RAPID: Blue Waters Graduate Fellowship Expansion

蓝水系统是美国国家科学基金会最大、最强大的系统，为计算科学和工程团队提供了一个有效的、可扩展的、持续的千万亿级计算平台，达到了无与伦比的水平。NCSA已经建立了一个全面的支持和推广计划，通过与使用Blue Waters的团队以及更大的计算科学和工程社区密切合作，使他们能够充分利用Blue Waters的非凡能力，以及类似系统（如Kraken， Stampede, Keeneland， Titan和未来的千万亿次计算系统）提供的能力。该项目名为NCSA/Illinois Enhanced intelligent Services for peascale Performance (NEIS-P2)，包括一个重要的社区外展组件，旨在使一般的NSF计算科学和工程社区能够有效地利用peascale系统。社区参与部分包括通过一系列协调的课程、研讨会、奖学金和实习，帮助培养下一代千兆级计算专家的活动。新启动的NEIS-P2社区参与计划的蓝水研究生项目收到的优秀申请数量超过了该活动的可用预算。这项RAPID提案是在2014-2015年学术期间支持另外四名研究员的请求。最终结果将是在蓝水研究生奖学金计划的第一年支持10名研究员。

The Blue Waters system, the largest and most powerful NSF system, provides computational science and engineering teams with an effective, scalable, sustained-petascale computing platform at unmatched levels. NCSA has established a comprehensive support and outreach program by working closely with the teams that are using Blue Waters and with the larger computational science and engineering community, to enable them to take full advantage of the extraordinary capabilities of Blue Waters as well as those provided by similar systems such as Kraken, Stampede, Keeneland, Titan, and future petascale computing systems. This program, named NCSA/Illinois Enhanced Intellectual Services for Petascale Performance (NEIS-P2), includes a significant community outreach component aimed at enabling the general NSF computational science and engineering community to make effective use of petascale systems. The Community Engagement component includes activities to help prepare the next generation of petascale computational experts through a coordinated set of courses, workshops, fellowships and internships.The newly launched Blue Waters Graduate Fellows component of NEIS-P2 Community Engagement Program received more outstanding applications than can be funded with the budget available for this activity. This RAPID proposal is a request to support an additional four fellows during the 2014-2015 academic. The net result will be ten fellows supported during the first year of the Blue Waters Graduate Fellowship Program.