Graduate Research Fellows Cyberinfrastructure Resources Workshop

研究生研究员网络基础设施资源研讨会

• 批准号: 0750408
• 负责人: John Towns
• 金额: $ 2.29万
• 依托单位: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-09-15 至 2007-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0750408&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Graduate; Research; Fellows; Cyberinfrastructure; Resources

John TownsUIUC ? NCSAOCI 0750408As advanced computing, data and visualization resources are developed and integrated through the deployment of national and international cyberinfrastructures such as the TeraGrid, the potential to enhance research productivity among our STEM workforce is unprecedented. The workshop proposed here is an opportunity to capitalize on this cyberinfrastructure development through the, NSF?s Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) effort to modernize its supercomputer access program. The opportunities for exciting successes of Graduate Research Fellows already exist. By heightening awareness of the resources and services available and by making incremental improvements in those services and their accessibility, these nascent successes can be realized. Incremental improvements in services would include a larger allocation of computing time, access to imaging and database resources, more efficient training of CI use, and information on gateways and software availability. The enhancement of science and engineering training programs through these increased CI services offers an unparalleled opportunity to advance research productivity and creativity in the United States? future STEM workforce. Realization of these advances requires an increased awareness of CI resource availability and an understanding of CI protocols and methodology among these rising STEM researchers. One particularly important but largely untapped emerging STEM workforce audience that would benefit from the enhanced research productivity of CI is the more than 3000 active NSF Graduate Research Fellows. The GRFP is one of the oldest and most recognizable programs at the National Science Foundation [2 ]. Since 1952, over 43,000 graduate students in the STEM disciplines have been supported by the GRFP, which provides three years of stipend and cost of education support for the early stages of graduate study. Additional assistance for international travel is provided to all students as well as access to supercomputing time at one of the NSF-supported supercomputer facilities. Another highly capable group of early career STEM workers is the almost 2000 recipients of Graduate Research Fellows Honorable Mention that are identified each year. These highly capable graduate students constitute a cadre of some of our most promising STEM researchers in the formative stages of their careers and are well positioned to benefit from increased access to state of the art research tools. Despite a long-standing program of supercomputer access for Graduate Research Fellows, participation rates in the supercomputer access program remain low for lack of a modern perspective on high performance computing and awareness of the broad scope of computing resources that constitute CI. To address this shortcoming, we propose a cyber-enabled workshop to introduce Graduate Research Fellows and Honorable Mention recipients to the large array of NSF-supported CI resources and how they can use these resources to enhance and transform their research activities. The workshop will be conducted using the Access Grid (a component of CI) at multiple locations ? some within close proximity to over 300 current Graduate Research Fellows and Honorable Mention recipients. These workshops will provide: a) an overview of CI and its components b) examples of how students and others have used CI to enhance their research c) a description of CI resources available to them through the GRF Program d) information on how to apply for access to CI resources. The proposed workshop will help the GRFP?s efforts to build human capacity among Graduate Research Fellows by increasing awareness of the research opportunities afforded through CI. The workshop will draw on other experiences gained by NCSA in providing an integrated spectrum of computational science education and training in the use of tools and resources, for science and math education at all level

约翰·汤苏克（John Townsuiuc）？ NCSAOCI 0750408AS高级计算，数据和可视化资源是通过部署Teragrid等国家和国际网络基础结构来开发和集成的，它具有提高我们STEM劳动力研究生产力的潜力。这里提出的研讨会是通过NSF的研究生研究奖学金计划（GRFP）努力将其现代化其超级计算机访问计划现代化的努力来利用这种网络基础设施开发的机会。研究生研究研究员的令人兴奋的成功的机会已经存在。通过提高对可用资源和服务的认识，并通过对这些服务的增量改进及其可访问性进行增量，可以实现这些新生的成功。服务的增量改进将包括较大的计算时间分配，对成像和数据库资源的访问，更有效的CI使用培训以及有关网关和软件可用性的信息。通过这些增加的CI服务来增强科学和工程培训计划，这为提高了美国的研究生产力和创造力提供了无与伦比的机会吗？未来的STEM劳动力。这些进步的实现需要提高人们对CI资源可用性的认识，并了解这些不断崛起的STEM研究人员中CI方案和方法论。一个特别重要但很大程度上未开发的新兴STEM劳动力受众将受益于CI的研究生产力，这是3000多名活跃的NSF研究生研究研究员。 GRFP是国家科学基金会最古老，最知名的计划之一[2]。自1952年以来，GRFP支持了STEM学科的43,000多名研究生，该研究生研究为研究生研究的早期提供了三年的津贴和教育支持。为所有学生提供了国际旅行的额外帮助，并在NSF支持的超级计算机设施之一中获得超级计算时间。每年都会确定的近2000名研究生研究研究生研究生荣誉提名的早期职业生涯的工人群体。这些高度有能力的研究生在职业生涯的形成阶段中构成了我们一些最有前途的STEM研究人员的干部，并且在增加进入最先进的研究工具的访问范围中可以很好地受益。尽管长期以来针对研究生研究研究员的超级计算机访问程序的长期计划，但由于缺乏对高性能计算的现代视角以及对构成CI的广泛计算资源范围的现代视角，超级计算机访问计划中的参与率仍然很低。为了解决这一缺点，我们提出了一个支持网络的研讨会，以向研究生研究研究员和荣誉提名人介绍大量NSF支持的CI资源，以及他们如何使用这些资源来增强和改变他们的研究活动。研讨会将在多个位置使用访问网格（CI的一个组件）进行？有些与300多名当前研究生研究研究员和荣誉提名接收者相近。这些研讨会将提供：a）CI及其组成部分的概述b）学生和其他人如何使用CI来增强其研究的示例c）通过GRF计划d）有关如何申请访问CI资源的信息。拟议的研讨会将通过提高对CI提供的研究机会的认识来帮助GRFP在研究生研究研究员中建立人类能力的努力。该研讨会将利用NCSA获得的其他经验，以提供计算科学教育的综合范围，并在工具和资源的使用中，在各个级别提供科学和数学教育