Program Announcements
XSEDE response to COVID-19
Thank you all for your continued efforts to keep XSEDE operating normally during the COVID-19 pandemic. XSEDE leadership has been working to pull together status updates from all XSEDE subaward partner institutions and allocated resources/services as well as contingency plans from managers of all WBS areas across the project. This information as well as other announcements related to impacts in XSEDE services resulting from the COVID-19 outbreak are being gathered and reported at https://confluence.xsede.org/display/XT/COVID-19+Information .
Distance learning resources in the time of COVID-19
Please check out these helpful resources including tutorials and assistance for bringing courses online.

Online training materials available on the XSEDE User Portal. 

XSEDE Training YouTube Channel
  • If you are not able to attend the HPC Monthly Workshop series in person, the lectures, organized by workshop, are available on the XSEDE Training YouTube channel.

Consulting Support
  • XSEDE Education staff can provide consulting for transitioning courses to remote and online delivery. Email kcahill@osc.edu if you have questions about resources or would like to schedule a consultation.

The HPC University
  • The HPC University (HPCU) is a virtual organization that provides a cohesive, persistent, and sustainable on-line environment to share educational and training materials for a continuum of high performance computing environments.
  • Resources 
  • Workshop/Training Materials

Computational Science/Physics Curriculum
  • For a full year course in Computational Science/Physics, Rubin Landau from Oregon State shares video lecture modules, lecture slides, and quizzes here and additional resources here.
April 1 deadline for Advanced Computing for Social Change (ACSC)
Help spread the word that undergraduates from all majors/disciplines are encouraged to apply for Advanced Computing for Social Change (ACSC), an all-expenses paid opportunity to learn data analytics and computational thinking skills to address social change. This week-long data science challenge is co-located with the Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing Conference (PEARC20), held July 25-30, 2020 in Portland, Oregon. Apply by April 1, 2020!

Computing4Change now accepting applications
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 SC20 in Atlanta, GA, Nov. 14-20, 2020.  Applications will be accepted through May 18, 2020 .  Learn more and apply here .
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Community Announcements
Priority help to COVID-19 projects offered by Trusted CI, NSF CI CoE Pilot, and SGCI
The   NSF Cyberinfrastructure Center of Excellence Pilot ,  Trusted CI , and the   Science Gateways Community Institute   are all available to help the science community tackle research to address the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak. If your project could benefit from expert cyberinfrastructure consulting in:
  • data management and visualization
  • workflow management
  • use of cloud resources, high-performance clusters, or distributed resources
  • science gateway technology
  • cybersecurity
  • compliance
please contact   covid19@trustedci.org for priority assistance.