Inside XSEDE: May 2020

Program Announcements

2020 XSEDE Staff Climate Study now complete

Thank you to everyone who responded and encouraged others to respond to this year’s Staff Climate Study. Thanks to your efforts and commitment we’ve reached a 68% response rate, our highest ever since starting the study in 2013. At this crucial time, it’s so important that we take your feedback and experience into consideration when making decisions for subsequent project years. Preliminary results will be shared in June at the NSF review followed by a detailed presentation at the September quarterly and finally a full report in early 2021. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to reach out to anyone from the external evaluation team: Lizanne DeStefano, Tonya Miles, Lorna Rivera, or Julie Wernert.

XSEDE EMPOWER now accepting applications for fall internships and mentorships

XSEDE EMPOWER (Expert Mentoring Producing Opportunities for Work, Education, and Research) provides undergraduate students with the opportunity to work on a variety of XSEDE projects, such as computational and/or data analytics research and education in all fields of study, networking, system maintenance and support, visualization, and more. Mentors help engage undergrads in the work of XSEDE. The EMPOWER program aims to enable a diverse group of students to participate in the actual work of XSEDE. To apply to mentor one or more students, create one or more positions by following the link below. If you also have a student in mind to work with, that student should also submit an application. The deadline for mentors and students to apply for Fall 2020 participation is July 10, 2020.

Check out this video to learn more about XSEDE EMPOWER and what two recent interns have to say about the program.

Computing4Change application deadline extended

For undergraduate students who want to enhance their skillset and create positive change in their community, XSEDE is accepting applications for Computing4Change (C4C). C4C 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. Currently it is planned to be co-located at SC20 in Atlanta, GA from November 14-20, 2020 (but may become virtual.) The deadline to apply has been extended until July 19, 2020 .

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Community Announcements

Ready to parallelize your software? Register today to attend the Computational Research Techniques: Applied Parallel Programming workshop, part of the TACC Institute Series to be held July 7-10, 2020. With TACC's high performance computing experts, learn to write parallel applications using OpenMP and MPI, profiling and optimizing sequential and parallel applications, debugging parallel software, developing software for many-core architectures, and more. Gain practical experience developing parallel applications with guided hands-on exercises, spend time with TACC experts one-on-one talking about your own research project goals and roadblocks, and hear from TACC staff, users, and collaborators about the latest trends, technologies, and research projects related to large-scale parallel computation.

Jumpstart your sustainability plan with SGCI's free virtual mini-course

Interested in developing a sustainability strategy for your gateway? Register by June 12, 2020 for the Science Gateway Community Institute's Jumpstart Your Sustainability Plan mini-course! It’s free, and offered virtually. This course will take place June 16-18, 2020, with main presentations from 12-1:30 pm ET each day, and optional office hours and special topics presentations from 2-5 pm ET.

Given that COVID-19 has, for now, limited the ability to travel and gather in person, SGCI is making the best of the situation and offering this free new mini-course instead of Gateway Focus Week, one of SGCI’s most popular programs. Jumpstart Your Sustainability Plan will focus solely on offering practical and effective steps for developing a sustainability strategy. The mini-course offers PIs of research and teaching-focused gateways and their teams the perfect way to kick off sustainability planning, whether you are writing a new grant or ready to get to the next level with a more mature project.