NSF Workshop High Performance Computing Center Sustainability

高性能计算中心可持续性科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)学科的绝大多数研究人员继续依赖部门、校园或地区/州的研究计算资源。研究人员使用“本地”计算资源(1)满足他们的科学和工程计算要求，和/或(2)为最终迁移到国家设施准备他们的代码，和/或(3)教育知识经济所需的迫切需要的学生。一些大学认为研究计算是一项战略投资，并试图为重要的研究计算资源提供持续支持，包括相当大的并行集群。这些通常被安置在正式认可的中心。更常见的是，大学将研究计算视为一种战术需要，只为研究计算提供间歇性资金。所有这些研究计算中心都面临着如何最好地组织、管理、资助和利用其硬件和员工的挑战。本次研讨会的目的是提供一个论坛，让中心主任、校园首席信息官和研究官就研究计算中心的可持续性这一主题进行公开讨论。讨论将产生对组织模式、筹资模式、管理模式和培训模式的共同理解，以实现可持续研究计算中心。智力价值：研究计算中心在培养下一代科学家和工程师方面发挥着关键作用？正是需要广泛利用高性能研究计算资源的干部，才是具有全球竞争力的知识分子。这次研讨会将通过启动对持续投资和广泛使用高级研究计算培训的日益关键的需求的持续对话，直接影响我们高等教育机构的智力能力。更广泛的影响：该研讨会将为位于该国经济困难地区的高等教育机构提供成功的研究计算中心的模型，如果创建并维持这些中心，将对当地经济产生重大影响。此外，通过在不同的中心之间开发和共享机构孤立的知识，该研讨会将促进类似中心的建立和实施，并将加强和丰富更广泛的学习社区。

High Performance Computing Center Sustainability The vast majority of researchers in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) disciplines continue to rely on departmental, campus, or regional/state research computing resources. Researchers use "local" computing resources (1) to fulfill their science and engineering computational requirements, and/or (2) to prepare their codes for eventual migration to national facilities, and/or (3) to educate critically needed students that are required by the knowledge economy. Some universities consider research computing a strategic investment and attempt to provide sustained support for significant research computing resources, including sizeable parallel clusters. These are typically housed in formally recognized centers. More commonly universities view research computing as a tactical need, and only provide intermittent funding for research computing. All of these research computing centers are challenged to understand how best to organize, manage, fund, and utilize their hardware and staff. The objective of this workshop is to provide a forum for an open discussion among center directors, campus Chief Information Officers and Research Officers on the topic of the sustainability of research computing centers. The discussion will yield a shared understanding of organizational models, funding models, management models and training models that result in sustainable research computing centers. Intellectual Merit: Research computing centers play a critical role in educating the next generation of scientists and engineers ? the very cadre that will need to extensively utilize high performance research computing resources to be globally competitive intellectuals. This workshop will directly impact the intellectual capabilities of our higher education institutions by initiating a sustained dialog into the increasingly critical requirement for sustained investments and pervasive use of advanced research computing training. Broader Impacts: This workshop will prepare higher education institutions located in economically disadvantaged areas of the country with models for successful research computing centers that, if created and sustained, can markedly impact local economies. Additionally, by developing and sharing institutionally-siloed knowledge across diverse centers, this workshop will facilitate the establishment and implementation of similar centers and will strengthen and enrich broader learning communities.