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: 1738249
• 负责人: Dana Skow
• 金额: $ 4.9万
• 依托单位: University of Colorado at Boulder
• 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: 2016-10-01 至 2017-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1738249&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.

本研讨会旨在探讨研究计算工作人员社区的培训，这些工作人员通常在较小的大学服务。一般而言，包括目标分社区在内的网络基础设施队伍社区以特别方式接受培训。来自行业的不断拉动将这些关键人员聘用走，这特别影响到规模较小的机构的工作人员和培训问题。有从不同背景和机构招聘的计划。这次研讨会的这一关键方面将解决弱势群体更好地参与和培训这一新兴专业的问题。预计这也将促进类似的协调网络和培训活动。研讨会将安排在超级计算大会(SC-16)上，因此将对SC与会者产生影响并从中受益。这些培训活动与NSCI关于高性能计算中科学劳动力的劳动力发展的总统倡议保持一致，并服务于NSF促进准备推进科学的使命。研讨会将寻求确定社区需求和适当的培训材料，创建一个重要的社区网络，并为长期战略制定路线图。大多数教育机构的研究计算支持人员相对较少，通常从用户社区招聘新员工。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，由于工作人员人数较少，失去一名人员会对剩余的熟练人员的工作量产生重大影响。当地很少有专家留下来当学徒，因为员工人数少限制了技能裁员的选择。这次研讨会将汇集来自美国各地的专家，代表研究计算中心的领导人、系统管理员、教育项目和与研究计算相关的其他国家协调活动，并讨论解决受过培训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在较小的研究计算中心的工作人员中普遍存在的职业孤立感，特别是在旅行限制的时候。