TeraGrid External Relations Working Group Report to the TeraGrid Forum, May 6, 2010 Elizabeth Leake, ER Working Group Coordinator

External Relations Working Group Activities Since August 2009 Produced 2009 Science Highlights in time for Supercomputing’09 and began planning for 2010 (and 2011 books) Assist with production of EOT Highlights books New Slide Deck for all to use— on wiki under “Speakers Bureau” Improved Communication Strategies Conference planning—TG’XX and SC’XX OSG/TG Collaboration Activities TeraGrid in the news Assist with web and wiki updates in ’10 –CMS training soon…

Science and EOT Highlights Led by Warren Froelich, SDSC 2009 & 2010 Completed production of 2009 Science Highlights in time for Supercomputing ‘09 conference Assist with the production of EOT Highlights book March 2010 began searching for stories for 2010 Science Selection criteria: »Transformative research »Resources from Multiple Resource Provider sites. »Typically under-represented individuals or fields— emerging applications or new use of technology. »Could not have been accomplished without TeraGrid. »Projects with successful broader impact outcomes. »Collaboration with other grids, international partners, business, or industry.

We need more stories for 2010 & 2011! Currently have 24 amazing prospects for 2010, need more!!! –We typically develop about 20 Science and 20 EOT Highlights

Improved ER Strategies TRAC mining for prospective stories—Letter to TRAC (Katz & Leake) What’s Your Story? Business card folder “AJAX” FTP Site for NSF/OLPA TG-Insiders (TRAC & others) –American Astronomical Society Boisseau, Moore –American Chemical Society –American Physical Society, Schneider, + –Center for Analysis and Prediction of Storms (CAPS)—Loftis –EPCC Edinburgh –Materials Research Society –TMS—Metals, Materials, and Minerals Society

Conference Planning SC’09 Conference booth planning TG’10 Conference planning/communication committee SC’10 Conference planning –Print collateral for all conferences (dozens attended by EOT)

TeraGrid in the news/ Feature Stories and Press Releases 330 TeraGrid-related events (Google Alerts)

International Science Grid This Week (OSG/TG Collaboration) Why? Not influenced by vendors—totally impartial. Growing readership. Tell our story. Explore ways to provide targeted delivery of information to stakeholders. SAB recommends TG journal, next best thing 2009 TG/OSG statement of joint principles & pending ExTENSI proposal— 2009 OSG/TG letter of support—iSGTW collaboration Current iSGTW funding source (US) ends in 2011— seek funding from NSF/others Mutual Goal… Promote global communication within and among communities of interest across geo- and cyber- political boundaries. Current readership in every continent, offers an established venue in which to inform the global cyberinfrastructure (CI) community of technological advances, transformative science, professional and workforce development opportunities, new uses of technology in previously underrepresented fields of research, and creative ways to fund and sustain local CI that will augment broader CI initiatives.

EGEE’s Guest at 5 th User Conference Uppsala, Sweden GridTalk Blog Opinion Feature—Storage, April 28 Gateways Story, May 15 International Collaborations Story, June Transition from EGEE to EGI end of April 2010 Enabling Grids for E-Science

For More Information What would you do? I made more connections, generated story ideas!!! Ash- bound in Sweden 5 more days!!

Questions?