Travel Support: Student Program for Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing Conference (PEARC19)

计算，特别是高级计算在当今社会的几乎各个方面都发挥着至关重要的作用，包括美国经济、制造业、科学和工程。对于来自传统科学和工程、医学研究和人文/社会科学等各个领域的研究人员和从业者来说，如果他们希望保持在各自领域的前沿、推进知识进步并提高生活质量，获得和理解先进的计算资源不再是一种奢侈，而是一种必需。为了实现这一目标，至关重要的是要有一支强大的专家队伍，他们具备利用先进计算资源所需的必要技能。高级研究计算实践和经验 (PEARC) 会议系列的目标是提供一个论坛，讨论整个研究计算从业者的当前实践、挑战和机遇，包括计算科学家、最终用户、学生和支持人员，以及行业和政府机构代表。在过去会议成功的基础上，该项目旨在为学生提供参加 PEARC19 会议和参加学生计划的旅行支持。因此，该项目符合 NSF 促进科学进步和促进国民健康、繁荣和福利的使命所规定的国家利益。 PEARC 会议（现已是第三年）是继 NSF 资助的为期五年的极限科学与工程发现环境 (XSEDE) 系列会议之后举行的。学生，尤其是来自代表性不足群体和经济弱势群体的学生，被招募参加 PEARC19。拟议的 PEARC19 学生计划为学生提供建模、机器学习、科学计算、数据分析以及现代研究人员工具包中许多其他工具的实际操作培训，这些工具是促进当今多学科研究项目所需的。目的是让学生尽可能广泛地接触高级研究计算领域的主题和实践，以帮助招募和培训下一代研究和计算科学家。参加学生项目的学生有机会通过提交学生论文和/或海报、分享他们的研究成果并从会议上志同道合的专家那里获得反馈、见解和灵感，为技术项目做出贡献。通过与 XSEDE 校园冠军计划合作，学生可以选择参加学生冠军计划，该计划为他们提供资源和可以咨询的专家社区，从而有机会开始围绕 PEARC19 学生计划工作建立一个社区，该社区的有效期将远远超出 7 月份学生参加会议的一周。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Computing and in particular advanced computing plays a vital role in virtually every aspect of society today, including the U.S. economy, manufacturing, science and engineering. Access to and an understanding of advanced computational resources by researchers and practitioners from a wide variety of fields from the traditional sciences and engineering to medical research and the humanities/social sciences is no longer a luxury but rather a necessity if they hope to stay at the forefront of their respective field, advance knowledge, and improve the quality of life. In order for this to happen, it is critical that there exists a robust pipeline of experts with the requisite skills needed to leverage advanced computing resources. The Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing (PEARC) Conference series goal is to provide a forum for discussing current practices, challenges, and opportunities across the entire spectrum of research computing practitioners, including computational scientists, end-users, students and support staff, as well as industry and government agency representatives. Building on the success of past conferences, this project aims to provide travel support to students to attend the PEARC19 conference and participate in the Student Program. This project, thus, serves the national interest as stated by NSF's mission to promote the progress of science and to advance the national health, prosperity and welfare.The PEARC conference (now in its 3rd year), follows the five-year NSF supported the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) conference series. Students, including importantly, students from underrepresented groups and economically disadvantaged sectors are recruited to attend PEARC19. The proposed PEARC19 Student Program provides the students with practical hands-on training in modeling, machine learning, scientific computing, data analytics and many other tools in the modern researcher?s toolkit that are needed to facilitate today's multidisciplinary research programs. The aim is to expose students to as broad a range of topics and practices in advanced research computing as possible with the goal of helping to recruit and train the next generation of research and computational scientists. Students participating in the student program receive an opportunity to contribute to the technical program by submitting a student paper and/or poster, sharing their research efforts and gaining feedback, insights and inspiration from like-minded experts at the conference. In collaboration with XSEDE Campus Champions program, students have the option to participate in the Student Champions program that provides them resources and a community of experts whom they may consult, which enables an opportunity to begin building a community around PEARC19 Student Program efforts that extends well beyond the one week in July when the students attend the conference.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.