Workshop on Professional Development for University Research Computing Specialists

该研讨会旨在探讨通常在较小的大学服务的研究计算人员社区的培训。 一般来说，网络基础设施队伍，包括目标群体，是以特别的方式进行培训的。 工业界不断要求将这些关键人员挖走，这特别影响到有工作人员和培训问题的小型机构。 有计划从不同背景和机构征聘人员。本次研讨会的这一关键方面将解决更好地参与和培训服务不足的社区为这一新兴的职业。 预计这也将促进类似的协调网络和培训活动。 研讨会将在超级计算会议（SC-16）上举行，因此将影响并受益于SC与会者。 这些培训活动与总统NSCI关于高性能计算科学劳动力发展的倡议保持一致，并为NSF的使命服务，以促进科学进步。该研讨会将寻求确定社区需求和适当的培训材料，创建一个关键的社区网络，并制定长期战略的路线图。 大多数教育机构的研究计算支持人员相对较少，通常从用户社区招募新员工。这些工作人员接受在职培训，学习研究计算的专门技能。 然而，由于工作人员人数少，失去一个人会使剩下的熟练人员的工作量发生重大变化。 很少有当地的专家留下来做学徒，因为员工人数少限制了技能冗余的选择。该研讨会将聚集来自美国各地的专家，代表研究计算中心，系统管理员，教育计划和其他与研究计算相关的国家协调活动的领导者，并讨论解决训练有素的研究计算专业人员短缺的可能方法。 目标之一也是为了防止小型研究计算中心工作人员普遍存在的职业孤立感，特别是在旅行限制时期。

This workshop intends to explore the training of the community of research computing staff typically serving at smaller universities. In general, the community of cyberinfrastructure processionals, which includes the targeted sub community, is trained in an ad-hoc fashion. There is a constant pull from industry to hire away such critical personnel, which specially impacts smaller institutions with staff and training issues. There are plans for recruitment from diverse backgrounds and institutions. This critical aspect of this workshop will address better participation and training of underserved community for this emerging profession. This is also expected to foster similar coordination networks and training activities. The workshop will be collocated at Super Computing conference (SC-16); thus is will impact and benefit from the SC attendees. Such training activities are aligned with the presidential NSCI initiative on workforce development of scientific workforce in high performance computing, and serve the NSF's mission in promoting preparedness to advance science. The workshop will seek to identify community needs and appropriate training material, creating a critical community network, and developing a roadmap for long term strategy. Most educational institutions have relatively small research computing support staff and typically recruit their new staff from their user community. These staff are given on-the-job training to learn the specialized skills of research computing. Because of the small staff size, however, the loss of a single individual makes a significant change on the workload of the remaining skilled individuals. There is rarely a local expert remaining with whom to apprentice, as small staffs limit skill redundancy options. This workshop will gather experts from across the US, representing leaders of research computing centers, system administrators, educational programs, and other national coordination activities related to research computing, and discuss possible methods of addressing this shortage of trained research computing professionals. One of the goals is also to prevent the sense of professional isolation so common among smaller research computing centers' staffs, particularly in times of travel restrictions.