Graduate Research Fellows Cyberinfrastructure Resources Workshop

约翰·汤斯UIUC？NCSAOCI 0750408随着先进的计算、数据和可视化资源的开发和集成，通过部署国家和国际网络基础设施，如TeraGrid，提高我们STEM员工的研究生产力的潜力是前所未有的。这里提出的研讨会是一个机会，通过国家科学基金会S研究生研究奖学金计划(GRFP)来利用这一网络基础设施发展，以实现其超级计算机访问计划的现代化。研究生研究员取得令人振奋的成功的机会已经存在。通过提高对现有资源和服务的认识，并逐步改进这些服务及其可获得性，就可以实现这些新的成功。服务的渐进式改进将包括分配更多的计算时间、获取图像和数据库资源、更有效地培训CI的使用以及关于网关和软件可用性的信息。通过这些增加的CI服务来加强科学和工程培训计划，为提高美国的研究生产率和创造力提供了无与伦比的机会？未来的STEM劳动力。要实现这些进展，需要提高对CI资源可用性的认识，并在这些正在崛起的STEM研究人员中了解CI协议和方法。一个特别重要但在很大程度上尚未开发的新兴STEM劳动力受众将受益于CI提高的研究生产率，他们是3000多名活跃的NSF研究生研究员。GRFP是美国国家科学基金会最古老和最知名的项目之一[2]。自1952年以来，GRFP资助了43,000多名STEM专业的研究生，为研究生学习的早期阶段提供了三年的津贴和教育费用支持。为所有学生提供国际旅行的额外援助，以及在NSF支持的超级计算机设施之一获得超级计算时间。另一组能力很强的早期STEM工作者是每年被评为研究生研究员荣誉称号的近2000名获奖者。这些能力很强的研究生构成了我们一些最有前途的STEM研究人员的骨干，他们正处于职业生涯的形成阶段，并处于有利地位，可以从更多地获得最先进的研究工具中受益。尽管研究生研究员的超级计算机访问计划由来已久，但由于缺乏对高性能计算的现代观点和对构成CI的广泛计算资源的认识，超级计算机访问计划的参与率仍然很低。为了解决这一缺陷，我们提议举办一个网络研讨会，向研究生研究员和荣誉奖获得者介绍由NSF支持的大量CI资源，以及他们如何利用这些资源来加强和转变他们的研究活动。研讨会将在多个地点使用接入网格(CI的一个组件)进行。其中一些距离300多名当前的研究生研究员和荣誉奖获得者很近。这些研讨会将提供：a)CI及其组成部分的概述b)学生和其他人如何使用CI来加强他们的研究的例子c)通过GRF计划向他们提供的CI资源的描述d)关于如何申请访问CI资源的信息。拟议的研讨会将帮助GRFP S努力通过提高对CI提供的研究机会的认识，在研究生研究员中建设人的能力。研讨会将借鉴NCSA在为各级科学和数学教育提供工具和资源使用方面的综合计算科学教育和培训方面所取得的其他经验

John TownsUIUC ? NCSAOCI 0750408As advanced computing, data and visualization resources are developed and integrated through the deployment of national and international cyberinfrastructures such as the TeraGrid, the potential to enhance research productivity among our STEM workforce is unprecedented. The workshop proposed here is an opportunity to capitalize on this cyberinfrastructure development through the, NSF?s Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP) effort to modernize its supercomputer access program. The opportunities for exciting successes of Graduate Research Fellows already exist. By heightening awareness of the resources and services available and by making incremental improvements in those services and their accessibility, these nascent successes can be realized. Incremental improvements in services would include a larger allocation of computing time, access to imaging and database resources, more efficient training of CI use, and information on gateways and software availability. The enhancement of science and engineering training programs through these increased CI services offers an unparalleled opportunity to advance research productivity and creativity in the United States? future STEM workforce. Realization of these advances requires an increased awareness of CI resource availability and an understanding of CI protocols and methodology among these rising STEM researchers. One particularly important but largely untapped emerging STEM workforce audience that would benefit from the enhanced research productivity of CI is the more than 3000 active NSF Graduate Research Fellows. The GRFP is one of the oldest and most recognizable programs at the National Science Foundation [2 ]. Since 1952, over 43,000 graduate students in the STEM disciplines have been supported by the GRFP, which provides three years of stipend and cost of education support for the early stages of graduate study. Additional assistance for international travel is provided to all students as well as access to supercomputing time at one of the NSF-supported supercomputer facilities. Another highly capable group of early career STEM workers is the almost 2000 recipients of Graduate Research Fellows Honorable Mention that are identified each year. These highly capable graduate students constitute a cadre of some of our most promising STEM researchers in the formative stages of their careers and are well positioned to benefit from increased access to state of the art research tools. Despite a long-standing program of supercomputer access for Graduate Research Fellows, participation rates in the supercomputer access program remain low for lack of a modern perspective on high performance computing and awareness of the broad scope of computing resources that constitute CI. To address this shortcoming, we propose a cyber-enabled workshop to introduce Graduate Research Fellows and Honorable Mention recipients to the large array of NSF-supported CI resources and how they can use these resources to enhance and transform their research activities. The workshop will be conducted using the Access Grid (a component of CI) at multiple locations ? some within close proximity to over 300 current Graduate Research Fellows and Honorable Mention recipients. These workshops will provide: a) an overview of CI and its components b) examples of how students and others have used CI to enhance their research c) a description of CI resources available to them through the GRF Program d) information on how to apply for access to CI resources. The proposed workshop will help the GRFP?s efforts to build human capacity among Graduate Research Fellows by increasing awareness of the research opportunities afforded through CI. The workshop will draw on other experiences gained by NCSA in providing an integrated spectrum of computational science education and training in the use of tools and resources, for science and math education at all level