Travel Support: Student Program for Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing Conference (PEARC20)

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，供来自美国和世界各地的高性能计算(HPC)中心主任和经理、计算科学家、最终用户、学生、促进者、教育工作者、HPC系统管理员和用户支持人员以及行业和政府机构代表讨论挑战、机遇和解决方案。这次会议是在极端科学和工程发现环境(XSEDE)计划主办的为期五年的成功系列会议之后举行的。在XSEDE系列会议成功的基础上，PERC旨在通过包括更多的校园、国家和国际网络基础设施和研究计算合作伙伴来扩大社区。大会将于2020年7月26日至30日在线举行。该项目将资助学生参加会议，特别是学生项目活动，也将资助一小部分初级教职员工和研究人员参加会议。一些学生在会议上提交论文和海报，他们将优先获得资助该项目符合国家利益，正如美国国家科学基金会的使命所述，促进科学进步，因为它提供了一个传播研究成果，联系研究人员，培训下一代学者的论坛。由于新冠肺炎的旅行限制，会议将完全虚拟。这次会议的学生项目委员会正在招收学生，重点是多样化和包容代表不足的群体和来自不同机构的学生。对于学生计划，学生将参与(1)学生导师计划，该计划将帮助指导学生通过会议活动来指导学生；(2)学生志愿者计划，以帮助运行和组织虚拟会议；(3)快速网络会议，学生可以在其中与会议参展商一对一会面；以及(4)小组讨论，学生将参加关于HPC职业和进入HPC的职业道路的小组对话。NSF提供的资金将对高性能计算领域下一代研究人员的职业生涯产生重大影响，同时鼓励该领域的多样性。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。

The goal of the Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing (PEARC) Conference series is to provide a forum for discussing challenges, opportunities, and solutions among High Performance Computing (HPC) center directors and managers, computational scientists, end users, students, facilitators, educators, HPC system administrators and user support staff, as well as industry and government agency representatives from across the United States and around the world. The conference follows the successful five-year conference series that was hosted by the eXtreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) program. Building on the success of XSEDE conference series, PEARC aims to broaden the community by including additional campus, national, and international cyberinfrastructure and research computing partners. The conference will be held online from July 26-30, 2020. The project will fund students to participate in the conference, especially in the student program activities, and also fund a small number of junior faculty and researchers to participate in the conference. Some students are presenting papers and posters at the conference, will be given priority for funding The project serves the national interest, as stated by NSF's mission, to promote the progress of science as it provides a forum to disseminate research efforts, connect researchers, and train the next generation of scholars.Due to Covid-19 travel restrictions, the conference will be fully virtual. The student program committee for the conference is recruiting students with an emphasis on diversity and inclusion of underrepresented groups and from a diverse set of institutions. For the student program, students will participate in (1) a student mentor program, which pairs a student with a senior mentor to help guide the student through conference activities, (2) a student volunteer program, to help run and organize the virtual conference, (3), a speed networking session, where students can meet 1-on-1 with conference exhibitors, and (4) a panel discussion, where students will attend a panel conversation about careers in HPC and career paths into HPC. The funding provided by NSF will have a significant impact on the careers of the future generation of researchers in high performance computing, while encouraging diversity in the field.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.