Staff Updates: Congrats Dana and Linda!
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Dana Brunson,
co-manager of XSEDE's Campus Engagement team, recently joined the Trusted CI team as the Executive Director for Research Engagement at Internet2! This change follows a successful tenure at Oklahoma State University where she served as in several roles, most recently as the assistant vice president for research cyberinfrastructure. Dana will continue her role with XSEDE and the Campus Champions community in this new role. Congrats, Dana!
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Linda Akli,
manager of XSEDE's Broadening Participation Program, was recently featured as a leading woman working in HPC by
HPCwire
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Celebrating Women in Science: Meet Four Women Leading the Way in HPC
was published on February 11, in celebration of
International Day of Women and Girls in Science
day, and shares experiences and advice from four women leading the HPC field. Awesome work, Linda!
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XSEDE Campus Champion Dina Tandabany Receives 2019 HBCU STEM Innovator Award
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Last month, Dr. Dinadayalane (Dina) Tandabany was one of seven nationwide faculty presented with the 2019 Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Innovator Award at the
33rd Black Engineer of the Year Awards (BEYA) STEM Global Competitiveness Conference
hosted by Lockheed Martin, US Black Engineer Magazine, and the Council of Engineering Deans of the Historically Black College and Universities (HBCU).
Tandabany, an Associate Professor of Chemistry at Clark Atlanta University (CAU) in Atlanta, who specializes in computational chemistry and bionanoscience, has been a very engaged member of the XSEDE community, serving as an XSEDE Campus Champion since 2015 and a member of the XRAC Materials Science Review Team. He has also hosted XSEDE faculty development workshops and developed computational and data science curricula used across the U.S. Congrats, Dina!
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XSEDE Staff Publications Initiati
ve—Share your work!
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Do you have information to share with the advanced research computing community? Now is the time to look back on PY8 and make sure you have uploaded all of your publications to the User Portal, and it’s also time to plan for your PY9 publication efforts. As a reminder, each L2 area should be incorporating staff publication time into their PY9 plans. This includes planning for staff time to create publications and presentations, creating submission opportunities as teams, and citing relevant pre-existing publications. These could be traditional types of peer-reviewed publications OR what we’re calling Technical Report Series (TRS) publications, which are other publications of importance to the community that might not otherwise be published in peer-reviewed publications (i.e., policies, documentation, user guides, operating guides, reports, white papers, etc.). To allow us to better track the publication efforts of all staff, we have set up a simple form that you can complete with any planned or in-progress publications. By filling out this form, you will help XSEDE leadership better understand what is in the staff publications pipeline, and the form will help you by feeding a Jira tracking process that will send you timely reminders and help route any Technical Report Series publications through the TRS process. You will find more information about the XSEDE Staff Publications Initiative and the form to add your publications on the staff wiki
https://confluence.xsede.org/display/XT/XSEDE+Staff+Publications+Initiative+and+Technical+Report+Series
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Link your ORCID ID to your XUP profile
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XSEDE staff can now link their ORCID IDs to their XUP profiles. This can be done by signing in to the XUP, selecting "My Profile" under the "My XSEDE" tab, and selecting "Manage your ORCID ID." More info on ORCID and why you should connect it with XSEDE can be found at the link below.
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Apply for XSEDE Project Improvement Funds (PIF)
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Have a creative idea for improving XSEDE and the things we're doing? Apply for funding for a short-term project through the Project Improvement Fund (PIF). Talk to your manager or visit the
PIF wiki page
to learn more.
Based on feedback from those that have submitted ideas in the past, we've updated and simplified the submission tool to make it easier to get your ideas in front of our leadership team.
Get your idea submitted in four steps (from the wiki):
- Review the XSEDE Goals and remember that alignment to these goals is an important consideration given to all improvement idea submissions.
- Collect your thoughts on something that you believe would improve the XSEDE project and is aligned to the XSEDE Goals.
- Contact any L2 Director and ask them to review your improvement idea. The L2 Director that reviews your improvement idea and provides feedback, will be referred to as your "L2 Sponsor." L2 Directors have been asked to be responsive to review requests from staff members that wish to submit an improvement idea. They have also been asked to coach submitters on producing well written idea submissions.
- After receiving approval from your L2 Sponsor, submit your Improvement Idea via the online PIF Submission form. Note: L2 Sponsor approval is required for an improvement idea submission to be considered by the SMT.
If you have any questions or comments, please send them to
pif@xsede.org
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Upcoming Trusted CI Opportunities
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Open Science Cybersecurity Fellows Program: Applications due March 13
Trusted CI serves the scientific community as the NSF Cybersecurity Center of
Excellence, providing leadership and assistance with cybersecurity in support of research. In 2019, Trusted CI is establishing an Open Science Cybersecurity Fellows program which will establish and support a network of Fellows with diversity in both geography and scientific discipline. These Fellows will have access to training and other resources to foster their professional development in cybersecurity. In exchange, they will champion cybersecurity for science in their scientific and geographic communities, and communicate challenges and successful practices to Trusted CI.
The Open Science Cybersecurity Fellows program will accept six Fellows who will receive recognition, cybersecurity professional development training, and travel funding. Learn more and apply through the link below.
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One-on-One Engagements: Apply by April 3 for July-Dec. 2019 Engagement
One of Trusted CI's core activities is conducting one-on-one engagements with NSF projects and facilities. Topics for engagements include anything broadly in the scope of information security and can include development of new cybersecurity programs, assessing existing cybersecurity programs, software assurance, identity management, recommendations on new software features. Examples of prior engagements can be found on their
blog
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For the upcoming application period of July-December 2019 engagements, Trusted CI expects to accept 3 applications, with one (at most) in the area of software security and one in the area of identity management. Based on prior application periods, we expect to accept less than half of the applications.
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Gateways 2019 Call for Participation
Abstracts due April 29; Full submissions due May 6
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Call for Participation: Gateways 2019
(September 23–25, San Diego, California) is now accepting submissions of papers, demos, tutorials, and panels (2-4 pages) on the topic of gateways for science, engineering, or other disciplines. Gateways are user-friendly interfaces to scientific computing, data, and other domain-specific resources to support research and education.
Topics may include their design, use, impact, development processes, sustainability, best practices, or any other aspect that you think fellow gateway creators or users will find interesting to learn. We also welcome educational topics directed toward the next generation of gateway creators.
In addition, this year Gateways 2019 is co-located with the
eScience
conference.
The two conferences will offer shared sessions and connected registration.
Abstracts are due April 29, and full submissions are due May 6, 2019.
A poster session deadline (open to all attendees) will be August 15. Read more details in the Call for Participation:
http://sciencegateways.org/gateways2019/call
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PEARC19 now accepting submissions for Student Program, Panels, Special Events
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PEARC19 is now accepting
Student Technical Paper
submissions. Letters of intent for technical papers are due
March 13
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Submissions for
panels
will be accepted through
March 13, 2019.
High-priority deadline for
special events
is
March 6.
Low priority proposals, due June 5, 2019, will be accommodated as time and space allow.
Presentations may address any topic related to advanced research computing, but topics consistent with one or more of the following technical tracks are of particular interest.
Technical Tracks for PEARC19 include:
- Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
- Advanced Research Computing Software and Applications
- Facilitation of Advanced Research Computing
- Workforce Development and Diversity
Other types of submissions, such as posters, BoFs, visualizations, etc. will open approximately one month in advance of their deadlines, which can be found on the PEARC19 Call for Participation page at the link below.
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Early bird registration for AIDR 2019 extended to March 22
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Supported by the NSF scientific data reuse initiative,
AIDR (Artificial Intelligence for Data Discovery and Reuse) 2019, which will be held May 13-15, 2019,
is a conference aiming to find innovative solutions to accelerate the dissemination and reuse of scientific data in the data revolution.
The explosion in the volume of scientific data has made it increasingly challenging to find data scattered across various platforms. At the same time, increasing numbers of new data formats, greater data complexity, a lack of consistent data standards across disciplines, metadata or links between data and publications makes it even more challenging to evaluate data quality, reproduce results, and reuse data for new discoveries. AIDR 2019 provides a platform for AI/ML researchers, data professionals, and scientists to come together and benefit from mutual expertise to address these data challenges and to facilitate the next breakthroughs in science and technology using the power of AI and scientific data.
Early bird registration has been extended until Mar. 22.
AIDR is organized by PSC and the Carnegie Mellon University Libraries and will be hosted at Carnegie Mellon.
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2019 Computing4Change program now accepting applications
Upcoming deadline for nominations is April 8 (no extensions)
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Do you know an undergraduate student who wants not just to enhance their skillset, but also to create positive change in the community?
Computing4Change is a competition for students from diverse disciplines and backgrounds who want to work collaboratively to:
- Learn to apply data analysis and computational thinking to a social challenge
- Experience the latest tools and techniques for exploring data through visualization
- Expand skills in team-based problem solving
- Learn how to communicate ideas more effectively to the general public
The Computing4Change competition will be held at SC19 in Denver, CO, Nov. 16-22, 2019. Applications will be accepted through April 8, 2019.
Learn more and apply here
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Check out our in-depth look at Computing4Change 2018
here
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Early bird registration available until March 4 for SEA Scientific Software Conference and Tutorials 2019
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The 2019 annual SEA (now Improving Scientific Software) conference will take place in Boulder, CO at the
NCAR Center Green Campus
April 8-12. The theme for 2019 will be Improving Scientific Software.
PROGRAM DETAILS
The conference will have the following tracks. See the
program
for more information
- Utilizing modern HPC architectures for Scientific Software
- Utilizing Machine Learning Techniques in Scientific Software
- Utilizing Software Engineering practices to improve Scientific Software
- Utilizing containers and cloud for HPC
IMPORTANT DATES
- 2019, March 4th: Early bird rate ends, standard rate begins
- 2019, March 24th: Standard rate ends, late rate begins
- 2019, April 8th: Conference begins
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Register now for Linux Cluster Institute (LCI) workshops!
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May 13-17, 2019
University of Oklahoma
Norman, OK
Do you have some experience as an HPC system administrator and want to expand your skills? Then this is the workshop for you!
- Strengthen your overall knowledge of HPC system administration
- Focus in depth on file systems and storage, HPC networks, and job schedulers
- Get hands-on training and discuss real-life stories with experienced HPC administrators
- Learn techniques for high performance data transfers using a ScienceDMZ
August 19-23, 2019
Rutgers University Inn & Conference Center
New Brunswick, NJ
If you are a Linux system administrator new to HPC, this is the workshop for you! In just five days you will:
- Learn HPC system administration concepts and technologies and how to apply them
- Get hands-on skills building a small test cluster in lab sessions
- Hear real-life stories and get to ask experts questions in panel discussions
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