Student Support: IEEE Cluster 2018 Conference

重要的是，STEM社区通过参与重要的科学会议来确定和培养下一代科学家。IEEE集群会议系列是一个展示高性能计算特别是集群计算新挑战的研究结果、问题解决方案和见解的国际活动，它一直在通过寻求增加学生对会议和集群计算领域的参与来追求这一使命。为此，在集群会议上建立了学生计划，为学生提供全面的手段来提高他们的整体研究技能和规划，而不仅仅是展示海报和论文。通过参加学生计划，学生现在可以获得独特的体验，并与集群计算社区的学术和行业研究人员进行互动。通过IEEE集群学生项目对研究的总体接触促进了对科学方法的基础理解，这将在学生的整个职业生涯中很好地服务于学生，并与美国国家科学基金会S促进科学进步的使命相一致。该奖项支持来自美国机构的最多20名学生前往IEEE集群2018参加学生项目。2018年IEEE集群的学生计划包括在午休期间和常规课程结束后安排的多个课程。这些会议的目标是研究陈述培训、研究经验和职业指导、行业互动以及来自最佳论文候选人的反馈。旅行津贴特别鼓励那些没有充足资金的学生和那些刚刚开始参与这一领域或有兴趣进入该领域的学生的研究兴趣和参与。特别是通过向全国少数族裔工程和科学研究生学位联合会成员的大学计算机科学和工程系的研究生项目征集旅行支持的申请。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

It is important that the STEM community identifies and develops the next generation of scientists through engagement in premier scientific conferences. The IEEE Cluster conference series, an international event for presenting the research results, problem solutions, and insights on new challenges in high performance computing in general and cluster computing in particular, has beenpursuing this mission by seeking to increase student participation in the conference and the cluster computing field. To this end, the student program at the Cluster conference has been established to provide a comprehensive means for students to improve their overall research skills and planning rather than just presenting posters and papers. By attending the student program, students can now obtain unique experiences and interactions with academic and industry researchers in the cluster computing community. The overall exposure to research through the IEEE Cluster student program promotes foundational understanding of scientific methods, which will serve the students well throughout their careers, and is aligned with NSF?s mission of promoting progress of science.This award supports the travel of up to 20 students from US-based institutions to participate in the student program at IEEE Cluster 2018. The student program at IEEE Cluster 2018 includes multiple sessions scheduled during the lunch breaks and after the end of the regular sessions. The sessions target research presentation training, research experience and career guidance, industry interaction, and feedback from the best paper candidates. Travel grants particularly encourage the research interests and the involvement of students in the field who are not well funded and those who are just beginning their participation in the field or are interested in entering it.Particular effort is made to solicit applications for the travel support from female students and students from under-represented communities by reaching out to graduate programs of computer science and engineering departments at universities who are members of the National Consortium for Graduate Degrees for Minorities in Engineering and Science.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.