1. TeraGrid’s Efforts towards Broadening Participation Scott Lathrop scott@ncsa.uiuc.edu

2. Breadth of TeraGrid Activities Education Outreach Training External Relations Allocations Advanced User Support Services Science Gateways InCommon/Shibboleth Activities

3. Education Efforts span K-20 –Programs for faculty, teachers, and students SC Education Program engages high school teachers and undergrad faculty nationally –Week-long summer workshops, November conference Numerous local and regional efforts –ICLCS, CMIST, MAST, TeacherTech, many more… Computational Science Education Reference Desk (CSERD) - digital library of curricular materials, lesson plans, exercises, software, etc. Student workforce development paper w/OSG Collaborations with OSG, Shodor, NCSI, Ralph Regula, OSCER, SC Conference, Krell, Blue Waters, etc.

4. Outreach Annual TeraGrid ‘xx Conference Campus Champions - 54 members and growing in collaboration with OSG and Blue Waters Pathways - consulting, mentoring, faculty assistance among under-represented communities Professional Society meetings - ACS, APS, AAPT, AAAS, AGU, EDUCAUSE, Grace Hopper, SACNAS, SC’xx, Tapia, many more… CI Days campus outreach Tours of facilities, seminars, speaker’s bureau HASS users with NEH grant have 3M hours of time on TG systems Society of Women Engineers - student chapters Collaborations with OSG, MSI-CIEC, Internet2, NLR, Blue Waters,etc….

5. An event to bring the campus sectors together to understand CI needs, resources, and plans CI Days are generally hosted by the heads of IT and Research Participation includes a broad collection of faculty and other researchers, research and academic administrators, librarians and IT staff, and students A consortium of national and regional organizations are available to help provide information on holding a CI Days event. They can also provide information on regional and national resources. What are CI Days?

6. The NSF grant will provide support for seven institutions to hold CI Days events over the next 15 months. Those eligible are the 96 universities designated as “Research University / Very High” by the Carnegie Foundation. In addition to enabling participating universities to advance their respective CI initiatives, this grant program seeks to broaden the higher education community’s understanding of CI needs, best practices, and challenges. Ranking of proposals will be performed by an independent committee of representatives from campuses that have already held CI Days events Participating campus will receive: –Up to $10,000 to fund personnel time to coordinate planning and follow-up of the CI Days event. –Up to $5,000 funding for travel to the event for up to five external presenters. –Up to $6,000 for food and beverage for the event. CI Days NSF Grant

7. Current Campus Champions (unclassified) – 26 Current Campus Champions (EPSCoR states) – 17 Current Campus Champions (Minority Serving Institution s)-- 8 Current Campus Champions (both EPSCoR and MSI) – 3 Total Number of Campus Champions Overall -- 54 TeraGrid Campus Champions November 30, 2009

8. Training Live, synchronous and asynchronous training Over 5,000 accesses of on-line tutorials per year HPC University - neutral repository of info Courses are incorporating on-line materials into their curricula (high school, MSI, etc.) Annual survey of community to assess needs and requirements Collaborating with Blue Waters Virtual School Launching HPC competencies effort –Engaging representatives from academia, government and business/industry –Define needs for training and education Collaborations with Ralph Regula, DOE labs, PRACE, DOD Mod program, Blue Waters, etc.

9. External Relations 2009 Science Highlights 16 science impact stories The work of two female PIs highlighted Highlighted work by PIs from five EPSCoR states 2009 Education, Outreach, and Training Highlights 16 EOT stories reflect evidence of broadening participation among diverse communities of practice. Stories focus on how TeraGrid is helping to prepare the next generation of computational scientists.

10. Communication Collateral Several of the 110 press releases and feature stories released in Q1- 3 by TeraGrid External Relations promoted the work of minority and female PI’s as well as work generated by PI’s from EPSCoR states and MSI’s. External Relations increased efforts to disseminate stories among relevant user groups and professional organizations. Dissemination in coordination with media –iSGTW, HPCWire, NSF OLPA, etc. Web presence –Web site –Knowledge base –TeraGrid User Portal –Wiki

11. Allocations Startup projects – nearing 800 in 2009 Education projects – 36 in 2009 Campus Champions have access to all systems to help get users started HASS community has 3 M hours on TG systems (NCSA, NICS) for projects to incorporate HPC –HASS researchers eligible to request Startup projects Success and bringing in Startup requests is stressing the staffing and process for creating Startup projects –We’re working on streamlining the process, identifying additional staff.

12. Advanced User Support Services Providing focused advanced support to users by expert computational scientists; selection is guided by the allocations process Providing consulting and training support to the community Supporting 40-45 ASTA projects in various domain science fields, including about ~7 Startup ASTAs ASTA projects have multiple users involved and impact more than 45 users and in cases like NAMD the code is used by ~100s of users Pursuing 3-4 AUS projects spanning Molecular Dynamics codes, Materials Science codes; analyzing/benchmarking multi-core performance; publish results via TG web site AUS staff teach most of the training classes AUS staff are in contact with or are part of DataNet projects, PlantCI project, three PetaScale workshops, and the annual TeraGrid conferences

13. Science Gateways nanoHub has been an exemplar for engaging new communities LEAD has made good advances Pathways effort with ECSU and Indiana to help students learn how to build gateways We are working to identify capabilities to enhance usage by educators and learners Lots of opportunities for engaging many more communities of practice

14. Science Gateways Gateways serve diverse communities not accustomed to command line HPC, but with significant needs –Social sciences SIDGrid, fundamental to a successful class involving a diverse student base (CS, computational linguistics, social science) –Biology Ultrascan, hydrodynamic study of biological macromolecules and synthetic polymers Robetta, protein structure prediction, over 900 google scholar references –GIS GISolve, many applications including spread of disease

15. Science Gateways Special pathways funding in PY4 to –Look at changes to gateways to increase utility for educators (GEON and TeacherTech) August 2009 workshop involving learning and technology expertise from SRI staff –Involve MSI students in gateway design (PolarGrid and ECSU) Summer internships for ECSU students at IU, ongoing development efforts involving Google gadget interfaces to data and computing

16. InCommon/Shibboleth Activities Goal to better integrate TeraGrid with Campus CI by allowing use of campus authentication to TeraGrid –TeraGrid joined InCommon as a service provider –Established https://go.teragrid.org as Shibboleth portal for TG access via campus logon. Working with CIC (Big 10 schools) Identity management working group on “TeraGrid Pilot” –Focus currently on user support and incident response for federated environments

17. Topics for Discussion What other programs can we best learn from? How to best engage under-represented people? –Women, minorities and people with disabilities –Minority Serving Institutions, 2- and 4- year institutions, EPSCoR –Non-traditional fields of science - humanities, social science, etc. Does it make sense to focus on fewer areas rather than all of the activities? Where and how can we best focus our efforts? –How to scale the Campus Champions? How to ensure Campus Champions in all states? –How to balance breadth versus depth to engage and sustain new communities? –How to best engage and support K-12 community? We’ve engaged 700 new users in the year….What happens as we bring in new users? How and to what extent can/should they be supported? How to best capture lessons learned for XD awardees?