Collaborative Research: Mentoring the Next Generation of Parallel Processing Researchers at IPDPS and other IEEE-CSTCPP Sponsored Conferences

从参加会议到参加会议，学生们可以建立专业联系和合作，向潜在雇主推销自己，接触到更广泛的导师网络，并为新的研究途径找到灵感。学生指导计划在为年轻与会者提供必要的工具以利用他们参与会议方面发挥着重要作用。学生项目已经出现在几个领先的会议上，但仍远未被广泛采用。特别是，国际并行和分布式处理研讨会(IPDPS)十多年来一直在主持一个博士论坛和学生项目。该计划已发展成为一个全面的培训研讨会，其中包括职业规划课程以及写作和演示技能的实践教程；它还为学生提供有效的网络机会。该项目力求将综合方案指导和外联模式扩展到属于并行和分布式处理这一广泛领域的其他会议。并行和分布式处理对于各种学科来说变得越来越重要，在这些学科中，传统的计算方法缺乏处理大数据量或昂贵计算的机制。正如NSF的使命所述，该项目支持教育和多样性，同时通过指导高性能计算学科的下一代劳动力来促进科学进步。该项目有两个具体目标：1)支持学生参与第32届IEEE国际并行和分布式处理研讨会。IPDPS是一个由来自世界各地的工程师和科学家参加的国际会议，旨在展示他们在并行计算各个方面的最新研究成果。2)促进在其他IEEE TCPP会议上采用学生指导计划，例如：AICCSA、DCOSS、DS-RT、e-Energy、HIPC、ICCABS、ICPADS、NAS、PACT、PerCom。受益者会议需要促进学生与同行和导师建立网络的介绍性会议。此外，会议组织者还获得了IPDPS-S博士论坛的后勤计划，并鼓励他们举办类似的经过验证的活动；包括海报会议和辅导研讨会。只有目前在美国大学学习的学生才有资格获得这个由NSF资助的项目的支持。该项目特别针对那些通常在没有经济支持的情况下无法参加这些会议的学生，如本科生、第一年的研究生和参加第一次会议的学生。为了增加参与者的多样性，该项目强烈鼓励女性和其他代表性不足的群体参与。该奖项反映了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。

From their attendance to conferences, students can form professional connections and establish collaborations, market themselves to potential employers, get exposed to a wider network of mentors, and find inspiration for novel research avenues. Student mentoring programs play an important role in providing younger attendees with the necessary tools to take advantage of their participation at conferences. Student programs have emerged in several leading conferences, but are still far from being widely adopted. In particular the International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS) has been hosting a PhD forum and student program for over a decade. This program has evolved into a comprehensive training workshop that includes sessions on career planning and hands on tutorials on writing and presentation skills; it also provides effective opportunities for student networking. This project seeks to expand the IPDPS mentoring and outreach model into other conferences that fall under the broad field of parallel and distributed processing. Parallel and distributed processing has become increasingly important for a variety of disciplines where traditional computational methods lack the mechanisms to deal with large data volumes or expensive computations. As stated by NSF's mission, this project supports education and diversity, while promoting the progress of science by mentoring the next-generation workforce in the high performance computing discipline.This project has two concrete goals: 1) supporting student participation at the 32nd IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium. IPDPS is an international conference for engineers and scientists from around the world to present their latest research findings in all aspects of parallel computation. 2) promoting the adoption of student mentoring programs in other IEEE TCPP conferences, such as: AICCSA, DCOSS, DS-RT, e-Energy, HiPC, ICCABS, ICPADS, NAS, PACT, PERCOM. The beneficiary conferences are required to facilitate an introductory session where students network with peers and mentors. Additionally, conference organizers are provided with the logistic plan of IPDPS?s PhD Forum and are encouraged to have similar proven activities; including a poster session and mentoring workshops. Only students currently studying at U.S. universities are eligible to receive support from this NSF-funded project. This project targets especially students that typically cannot attended these conferences without financial support, such as undergraduate students, graduate students in their first years, and students attending their first conference. In order to increase the diversity of attendees, the project strongly encourages the participation of females and other underrepresented groups.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.