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Education, Outreach and Training and External Relations

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

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Education, Outreach and Training and External Relations

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  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 Systems • 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 • RP Collaboration to offer New User Orientation via Access Grid

  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 Peta-Apps 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, Shawn Brown • 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. Incorporate research into teaching and learning 20+ EOT partnerships to address this Encourage student participation Grace Hopper Tapia SACNAS Internships REUs Committees Establish mentoring programs EOT Supplement Involve grad and post-docs in undergrad teaching SC workshops involve student instructors Integrate research activities into teaching of STEM at all levels Science Gateways Educator workshops across many disciplines Student Engagement Internships Competitions REUs, Committees Awards Staff positions K-12 teacher involvement Workshops Awards Committees EOT working group Research-based educational materials CSERD/NSDL Broader ImpactsAdvancing discovery while promoting teaching, and learning

  14. Establish collaborations with under-represented groups MSI-CIEC Hosting workshops Driving workshop content Include under-represented groups in research and education activities TG08, SC08 Workshops Proposals Establish collaborations students/faculty from non-PhD and MSIs CI Days Campus Champions Workshops Allocations EOT Supplement Campus visits among under-served groups CI Days SC workshops Outreach Campus Champions Collaborations with community colleges, colleges for women, undergrad institutions, 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 Broader ImpactsBroaden participation of under-served groups

  15. 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 • Curriculum and lesson plans in CSERD/NSDL • R&E infrastructure and facilities • All RPs • CI Days • Campus Champions • CI-Tutor • Upgrade Training infrastructure • All RPs • MSI-CIEC • Multi-user facilities • All RPs

  16. Partner with museums, science centers, etc Adler Planetarium Hayden Planetarium Denver Science Center Involve public and industry industrial partnerships Seminars media Presentations to broader community Seminars press releases science stories host visitors at RPs Make data available over 100 data collections Integrate research with education to communicate in broader context Outreach to schools, colleges, universities Publish in diverse media for broad audiences Web site Scientist perspective video iSGTW HPCwire GridToday SC, etc. Participate in conferences, etc. TG’xx, SC’xx ACS, AGU, APS, AAU, MPS AAAS NSTA SITE, etc. Present information useful to policy makers TeraGrid futures position papers Numerous reports & publications Broader ImpactsBroad dissemination of results

  17. Broader ImpactsBenefits to society • Demonstrate linkage of discovery to society • Science Highlights • Press releases • Science stories • Collaborations to integrate research into broader programs of national interest • Over 20 national collaborations • Make R&E results clear to non-scientists • Science Highlights • Press releases • Science stories • Provide info for policy formulation • TeraGrid Futures position papers, reports, publications

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