indicated that 65% of users learning about TeraGrid “informally through colleagues”; and last review that recommended use of social networking tools • Use social networking tool(s) to provide a collaboration environment in support of users of on-line training materials • Support interaction among users with other users and AUS staff • Define criteria and develop prototype during PY5 with select group of users (e.g. Campus Champions and their users) • Extension year used to scale to larger audiences • Led by Edee Wiziecki at NCSA with involvement by RPs • 1.25 FTE add-on effort

  7. Education • Focus on professional develop and curriculum development across K-12, undergraduate and graduate audiences, and dissemination of best practices and modules • Numerous RP education workshops - ICLCS, TeacherTECH, CMAST, CMIST, SMART Team, etc. • SC11 Education Program - focus on undergraduate education • Support 7-10 week-long summer workshops • Provide foundation for SC11 conference program in November • Led by Henry Neeman, U Oklahoma • Scientific computing course development and offerings led by TACC • 1.98 GIG and RP supported FTE on-going effort

  8. Student Engagement • Focus on workforce development among students • TG’11 Conference • Hope to secure continued funding for student participation at annual conference as follow-on to TG09/TG10 student program • Student workshops and internships offered by RPs • National Science Olympiad - middle and high students • Developing new computational science competition for middle and high school students during PY5 • pilot by SC09 for first use at the spring Olympiad meeting • National offering during Extension year • Led by Edee Wiziecki, NCSA • On-going collaboration with OSG to secure funding

  9. Computational science problem of the week (add-on) • Encouraged by review panel • National student engagement • Launched in PY4, continued in PY5 • Leverages TG’xx and SC’xx competitions • Target is high school, undergrad and grad students • Students will help develop problem sets • Exploring use of social networks to engage more students • Led by Laura McGinnis, PSC with support from multiple RPs - tap users for ideas • .68 FTE add-on effort

  10. Outreach • Professional society outreach • Continue to plan for at least 10 conferences/year • Broadening the scope of conferences per review team recommendations • Led by Robert Ping, Indiana University • Broadening Participation • Continue to seek recommendations of new users and new communities needing consulting assistance • Continue to encourage sharing of presentation materials by all TeraGrid staff • EOT Highlights and EOT Newsletter • Annual document to highlight community impact • EOT newsletter - monthly news for the community • Led by Ange Mason, SDSC with involvement by all

  11. Campus Champions (add-on) • Strong support from review team and community • 63 Champions today and growing • Outreach at EDUCAUSE, Internet 2 and SC09 • Monthly calls; Regular training sessions for Champions • Campus Champions portal launched at TG09 • Face-to-face at TG’xx meetings • Advisory Group; Leadership Group of Champions • Focus group at TG09 - strong support from Champions - room for improvement of services • Need to emphasize outreach to “gaps” across the country • Expand coordination by .5 FTE at Purdue • Expand technical support by .5 FTE with SDSC, PSC, etc. • Led by Kay Hunt, Purdue • Was .95 FTE effort; 1.0 FTE add-on effort

  12. TeraGrid Campus Champions September 7, 2009 Current Campus Champions Current Campus Champions in an EPSCoR state Current Campus Champions at a Minority Serving Institution Current Campus Champions both EPSCoR and MSI

  13. External Relations • Science highlights • Final production planned for 2011 • Stories from all RPs • Led by Elizabeth Leake, with assistance from SDSC • RP ER Operations • Production of ER materials and information • .75 FTE on-going effort • Coordination by Elizabeth • 1.0 FTE on-going effort

  14. External Relations (add-on) • Science writing • RPs will continue to produce science stories • Additional staff time to produce more science highlights stories • Coordinate with NSF to disseminate news • Was .4 GIG FTE effort, increase to .67 FTE effort • ER communications • Additional staff time to produce more stories, highlights, news releases, and other news • Facilitate storage of and access to images and stories • Maintain more effective media and outreach distribution lists • Provide targeted information to professional societies • .87 FTE add-on effort

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