Education, Outreach and Training (EOT)

1. Education, Outreach and Training (EOT) Scott Lathrop Area Director for EOT University of Chicago/Argonne National Laboratory April 2009

2. Community Participation in 2008 Researchers and educators from all states except Delaware, Rhode Island, and Vermont have participated in TeraGrid’s EOT efforts during 2008 as participants, instructors, presenters, and campus representatives. There are users with allocations in Delaware, Rhode Island and Vermont, thus TeraGrid worked with people in all 50 states.

3. Campus Champions program engaged 30 campuses, including 5 Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs), and 10 institutions from EPSCoR states.

4. First Annual EOT Highlights 2008 “The nation needs many more people well prepared to maintain and sustain this technically advanced infrastructure, and we are positioning ourselves to prepare that workforce,” Dr. Doug Rowlett, Houston Community College Southwest The PolarGrid project has brought Elizabeth City State University, an MSI in North Carolina, solidly into cyberinfrastructure… “Excited teachers create excited students”, Principal Kathy Kasees, Fort Caroline Middle School, Jacksonville, FL 18 stories of EOT’s impact among the community

5. Education Highlights Professional Development and Curriculum Development Efforts • K-12 Programs • CAST - to introduce computational thinking into the curriculum • CMIST - Computational Models In Science Teaching for secondary schools • TeacherTECH, StudentTECH - over 500 participants, 60% women • SMART - computational biology in collaboration with Milwaukee • Undergraduate and Graduate Programs • SC08 Education Program - leveraged > $500K; 31% female, 45% minorities • Commitment to extend SC Education Program through SC11 • Southwest Community College (CA) started a Computing Club as follow-up to their SC08 experiences • GEON collaboration with Navajo Technical College to adapt the Science Gateway for educational uses driven by their faculty • College courses offered by LSU, NICS, Purdue, and TACC • Curricular materials posted to CSERD Digital Library • K-12 professional development and curriculum development workshops • Post-secondary curriculum development activities at multiple campuses

6. Outreach Highlights • Campus Champions • The Science Advisory Board encouraged (and continues to encourage) TeraGrid to be aggressive in growing the number of campus partnerships • Began with U Kentucky (EPSCoR institution) and grew to 30 institutions in less than a year (today there are xx institutions) and we’re in discussion with another 30 campuses • “The help of the TeraGrid champions has been invaluable both in writing and submitting the application of allocation and later, in resolving specific issues with software installation, correspondence with the TeraGrid IT support and a close follow up on my progress”, Dr. Nurit Haspel, Rice University • TeraGrid Pathways • Awareness sessions conducted and made over 130 contacts with potential new users • New user support now being provided to 12 new users • 7 people have been assigned mentors • 4 fellowship awards have been made to support getting codes running on TG • Science Gateways work underway with ECSU and PolarGrid, and Navajo Technical College and GEON • Professional Society Outreach • TeraGrid’08 Conference: 350 participants; full day tutorials, papers, student competitions • SC08 Conference - talks, demos, BOFs, and booths to reach out to community • Over 12 professional society meetings; including hosting e-Science Conference in Dec. • Building petascale applications workshop in collaboration with Blue Waters

7. Training Highlights • Multi-modal delivery for different learning needs, styles and timelines • Live sessions offered at RP sites, conferences, and on campuses • Synchronous content delivery by LONI, NCSA, PSC, SDSC, and TACC • Quarterly synchronous new user training session after each allocations meeting • On-line tutorials are reaching larger audiences with growing list of topics including Ranger Virtual Workshop offered by Cornell • HPC University in production • HPC University portal released at SC08 • Catalog of training and education resources and materials from NSF, DOE, and other sites - submissions are encouraged by all • Calendar of HPC events - submissions are encouraged by all • Opportunities for educators and students to get involved in HPC through internships, fellowships, competitions, awards, etc. • In discussions with PRACE about collaboration to expand the resources • In discussions with HASS community for domain specific information and searches • All sessions are announced via web site, TG User Portal, HPC University, through conferences and workshops, news postings, and through e-mail

8. New Training Topics in 2008 • Introduction to Parallel Programming on Ranger • Parallel Optimization and Visualization on Ranger • Data Analysis and Visualization on Ranger • Large Scale Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Biomolecules using Desmond • Ranger Virtual Workshop modules created include: Parallel Programming Concepts and High-Performance Computing, Ranger Environment, MPI Point-to-Point Communications, MPI One-Sided Communications, OpenMP, Profiling and Debugging, Optimization and Scalability, ParaView • Revamped "Introduction to Parallel Programming” to be "Introduction to Parallel Programming on Ranger and Lonestar” • Ranger Virtual Workshop • Introductory and intermediate MPI on-line tutorials • New TeraGrid User Training synchronous sessions each quarter

9. Student Engagement • Competitions • TG08 student competitions - research posters, on-site science programming competition • SC08 on-site science programming competition, Cluster Challenge • Science Bowls at PSC • Awards • Panoff computational science student award announced at SC08 • Internships, Fellowships, Research Experiences • Student Internships at LONI, NCAR • PolarGrid engaged Elizabeth City State University (MSI) studenst in global warming research • CIEG - CI Experiences for Graduate Students at SDSC • Graduate Research Fellows Seminar across AG • Awareness sessions for students • WiiMD, content for Weekly Reader • At RPs, schools and local science centers • Tours of RP facilities

10. Broadening the TeraGrid User Base • Creation of DACs/Start-up and Education accounts • 2007: 736 requests, 684 approved • 2008: 762 requests, 703 approved, 17 education accounts approved • New users • 2007 - 1,714 new users • 2008 - 1,862 new users • TeraGrid allocations among 12 MSIs and 34 EPSCoR institutions • Campus Champion site allocations • New users at 3 new campuses • Number of accounts increased at 9 campuses

11. Evaluation Framework UsesTrilogy Model* Evaluation questions address increases in knowledge, expertise, and self-efficacy, and how these change over time (longitudinal). Each survey item addresses at least one component of this model. Evaluation outcomes provide data on how effective EOT activities, as a whole, have been in accomplishing these goals. *Trilogy model based on work of Jolly, Campbell, & Perlman, 2004

12. Evaluation Activities Online surveys –the evaluation framework surveys were developed by evaluator and reviewed by RPs. Pre-, Post- and 6-month follow-up surveys have been developed for use by RPs within EOT events Surveys are being piloted through April 2009 and will be live for summer events. Data will be analyzed on a monthly basis for the first 6 months to detect any unanticipated trends in responses. Quarterly reports will be made to Teragrid RP’s during the first 6 months to reflect on process and impact. Process will be refinded as needed, then reports will be made on a bi-annual basis.

13. EOT Plans for PY5 • Education - continue K-12 and undergrad professional development and curriculum development efforts • SC09 Education Program - 10 summer workshops and Nov event • Plan to conduct over 100 workshops, institutes and tutorials • Materials reviewed and submitted to CSERD (digital library) • Outreach - expand outreach, especially with under-served communities • Host TG’09: June 22-25, 2009 in Arlington,VA • Conduct at least two petascale workshops with Blue Waters • Expand Campus Champions to > 60 campuses, with a focus on adding under-represented campuses across the country (e.g. EPSCoR sites) • Conduct outreach to at least 20 Professional Society Meetings • Continue TeraGrid Pathways program • Training - expand HPC, petascale and on-line offerings • Expansion of HPC University offerings • Conduct at least 50 training sessions, of which 10 will include new content • At least 30 sessions offered synchronously; at least 8 new async topics

14. PY5 Plans (cont.) • Student Engagement - expand opportunities • Student Competitions - TG09, SC09 • Computational science problem of the week launched • Student Internships, REUs and Workshops • Graduate Research Fellows seminars and allocations • Support at least 300 K-12 students and 500 college students • EOT highlights • EOT Highlights produced in time for SC09 • EOT monthly newsletter launched and being distributed • Evaluation • Pilot instruments through April; move into production in May • Create database for longitudinal impact studies • Conduct first 6-month analysis by December • Continue to review and improve metrics of long-term impact

15. For More Information scott@ncsa.uiuc.edu www.teragrid.org www.hpcuniv.org sc09-education.org http://cserd.nsdl.org

16. External Relations (ER) Elizabeth Leake External Relations Coordinator University of Chicago/Argonne National Laboratory April 2009

17. External Relations Team • Elizabeth Leake joined the GIG in October as the first full-time External Relations Coordinator • All Resource Providers are represented: • Indiana - Daphne Marie Siefert-Herron • LONI - Kristen Sunde • NCAR - Marijke Unger • NCSA - Trish Barker and Bill Bell • NICS - Jim Ferguson • ORNL - John Cobb • PSC - Mike Schneider, Shandra Williams • Purdue - Kay Hunt • SDSC - Warren Froelich, Jan Zverina • TACC - Faith Singer-Villalobos • U Chicago/Argonne - Joseph Insley, Carolyn Peters

18. External Relations Accomplishments • Production of TeraGrid Science Highlights 2008 for SC08 with 14 science impact stories • A total of 40 science highlights submitted in the annual report • 62 press releases and feature stories • Dissemination through international Science Grid This Week (iSGTW), HPCWire, professional societies, and other media outlets • Production of communications collateral to promote TeraGrid • Coordination of TeraGrid presence at SC08 • Participation in many aspects of TeraGrid ‘08 conference • Planning for TeraGrid ‘09, including Deputy Chair role • Participation in professional society meetings (e.g. AAAS and AGU) • Major role in helping support e-Science Conference • Assisted NSF/OCI with information for Presidential Transition Team • Building stronger relations with NSF OLPA and OCI PR staff

19. External Relations PY5 Plans • Based on the annual TeraGrid User Survey feedback, the ER team will work on revising the public web site to improve the content, navigation and easy access to information of interest to users and potential users • The team will continue to work with NSF to convey the impact of TeraGrid on research, education and society • The team will continue to reach out to professional societies to share the benefits of TeraGrid for advancing scientific discovery, especially among under-represented communities • The team will continue to work with all TeraGrid working groups to provide communications collateral to assist all teams with conveying the value and benefits of TeraGrid

20. For More Information eleake@uchicago.edu www.teragrid.org www.isgtw.org