Education, Outreach and Training (EOT)

Scott Lathrop

Area Director for EOT

January 2011

Community Engagement Oct-Dec 2010

TeraGrid EOT Highlights

• NSF identified the “Pathway to Success” as a high impact story

• 18 stories developed by EOT and ER team members

• Available on the web: https://www.teragrid.org/web/news/news#2010scihigh

• Led by Ange Mason, SDSC

Campus Champion Program

• 94 Champions from 79 institutions – and growing!• Good progress recruiting EPSCoR institutions,

especially among the western states• More interest generated from last week’s EPSCoR

meeting• Led by Kay Hunt, Purdue• Champions highlighted in TG booth during SC’10

Champions at TG’10

Current Campus Champion Institutions (unclassified) – 41

Current Campus Champion Institutions (EPSCoR states) 28

Current Campus Champion Institutions (Minority Serving Institutions)-- 7

Current Campus Champion Institutions (both EPSCoR and MSI) – 3

Total Number of Campus Champion Institutions Overall -- 79

Campus Champion Institutions January 1, 2011

SC’10 in New Orleans

• Campus Champion Trading Cards engagement activity• Each RP had a booth• TeraGrid staff involved on SC’10 committees • TeraGrid staff offered numerous presentations• PetaFlops—very popular give-away

Outreach Events

• Professional Society Outreach: SIGGRAPH 2010, NEES Workshop, Grace Hopper Celebration, SACNAS

• CI Days Events: Northeastern University, Marquette, Notre Dame, University of Kentucky, University of Arkansas, Colorado State University, North Carolina State University, University of Michigan, Purdue University, Penn State University, and University of Wisconsin

• New User Training and Security training offered synchronously by PSC quarterly

• New CI-Tutor course: Introduction to Performance Tools

• New Cornell Virtual Workshop courses: Introduction to LINUX, Introduction to C Programming

• SDSC Grand Challenges in Data-Intensive Discovery Conference October 26-28

Training

Education• SC10 Education Program (McGinnis, Chair),

Wiziecki (Student Volunteers) with involvement by multiple RP EOT staff– Planning is underway for a series of week-long summer

workshops with co-funding from BW, CSERD and other organizations, led by NCSI and OSCER

• Numerous RP education activities - ICLCS, GEMS, TeacherTECH, CMAST, CMIST, BEST, etc.

• Numerous SDSC Workshops for teachers and students

• Indiana showcased two 3-D visualizations for young minds at the EXPO in DC at at SC’10

• Effort underway to define HPC Competencies led by OSC

OCI Task Forces

• TeraGrid staff involved in the various task forces– Craig Stewart leading Campus Bridging– Diane Baxter leading sub-committee on

cyberlearning and workforce development

• Preliminary recommendations presented to NSF

• Planning proposal for TG’11/OSG underway• SC’10 Student Volunteers co-chair Kathy

Traxler• HPC University promotes internships,

fellowships, and career opportunities – send information to share!!

Student Engagement

Students at TeraGrid’10 supported by NSF supplement

USA Science and Engineering Expo• Supplemental funding from NSF to support participation• October 22-24, Washington DC (Indiana: Ping, Boyles, UChicago:

Leake, Lathrop, NCSA: Bell, NICS: Ferguson)• TeraGrid/Blue Waters joint participation• Engagement via 3-D videos, iPads, LittleFe, Coloring Books,

Posters• Over 2,000 people visited the booth

Outreach to Puerto Rico• Hands-on Workshops December 7-8, 2010• University of PR at Mayaguez and at Rios Piedras • More than 50 faculty and students attended• Participants had hands-on activities using TG

resources• New education allocation since presentations• TeraGrid Staff: UChicago: Lathrop, Leake; PSC:

Madrid, Sanielevici) (SDSC: Tatineni, Majumdar)

Faculty, Students and Staff from University of PR at Mayaguez

Faculty, Students and Staff

from UPR at Rios

Piedras

• Stefano Leonardi, professor at University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez, has worked at the Sapienza University of Rome, Max Planck Institute, Saarbreucken, Germany, and at Carnegie Mellon and Berkeley Universities in the US. Through these experiences, he has enjoyed access to the best resources on the planet.

“My wife and I moved to Puerto Rico about two years ago because we feel it is as close to Paradise as one can get—unless you rely on supercomputing to do your work. If it weren’t for TeraGrid, there is no way I could conduct my research,”

EU-US HPC Summer School

• First in a series of joint summer schools between DEISA and TeraGrid

• October 4-7, 2010 in Catania, Italy• 60 students, 35 EU and 25 US—multidisciplinary presence• 2011 Summer School planned for August 7-12 at Lake Tahoe• Program and presentations:

– https://www.teragrid.org/web/news/deisa_summer– http://www.deisa.eu/Summer-School

• Benjamin Cruz Perez“I used TeraGrid resources to complete my master’s thesis. Without TeraGrid’s tools and training, I would not have been able to obtain results in time for my defense.” “Thanks to these experiences, I have met with other researchers with similar interests who also use supercomputing for their research. I’m now comfortable using the techniques I’ve learned for the efficient use of high performance computing, and look forward to participating in multidisciplinary research in the future.”

Perez, left, with Fluid Dynamics BoF at the DEISA/TeraGrid Summer School in Italy, October 4-7, 2010.

Perez has been beneficiary of several NSF and TeraGrid programs, including a University of Texas course on Parallel Computing and a DEISA-TeraGrid co-sponsored summer school in Italy.

FaceBook Community

• Established about one month in advance by Elizabeth Leake

• Currently 54 members, US and EU participation• Great way to establish familiarity before the event• Enables continued discussion

20% female attendeesShannen Adcock (left)

University of Arkansas/Fayetteville (graduate student Electrical

Engineering) and Anastasia Yanchilina, (right) Russian student studying at Columbia

University (postdoc in Atmospheric studies.-

Sreeja Nag (left) MIT, past International Fellow at ESTEC-ACT at European Space Agency Innovations, Summer intern at NASA Jet Propulsion Lab

Anastasia RomonovaRussian postdoc, Max Planck, Germany--Math

Summer School Impact

• Sean Ahern (NICS/ORNL), after meeting Jeremy Logan (University of Maine) in Sicily, encouraged ORNL to hire him as a postdoc to assist with research in parallel I/O. Sean recognized that Jeremy's work could be applicable to ORNL's HPC data processing research.

• Jeremy started at ORNL a few weeks ago!!

2nd EU-US HPC Summer School

• Planned for August 7-12, 2011• Lake Tahoe, Nevada• Planning for 60 students, 25 EU and 35 US—

multidisciplinary presence• Supplemental proposal in development• Joint effort with DEISA/PRACE

“Using current technology, we could have an exaflop sytem, it would just take a small nuclear reactor to power it.”

~Giovanni Erbacci

Giuseppa MUSCIANISIPhD Student in Mathematics and InformaticsDepartment of Mathematics University of Messina, Italy

Joint Blue Waters-TeraGrid Symposium

• Symposium on Data-Intensive Analysis, Analytics, and Informatics

• April 14-15, 2011• Pittsburgh, PA• Web site to be live next week• Planning team: Sergiu Sanielevici, Nick Nystrom,

Dan Stanzione, Dan Katz, Bob Wilhelmson, Scott Lathrop, Amit Majumdar

Questions?