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

计算，特别是先进计算，在当今社会的几乎每一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。从传统科学和工程到医学研究和人文科学/社会科学等各个领域的研究人员和从业人员访问和了解先进的计算资源不再是一种奢侈品，而是一种必要，如果他们希望保持在各自领域的前沿，提高知识，并提高生活质量。要做到这一点，关键是要有一个强大的专家管道，这些专家具有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(PERC)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。在以往会议成功的基础上，该项目旨在为参加PEARC19会议和参与学生计划的学生提供旅行支持。因此，这个项目符合国家科学基金会的使命，即促进科学进步，促进国家健康、繁荣和福祉。PIRC会议(现已进入第三个年头)，是在国家科学基金会支持极端科学和工程发现环境(XSEDE)系列会议五年之后举行的。学生，包括来自代表人数不足的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、数据分析和许多现代研究人员-S工具包中的其他工具的实践动手培训，这些工具是促进当今多学科研究计划所需的。其目的是让学生接触到尽可能广泛的高级研究计算主题和实践，以帮助招募和培训下一代研究和计算科学家。参与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，并在会议上从志同道合的专家那里获得反馈、见解和灵感，从而为技术项目做出贡献。

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.