Workshop on Professional Development for University Research Computing Specialists

大学研究计算专家专业发展研讨会

• 批准号: 1646896
• 负责人: Dana Skow
• 金额: $ 4.9万
• 依托单位: University of Wyoming
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-09-01 至 2017-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1646896&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Workshop; Professional; Development; University; Research

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.

本次研讨会旨在探讨对通常在小型大学服务的研究计算人员社区的培训。 一般来说，网络基础设施游行社区（包括目标子社区）以临时方式进行培训。 业界一直在不断地聘用此类关键人员，这尤其影响到存在人员和培训问题的小型机构。 有计划从不同背景和机构招募人才。本次研讨会的这一关键方面将解决服务不足的社区对这一新兴职业的更好参与和培训。 预计这也将促进类似的协调网络和培训活动。 该研讨会将在超级计算会议（SC-16）期间举行；因此，SC 与会者将会受到影响并从中受益。 此类培训活动与 NSCI 总统关于高性能计算领域科学劳动力发展的倡议相一致，并服务于 NSF 促进科学进步的准备工作的使命。该研讨会将寻求确定社区需求和适当的培训材料，创建关键的社区网络，并制定长期战略路线图。 大多数教育机构的研究计算支持人员相对较少，并且通常从用户社区招募新员工。这些员工接受在职培训，学习研究计算的专业技能。 然而，由于人员规模较小，单个人员的流失会对剩余技术人员的工作量造成重大变化。 很少有当地专家留下来跟随学徒，因为员工人数较少，限制了技能冗余的选择。本次研讨会将聚集来自美国各地的专家，代表研究计算中心的领导者、系统管理员、教育项目和其他与研究计算相关的国家协调活动，并讨论解决训练有素的研究计算专业人员短缺问题的可能方法。 目标之一也是防止小型研究计算中心员工普遍存在的职业孤立感，特别是在旅行限制时期。