RAPID: Blue Waters Graduate Fellowship Expansion

Blue Waters系统是最大和最强大的NSF系统，它以无与伦比的水平为计算科学和工程团队提供了一个有效、可扩展、持续PB级的计算平台。NCSA通过与使用Blue Waters的团队以及更大的计算科学和工程社区密切合作，建立了一个全面的支持和推广计划，使他们能够充分利用Blue Waters以及Kraken、Stampede、Keeneland、Titan和未来的千万亿级计算系统等类似系统提供的非凡能力。这项名为NCSA/Illinois Enhanced Intelligence Services for Petascale Performance(NEIS-P2)的计划包括一个重要的社区扩展部分，旨在使普通的NSF计算科学和工程社区能够有效地利用Petascale系统。社区参与部分包括通过一套协调一致的课程、讲习班、研究金和实习，帮助培养新一代千万亿级计算专家的活动。新推出的NEIS-P2社区参与方案的Blue Waters研究生部分收到的未决申请超过了这项活动的现有预算所能提供的资金。这一快速提议是要求在2014-2015年度期间再支持四名研究员。最终结果将是在蓝水研究生奖学金计划的第一年期间支持10名研究员。

The Blue Waters system, the largest and most powerful NSF system, provides computational science and engineering teams with an effective, scalable, sustained-petascale computing platform at unmatched levels. NCSA has established a comprehensive support and outreach program by working closely with the teams that are using Blue Waters and with the larger computational science and engineering community, to enable them to take full advantage of the extraordinary capabilities of Blue Waters as well as those provided by similar systems such as Kraken, Stampede, Keeneland, Titan, and future petascale computing systems. This program, named NCSA/Illinois Enhanced Intellectual Services for Petascale Performance (NEIS-P2), includes a significant community outreach component aimed at enabling the general NSF computational science and engineering community to make effective use of petascale systems. The Community Engagement component includes activities to help prepare the next generation of petascale computational experts through a coordinated set of courses, workshops, fellowships and internships.The newly launched Blue Waters Graduate Fellows component of NEIS-P2 Community Engagement Program received more outstanding applications than can be funded with the budget available for this activity. This RAPID proposal is a request to support an additional four fellows during the 2014-2015 academic. The net result will be ten fellows supported during the first year of the Blue Waters Graduate Fellowship Program.