Program Announcements
XSEDE Recognized in 2021 HPCwire Editors' Choice Awards

XSEDE was recently recognized in the annual HPCwire Readers' and Editors' Choice Awards, presented at SC21.

XSEDE's Expert Mentoring Producing Opportunities for Work, Education and Research (EMPOWER) program, led by Shodor Education, was recognized for Workforce Diversity & Inclusion Leadership Award.
The program recruited and enabled a diverse group of more than 200 student apprentices and interns who have contributed to XSEDE's computationally enabled research at U.S. universities and national laboratories.

Additionally, XSEDE was honored for Best Use of HPC in Response to Societal Plights (Urgent Computing, COVID-19). Using Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center's Bridges and Bridges2 systems, allocated through XSEDE, and working for the Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority, a team of government, industry and academic scientists created simulations of storm effects on the state's coast that will underlie Louisiana's 2023 Coastal Master Plan.

XSEDE Cyberinfrastructure Integration (XCI) Updates
Service providers often encounter hardware, software, digital service, or user application problems that others might have encountered in the past. Online moderated discussion forums are a useful tool for exploring known solutions to similar problems. When a solution isn't already discussed, moderated forums are also useful for sharing, discussing, and identifying solutions using the community. Different discussion forums may target different segments of the global research computing community.

For XSEDE specific problems, XSEDE offers these moderated forums:
For general research cyberinfrastructure problems, XSEDE recommends using:
These resources complement the XSEDE helpdesk <help@xsede.org> where service providers can request assistance with XSEDE provided or supported software and services.
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Community Announcements
PEARC22: Open for Submissions and Call for Reviewers
The PEARC22 Technical Program Committee invites XSEDE staff to submit content to the PEARC22 technical program. Our first submission deadline is for Tutorials and Workshop on January 21, 2022. The Full Paper deadline has also been moved up to February 18 to allow for any full paper that is declined for acceptance to be resubmitted as a short paper on April 8 (two weeks in between). Please see our Call For Proposals for more information. All content due dates are included below.  
 
We are also in need of volunteers to review submissions of all types. To sign up, please go to https://tiny.cc/pearc22-reviewer-signup. Note, this year we will be requiring reviewers to participate in a virtual ~3 hour session to help track chairs finalize paper decisions more efficiently. 
 
We look forward to seeing you next summer in person! Please reach out to us at pearc22@easychair.org if you have any questions.
Participate in CaRCC's Careers in Research Computing Survey
We need your input to help build a model of Career Arcs for Research Computing and Data (RCD) Professionals. The resulting resource will help all of us to think about our career trajectories and professional development options, and will help teams recruit and retain people for RCD roles. 
 
Please complete this short survey created by the Career Arcs working group at CaRCC to help us understand the career paths of existing RCD professionals, and in particular the key factors that influence decisions to change positions, pursue new opportunities, and grow as professionals. The survey should take approximately 10-15 minutes to complete and no personally identifiable data are collected!
 
We will generate a report on the Career Arcs survey data and what we learn from it, and use that knowledge to build resources for the community that will help address our shared challenges. These will be shared with the community (watch for them on the working group page).
 
In addition to the survey, we are interested in chatting with RCD professionals further in face-to-face interviews to understand RCD career trajectories more deeply. If you are interested in participating in such an interview, please email us at career-arcs-participate@carcc.org.
Graduate Student Fellowship Opportunity at TACC
TACC is pleased to announce the Frontera Computational Science Fellowship program, a unique opportunity for graduate students to perform cutting-edge computations on the most powerful supercomputer available to academic researchers in the world. The deadline for application is February 18, 2022.