August 15 2016 CEE Overview Kelly Gaither CEE

August 15, 2016 CEE Overview Kelly Gaither CEE Director kelly@tacc. utexas. edu

Community Engagement & Enrichment (CEE) Mission: Actively engage a broad and diverse cross-section of the open science community, bringing together those interested in using, integrating with, enabling, and enhancing the national cyberinfrastructure Linda Akli 2

Workforce Development ● Provide a continuum of learning resources and services to the XSEDE community through an integrated suite of training and education activities -- L 3 Lead, Linda Akli, SURA (Also CEE Deputy) ● Work closely with ECSS 3

Workforce Development: Training ● ● 4 Develops and delivers training programs to enhance the skills of the national open science community and ensure productive use of XSEDE’s cyberinfrastructure -- Lead, Susan Mehringer, Cornell Work closely with ECSS, particularly ESTEO

Unique Training Attendees by Quarter 5

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You. Tube. com/XSEDETraining ~482 hours Watch time: The amount of time that a viewer has watched a video Subscribers: The number of viewers who have subscribed to your channel Views: The number of legitimate views for your channels or videos 7

One Month for Comparison ~47 hours 8

Workforce Development: Education • Support faculty in all fields of study with their incorporation of advanced digital technology capabilities within the undergraduate and graduate curriculum - Lead, Linda Akli, SURA • Work closely with ECSS 9

EMPOWER: (Expert Mentoring Producing Opportunities for Work, Education and Research) – Aaron Weeden, Shodor David Hughes, Cal Poly Pomona (Summer 2018 - Spring 2019) - The amount of knowledge and experience I gained through the program directly exceeds what any lecture class could possibly give to a typical undergraduate student. Professionally, the program has greatly improved my public speaking skills and abilities to talk about Computer Science. Due to working with my mentor, I have taken part in giving guest lectures, going to research fairs, and talking to individuals and large groups about my research. In the past I dreaded public speaking, but now the XSEDE EMPOWER program has given me confidence in an area that is not directly related to what was written in the project summary. Diego Losada Rubio, Wofford College (Summer 2018) - The XSEDE EMPOWER Program helped me to understand learn complicated concepts and challenges on parallel computing and simulations. And those challenges that I once overcame are going to help me now in a new summer research experience where I am going to be doing molecular dynamics simulations using a supercomputer. 10

Curriculum and Educator Programs – Lead, Kate Cahill, Ohio State University • Collaborative Courses: – – 11 Applications of Parallel Computing Collaborative course ran Spring 2019 – 18 institutions received, enrolled 229 students Offering again spring 2020 and looking into adding material for a pre-requisite course

Curriculum and Educator Programs – Lead, Kate Cahill, Ohio State University • Curriculum Development: – – – West Virginia University added a data science minor program starting Fall 2019, based on work with Education program and a Campus Champion Fellow in 2015 (Don Mc. Laughlin) New Mexico State added a minor in computational engineering in 2018, Thomas Manz attended a workshop with XSEDE Education in 2014 Kean University (NJ) added a 5 year BS/MS Computational Science Program and a science education course “Pedagogy of Modeling and Simulation” These interactions started in XSEDE 1 and have continued since. – 12 C 2 Exchange, led by Cahill and Akli, is a pilot program for curriculum exchange among five MSIs. This is an extension of the collaborative curriculum delivery model started in XSEDE 1 (e. g. Jim Demmel course)

Workforce Development PY 9 Priorities Education • Formal Mentoring S – Undergraduate Petascale Institute (Interns Held August 19 - 23 and Faculty) – XSEDE EMPOWER VI T IE (Undergraduate/Graduate students) AC TI • Formal Learning – Assist institutions with the creation of O NG O IN G semester long computational science programs – Maintain HPCU site 13

User Engagement ● Capture community needs, requirements, and recommendations for improvements to XSEDE’s resources and services, and report to the national community how their feedback is being addressed -- L 3 Lead, Bryan Snead, TACC ● Work across all L 2 areas, very closely with RAS and ECSS 14

IV IT IE S User Engagement PY 9 Priorities • Mine User/Community Feedback ON GO IN G AC T – Mine user survey including user comments – Monitor/mine user forums and feedback tickets • Obtain User/Community Feedback – Conduct user interviews – Annual user survey – Assist with micro surveys 15

Broadening Participation ● Engage underrepresented minority researchers from domains that are not traditional users of HPC and from Minority Serving Institutions – L 3 Lead, Linda Akli, SURA ● Now includes student preparation – Lead, Rosalia Gomez, TACC ● Work closely with ECSS, very closely with ESTEO 16

New and Sustained Users Over Time We have seen a steady growth in sustained URM students benefitting from resources and services. High percentage of sustained users are URM and Women. New Users include any individual who created a portal account within the reporting period. Sustained Users include any individual who created a portal account prior to the current reporting period and logged in during the reporting period. 17 Number of underrepresented students who participated in XSEDE training, were supported by XSEDE to work on XSEDE projects, received funding to attend the annual PEARC Conference (formerly XSEDExy), or SC conferences as indicated by registrations in the XSEDE portal during the current reporting period.

Sustained Usage of XSEDE by URMs and Women Steady increase indicates adoption of advanced computing and growth of usage by historically underserved communities. URM and Women have high rates of continuing usage – more analysis needed but these individuals are at locations that do not have local resources. 18

Successful Pilot of Collaborative Student Training with CSULA (Cal State LA) Expanded XSEDE reach to a cohort of 70 students being prepared for research. Model for collaborating with other institutions. Evaluation findings (1) more confident about degree completion & increased interest in pursuing advanced degrees (2) increased quality & diversity applications to ACSC/C 4 C workshops/REU & other student programs. 19 Pre and Post Evaluation conducted by CSULA

Advanced Computing for Social Change Challenge SC 16: Data-driven Analysis of Black Lives Matter Movement • 60% Female Participants • 40% African American • 58% First Gen College Students 20 SC 17: Exploring Immigration Through Big Data Lens • • Nine students from local area Four mentors brought back from SC 16 challenge

SC 18: Computing 4 Change Sponsored by SIGHPC • • Received ~250 applications from around the world Accepted 16 competitors – – From 5 countries – – 44% from resource constrained institutions 10 female, 1 non-binary 2 with disabilities 33% Black/African American, 25% Latinx, 19% White , 13% Asian, Native Hawaiian/Pacific Islander or Mediterranean descent 1 from a Community College Brought in a Native Hawaiian team from Chaminade University & Introduced Cultural Competency 21

Supporting pacific indigenous computing excellent (SPICE) • • 2 Year NSF INCLUDES grant supplemented by XSEDE participant support funding Partnership with Chaminade University of Honolulu and Georgia Institute of Technology Month long Summer Immersion Experience to train undergraduate Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders (NHPI) in data science and analytics using visualization as “universal language” • Integrates and privileges Indigenous Culture • 21 students (91% NHPI) Topics include: Renewable Energy, Sustainable Fisheries, Homelessness, Impact of Western Diet on Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders, Factors Contributing to Low NHPI Numbers in STEM, and Impact of FEMA Construction on Traditional Chamorron Culture 22

TI VI TI ES Broadening Participation PY 9 Priorities ON GO IN G AC • Outreach: campus visits, conference exhibition, training • Community Building • Diversity & Inclusion • Project Wide Equity Efforts 23

Broadening Participation PY 9 Priorities • • AC Mine evaluation data over 4 year period for publication and dissemination O 24 NG O IN G • TI VI T Y • Advanced Computing for Social Change -- PEARC 19 to include both students and faculty Held July 27 – Aug 1 Computing 4 Change -- SC 19 expanded from 3 day competition to 4 day challenge and from 16 students to 20 students To Be Held Nov 17– 21 Advanced Computing for Social Change SC 16 Summer Immersion Experience – Partnering with NSF SPICE INCLUDES Held May 20 – Jun 14 Advanced Computing for Social Change SC 17

User Interfaces & Online Information ● Enables the discovery, understanding, and effective utilization of XSEDE’s powerful capabilities and services through an ongoing effort to improve and engage a variety of audiences via the XSEDE website and user portal -L 3 Lead, Maytal Dahan, TACC 25

User Interfaces & Online Information PY 9 Priorities TI VI TI ES • Online ON GO IN G AC – Maintain technology capabilities – Support backend services • Documentation – Ensure user guides kept up to date – Ensure new services and features are documented • Expanded Feature Set – Based on user and staff requirements 26

Campus Engagement ● Promotes and facilitates the effective participation of a diverse national community of campuses in the application of advanced digital resources and services to accelerate discovery, enhance education, and foster scholarly achievement – L 3 Co -Leads, Dana Brunson, Internet 2 and Henry Neeman, University of Oklahoma ● Work with all areas of XSEDE 27

Campus Champions Research computing community facilitating computing- and dataintensive research and education 28

Champions Over Time 500 450 400 350 300 250 200 150 100 50 0 2008 29 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018

What Champions Talked About Last Year: • • Number of messages: 1692 Number of threads: 734 Number of unique senders: 316 30 • • • list of universities that use a vpn access to hpc clusters | 65 arm for hpc | 36 champions at pearc | 34 new cluster linpack (hpl) performing poorly on some nodes | 24 ask. ci question of the week | 19 cluster resources on battery? | 19 condo funding models | 19 guidance for what can benefit from hpc? | 19 access to non-xsede hpc systems? | 17 hpc user guide template inquiry | 16

2018 Climate Study Highlights: 31 ● Champions reported high Overall Experience in the program. Newer members expressed exceptionally high satisfaction (accounted for more than half of respondents). ● The Champion community’s impact extends beyond individual knowledge and skills improvement to institutionalization of the Champion role, changes in institutional research computing policy, and inclusion of Champions in strategic talent recruitment for their organizations. ● Champions are pursuing sustainability following XSEDE. ● Respondents from non-research-intensive organizations and members of marginalized groups including women and underrepresented racial/ethnic groups in HPC, report positive experiences in the organization.

Campus Engagement PY 9 Priorities AC TI VI TI ES • Sustainability ON GO IN G – Professionalize organizational practices – Finalize sustainability plan – Formalize best practices for virtual organization 32

Successes Enabled By Efforts in XSEDE: Funding Awarded (>$16 M to date) • NSF SGCI ($15 M) – co-PI Dahan • NSF Includes ($299 K) – PI Gaither, co-PI Gomez, TACC (external evaluator De. Stefano) • NSF Cybertraining ($499 K) – PI Cahill, Ohio State, Co-PI Akli, SURA • NSF REU Site ($323 K) – PI Gomez, co-PI Gaither, TACC • ACM Grant for Computing 4 Change ($100 K) – PI Gaither Funding Submitted: • NSF Includes Alliance ($4. 6 M) – PI Gaither, co-PI Gomez, TACC (external evaluator De. Stefano) Out of 7 leaders in CEE, 5 are women and of those women, 3 are women of color 33