Education, Outreach and Training and External Relations

1. Education, Outreach and TrainingandExternal Relations Scott Lathrop Area Director for EOT and ER University of Chicago/Argonne National Laboratory April, 2008

2. EOT/ER Successes • Overall Impact - 7 conferences, 127 workshops, 18 presentations, 22 on-line tutorials, 69 seminars, and 9 course offerings reaching over 7,500 people • Education - K-12 and undergraduate curriculum impact • SC07 Education Program - over 400 educators; 18 events • K-12 Curriculum - BEST, CMIST, CAST, ICLCS, TeacherTECH, etc. • Post-secondary Courses - undergrad and grad at multiple campuses • Leveraging multiple external sources of funding (over $7M over 5 years) • Outreach - raise awareness, engage diverse communities, campus presence • TG’07: 350 participants; 13 tutorials, 40 papers • Building petascale applications workshop • Formation of Campus Champions - multiple campuses signing on • Professional Society Meetings - ACS, AAAS, AGU, NSTA, etc. • Training - offering a range from introductory HPC to petascale techniques • Launched HPC University RAT; implementation underway • Petascale training on Ranger begun in January • Live events and on-line tutorials offered

3. EOT/ER Successes (cont.) • Student Engagement - internships and competitions • Student Competitions - TG07, SC07, WxChallenge • Student Internships, REUs, and Workshops • Graduate Research Fellows Seminars • External Relations - science highlights disseminated • 2007 Science Highlights • Media outlets - iSGTW, HPCwire, etc. • Evaluation of programs • Surveys and interviews • Used to improve programs and assess impact • Collaborations with more than 20 external organizations on a range of EOT efforts • Education Programs • CI Days and Campus Champions outreach with campuses • HPC University • Media outlets (e.g. iSGTW, HPCwire)

4. Sampling of Training Topics Offered • HPC Computing • Introduction to Parallel Computing • Toward Multicore Petascale Applications • Scaling Workshop - Scaling to Petaflops • Effective Use of Multi-core Technology • TeraGrid - Wide BlueGene Applications • Introduction to Using SDSC Systems • Introduction to the Cray XT3 at PSC • Introduction to & Optimization for SDSC Sytems • Parallel Computing on Ranger & Lonestar • Domain-specific Sessions • Petascale Computing in the Biosciences • Workshop on Infectious Disease Informatics at NCSA • Visualization • Introduction to Scientific Visualization • Intermediate Visualization at TACC • Remote/Collaborative TeraScale Visualization on the TeraGrid • Other Topics • NCSA to host workshop on data center design • Rocks Linux Cluster Workshop • LCI International Conference on HPC Clustered Computing • Over 30 on-line asynchronous tutorials

5. Workshop Locations in 2007 2/4 Yr. College Pathways Workshop Research 1 Univ. Education/Training Minority Serving Institution Conference Tutorial (e.g. SC, AAAS, AAPT)

6. TeraGrid Successes • New Science Advisory Board (SAB) launched • Enhancement of Diversity • Multiple workshops help at MSIs • Engagement of under-served faculty and students, and under-served fields of science • Working with MSI-CIEC • Allocations to 29 PIs among 15 MSIs, 53 PIs among 26 EPSCoR institutions • International Collaborations with more than 10 groups

7. Plans (year-round activities) • Education - continue K-12 and undergrad curriculum efforts • SC08 Education Program - summer workshops announced, Nov. planning • K-12 Curriculum - BEST, CMIST, CAST, ICLCS, TeacherTECH, etc. • Post-secondary Courses - undergrad and grad at multiple campuses • Outreach - expand outreach, especially with under-served communities • TG’08: June 9-13, 2008 in Las Vegas • Peta-apps, SDCI and SCiDAC workshops • Expand Campus Champions membership • Professional Society Meeting Outreach • TeraGrid Pathways (EOT Supplement) • Training - expand HPC, petascale and on-line offerings • Expansion of HPC University offerings • Additional petascale training sessions • Learn from petaapps and SDCI projects

8. Plans (cont.) • Student Engagement - expand opportunities • Student Competitions - TG08, SC08, WxChallenge • Student Internships, REUs and Workshops • CIEG program to engage more students and expand into additional disciplines • Graduate Research Fellows seminars and allocations • External Relations - science and EOT highlights • 2008 Science Highlights in time for SC08 • EOT Highlights launched in time for SC08 • EOT newsletter to be launched • Evaluation - cross-RP coordination • Common instruments for cross-RP evaluations • Create database for longitudinal impact studies • Expanded community surveys and interviews and analysis to assess overall impact and how to improve programs

9. Challenges • Broadening Participation in TeraGrid to engage and sustain under-served researchers • Adapting Science Gateways to be appropriate for education communities • Manage growth of programs like Campus Champions, CI Days, SC Education Program, etc. • Scaling-up computational science and HPC resources within K-20 education • Capturing lessons learned in achieving petascale performance for training and broad dissemination • Continuing to address terascale training needs while advancing petascale training

10. Needs • Pursue funding for • Broadening participation - proposal pending • Accelerating HPC University as a cross-domain, cross-agency, cross-institution effort • Seeding EOT’s abilities to raise additional external funding • Identify external collaborations to leverage broader impact • Identify peta-apps and SDCI broader impact efforts • Identify track 3 HPC centers to leverage EOT efforts • Identify new CI-TEAM and BPC projects for leverage • Identify research and education case studies to capture lessons learned for broad dissemination and for scaling-up