Education, Outreach and Training and External Relations

1. Education, Outreach and TrainingandExternal Relations Scott Lathrop Area Director for EOT and ER University of Chicago/Argonne National Laboratory April, 2008

2. EOT/ER Successes • Overall Impact - 7 conferences, 127 workshops, 18 presentations, 22 on-line tutorials, 69 seminars, and 9 course offerings reaching over 7,500 people • Education - K-12 and undergraduate curriculum impact • SC07 Education Program - over 400 educators; 18 events • K-12 Curriculum - BEST, CMIST, CAST, ICLCS, TeacherTECH, etc. • Post-secondary Courses - undergrad and grad at multiple campuses • Leveraging multiple external sources of funding (over $7M over 5 years) • Outreach - raise awareness, engage diverse communities, campus presence • TG’07: 350 participants; 13 tutorials, 40 papers • Building petascale applications workshop • Campus Champions - U Kentucky signed, 12 in process, 10 recommended • Professional Society Meetings - ACS, AAAS, AGU, NSTA, etc. • SC07 Education Program - of 117 participants, 44 were from MSIs, 40 were from EPSCoR institutions (incl. Puerto Rico, Santo Domingo and Costa Rica) • Training - offering a range from introductory HPC to petascale techniques • Launched HPC University RAT; implementation underway • Petascale training on Ranger begun in January • Live events and on-line tutorials offered

3. EOT/ER Successes (cont.) • Student Engagement - internships and competitions • Student Competitions - TG07, SC07, WxChallenge • Student Internships, REUs, and Workshops • Graduate Research Fellows Seminars • External Relations - science highlights disseminated • 2007 Science Highlights • Media outlets - iSGTW, HPCwire, etc. • Evaluation of programs • Surveys and interviews • formative and summative • Used to improve programs and assess impact • Collaborations with more than 20 external organizations on a range of EOT efforts • Education Programs • CI Days and Campus Champions outreach with campuses • HPC University • Media outlets (e.g. iSGTW, HPCwire)

4. HPC University: Training Topics Offered • HPC Computing • Introduction to Parallel Computing • Toward Multicore Petascale Applications • Scaling Workshop - Scaling to Petaflops • Effective Use of Multi-core Technology • TeraGrid - Wide BlueGene Applications • Introduction to Using SDSC Systems • Introduction to the Cray XT3 at PSC • Introduction to & Optimization for SDSC Sytems • Parallel Computing on Ranger & Lonestar • Domain-specific Sessions • Petascale Computing in the Biosciences • Workshop on Infectious Disease Informatics at NCSA • Visualization • Introduction to Scientific Visualization • Intermediate Visualization at TACC • Remote/Collaborative TeraScale Visualization on the TeraGrid • Other Topics • NCSA to host workshop on data center design • Rocks Linux Cluster Workshop • LCI International Conference on HPC Clustered Computing

5. HPC University: On-Line Access • Goal is to reach significantly larger audiences • Through just-in-time training • To reach people that can’t attend live sessions • Synchronous sessions • Launching quarterly new user training sessions • Planning science/technology seminar series • Planning on-line education seminar series • CI-Tutor launched to expand access to tutorials • 4,570 accesses to the CI-Tutor tutorials in 2007 • Over 30 on-line asynchronous tutorials now available • Examples of new content in development • Introductory Multi-core Performance Issues • Getting Started Using TG Resources • Porting code to the TeraGrid • Audience: MSIs, new TeraGrid users • Petascale applications development

6. Outreach Locations in 2007 2/4 Yr. College Pathways Workshop Research 1 Univ. Education/Training Minority Serving Institution Conference Tutorial (e.g. SC, AAAS, AAPT)

7. Plans (year-round activities) • Education - continue K-12 and undergrad curriculum efforts • SC08 Education Program - summer workshops announced, Nov. planning • K-12 Curriculum - BEST, CMIST, CAST, ICLCS, TeacherTECH, etc. • Post-secondary Courses - undergrad and grad at multiple campuses • Outreach - expand outreach, especially with under-served communities • TG’08: June 9-13, 2008 in Las Vegas • Peta-apps, SDCI and SCiDAC workshops • Expand Campus Champions membership • Professional Society Meeting Outreach • TeraGrid Pathways (EOT Supplement) • Training - expand HPC, petascale and on-line offerings • Expansion of HPC University offerings • Additional petascale training sessions • Learn from petaapps and SDCI projects

8. Plans (cont.) • Student Engagement - expand opportunities • Student Competitions - TG08, SC08, WxChallenge • Student Internships, REUs and Workshops • CIEG program to engage more students and expand into additional disciplines • Graduate Research Fellows seminars and allocations • External Relations - science and EOT highlights • 2008 Science Highlights in time for SC08 • EOT Highlights launched in time for SC08 • EOT newsletter to be launched • Evaluation - cross-RP coordination • Common instruments for cross-RP evaluations • Create database for longitudinal impact studies • Expanded community surveys and interviews and analysis to assess overall impact and how to improve programs

9. Outreach Locations in 2008 Puerto Rico Workshop Conference Costa Rica

10. Challenges • Broadening Participation in TeraGrid to engage and sustain more under-served researchers, educators and students • Adapting Science Gateways for education communities • Manage growth of programs like Campus Champions, CI Days, SC Education Program, etc. • Scaling-up computational science and HPC resources within K-20 education • Capturing lessons learned in achieving petascale performance for training and broad dissemination • Continuing to address terascale training needs while advancing petascale training

11. Needs • Significantly expand resources to address community needs • Broadening participation among under-served communities • Accelerating HPC University • Raising additional external funding to leverage NSF’s investments • Develop more cross-domain, cross-agency, cross-institution collaborations • Augment external collaborations to leverage broader impact • Identify peta-apps and SDCI broader impact efforts • Identify track 3 HPC centers to leverage EOT efforts • Identify CI-TEAM, BPC, and other projects for leverage • Recommendations of research and education projects to capture lessons learned in case studies for dissemination and scaling-up

12. EOT and ER Working Group Members • EOT Working Group • Argonne/U Chicago - Scott Lathrop, Carolyn Peters • Indiana - Daphne Siefert-Herron • NCAR - Marijke Unger • NICS - Jim Ferguson, Julia White • NCSA - Edee Norman Wiziecki, Sandie Kappes • ORNL - John Cobb, Jim Rome • PSC - Laura McGinnis, Cheryl Begandy, Pallavi Ishwad • Purdue - Kay Hunt • SDSC - Diane Baxter, Jeff Sale, Ange Mason • TACC - Brad Armosky • ER Working Group • Argonne/U Chicago - Scott Lathrop, Carolyn Peters, Joe Insley • Indiana - Daphne Siefert-Herron • NCAR - Marijke Unger • NICS - Jim Ferguson, Julia White • NCSA - Bill Bell, Trish Barker • ORNL - John Cobb • PSC - Michael Schneider, Shandra Williams • Purdue - Kay Hunt • SDSC - Warren Froelich • TACC - Faith Singer-Villalobos

13. Broader ImpactsAdvance discovery | Reinforce teaching and learning • Integrate HPC+STEM research activities into grades 6-12 and higher education teaching & learning. • 20+ EOT partnerships to: • Utilize user-friendly TeraGrid & HPC tools: Science Gateways • Show and guide (hands-on) teachers & faculty to integrate via education community conferences (NSTA, EDUCAUSE, ISTE, etc.). • Justify integrating TeraGrid & HPC enhanced research: national science, mathematics, and technology standards • Involve students in research activities. • Foster effective student apprenticeship to engage students’ STEM interests and apply HPC: internships, REUs, competitions, awards & recognition, committees, staff positions; Grace Hopper, Tapia, SACNAS • K-12 teacher, administrators, & leaders involvement • Strategically leverage methods in the education community: workshops, conferences, professional awards & recognition, and committees. • Research-based educational materials • Show and guide (hands-on) teachers & faculty through CSERD/NSDL’s powerful utilities. • Give incentive: highlight related national science, mathematics, and technology standards.

14. Broader ImpactsAdvance discovery | Reinforce teaching and learning • Involve students in research activities. • Foster effective student apprenticeship to engage students’ STEM interests and apply HPC: internships, REUs, competitions, awards & recognition, committees, staff positions; Grace Hopper, Tapia, SACNAS • K-12 teacher, administrators, & leaders involvement • Strategically leverage methods in the education community: workshops, conferences, professional awards & recognition, and committees. NSTA 2008 Conference

15. Broader ImpactsAdvance discovery | Reinforce teaching and learning • Research-based educational materials • Show and guide (hands-on) teachers & faculty through CSERD/NSDL’s powerful utilities. • Give incentive: highlight related national science, mathematics, and technology standards. • Establish mentoring programs • EOT Supplement • Involve grad and post-docs in undergrad teaching • SC workshops involve student instructors

16. Broader ImpactsBroaden participation of under-served groups • Establish collaborations with under-represented groups: • MSI-CIEC, hosting workshops, driving workshop content • Include under-represented groups in research and education activities: • TG08, SC, workshops, proposals • Establish students/faculty collaborations from non-PhD and MSIs: • CI Days, Campus Champions, workshops, allocations, EOT Supplement • Visit campuses among under-served groups: • CI Days, SC workshops, outreach, Campus Champions • Collaborate with community colleges, colleges for women, undergrad institutions, and EPSCoR: • SC workshops, CI Days, Campus Champions • Mentor early career scientists from under-represented groups: • EOT supplement • Develop new approaches to engage under-served individuals: • EOT supplement, fellowships, mentoring • Participate in events where diversity is a priority: • Tapia, SACNAS, Grace Hopper

17. Broader ImpactsEnhance infrastructure for research and education • Establish collaborations: • Over 20 national partnerships and 10 international partnerships • Develop and disseminate next generation research and education platforms: • Science Gateways • CSERD/NSDL Computational Science curriculum of lesson plans, activities, and resources. • Leverage R&E infrastructure and facilities: • All RPs,CI Days, Campus Champions, CI-Tutor • Upgrade infrastructure: • All RPs, MSI-CIEC • Leverage multi-user facilities: • All RPs

18. Broader ImpactsBroad dissemination of results • Partner with informal learning centers (museums, science centers, etc.) • Planetariums (Adler, Hayden), Denver Science Center, Exploratorium • Involve public and industry • Seminars, media, industrial partnerships • Presentations to broader community • Face-to-face: Seminars, RPs host visitors/tours • Media: press releases, science stories • World Wide Web: Webcasts, visualization movies • Make data available • Over 100 data collections • Publish in diverse media for broad audiences • Web site, Scientist perspective video, iSGTW, HPCwire, GridToday, SC, etc. • Present information useful to policy makers • TeraGrid futures position papers,numerous reports and publications • Participate in conferences, professional society conferences, etc. • TG’xx, SC’xx, ACS, AGU, APS, AAU, MPS, AAAS, NSTA, SITE, etc. • Integrate research with education to communicate in broader context • Outreach to schools, colleges, universities

19. Broader ImpactsBenefits to society • Demonstrate relationships betweenTeraGrid & HPC enhanced discovery, society, and the individual • Science Highlights, press releases, science stories, visualization movies • Collaborate nationally to integrate research into broader programs of national interest • over 20 national collaborations • Clarify R&E results for non-scientists • Science Highlights, press releases, science stories, visualization movies • Provide information for policy formulation • TeraGrid Futures position papers, reports, publications