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

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 – Campus Champions - U Kentucky signed, 12 in process, 10 recommended – Professional Society Meetings - ACS, AAAS, AGU, NSTA, etc. – SC07 Education Program - of 117 participants, 44 were from MSIs, 40 were from EPSCoR institutions (incl. Puerto Rico, Santo Domingo and Costa Rica) 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

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 – formative and summative – 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) EOT/ER Successes (cont.)

HPC University: 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

HPC University: On-Line Access Goal is to reach significantly larger audiences Through just-in-time training To reach people that can’t attend live sessions Synchronous sessions Launching quarterly new user training sessions Planning science/technology seminar series Planning on-line education seminar series CI-Tutor launched to expand access to tutorials 4,570 accesses to the CI-Tutor tutorials in 2007 Over 30 on-line asynchronous tutorials now available Examples of new content in development Introductory Multi-core Performance Issues Getting Started Using TG Resources Porting code to the TeraGrid Audience: MSIs, new TeraGrid users Petascale applications development

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

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

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 Plans (cont.)

Outreach Locations in 2008 Workshop Conference Costa Rica Puerto Rico

Challenges Broadening Participation in TeraGrid to engage and sustain more under-served researchers, educators and students Adapting Science Gateways 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

Needs Significantly expand resources to address community needs – Broadening participation among under-served communities – Accelerating HPC University – Raising additional external funding to leverage NSF’s investments – Develop more cross-domain, cross-agency, cross-institution collaborations Augment external collaborations to leverage broader impact – Identify peta-apps and SDCI broader impact efforts – Identify track 3 HPC centers to leverage EOT efforts – Identify CI-TEAM, BPC, and other projects for leverage Recommendations of research and education projects to capture lessons learned in case studies for dissemination and scaling-up

EOT and ER Working Group Members EOT Working Group – Argonne/U Chicago - Scott Lathrop, Carolyn Peters – Indiana - Daphne Siefert-Herron – NCAR - Marijke Unger – NICS - Jim Ferguson, Julia White – NCSA - Edee Norman Wiziecki, Sandie Kappes – ORNL - John Cobb, Jim Rome – PSC - Laura McGinnis, Cheryl Begandy, Pallavi Ishwad – Purdue - Kay Hunt – SDSC - Diane Baxter, Jeff Sale, Ange Mason – TACC - Brad Armosky ER Working Group – Argonne/U Chicago - Scott Lathrop, Carolyn Peters, Joe Insley – Indiana - Daphne Siefert-Herron – NCAR - Marijke Unger – NICS - Jim Ferguson, Julia White – NCSA - Bill Bell, Trish Barker – ORNL - John Cobb – PSC - Michael Schneider, Shandra Williams – Purdue - Kay Hunt – SDSC - Warren Froelich – TACC - Faith Singer-Villalobos

Broader Impacts Advance discovery | Reinforce teaching and learning Integrate HPC+STEM research activities into grades 6-12 and higher education teaching & learning. 20+ EOT partnerships to: Utilize user-friendly TeraGrid & HPC tools: Science Gateways Show and guide (hands-on) teachers & faculty to integrate via education community conferences (NSTA, EDUCAUSE, ISTE, etc.). Justify integrating TeraGrid & HPC enhanced research: national science, mathematics, and technology standards Involve students in research activities. Foster effective student apprenticeship to engage students’ STEM interests and apply HPC: internships, REUs, competitions, awards & recognition, committees, staff positions; Grace Hopper, Tapia, SACNAS K-12 teacher, administrators, & leaders involvement Strategically leverage methods in the education community: workshops, conferences, professional awards & recognition, and committees. Research-based educational materials Show and guide (hands-on) teachers & faculty through CSERD/NSDL’s powerful utilities. Give incentive: highlight related national science, mathematics, and technology standards.

Broader Impacts Advance discovery | Reinforce teaching and learning Involve students in research activities. Foster effective student apprenticeship to engage students’ STEM interests and apply HPC: internships, REUs, competitions, awards & recognition, committees, staff positions; Grace Hopper, Tapia, SACNAS K-12 teacher, administrators, & leaders involvement Strategically leverage methods in the education community: workshops, conferences, professional awards & recognition, and committees. NSTA 2008 Conference

Broader Impacts Advance discovery | Reinforce teaching and learning Research-based educational materials Show and guide (hands-on) teachers & faculty through CSERD/NSDL’s powerful utilities. Give incentive: highlight related national science, mathematics, and technology standards. Establish mentoring programs EOT Supplement Involve grad and post-docs in undergrad teaching SC workshops involve student instructors

Establish collaborations with under-represented groups: MSI-CIEC, hosting workshops, driving workshop content Include under-represented groups in research and education activities: TG08, SC, workshops, proposals Establish students/faculty collaborations from non-PhD and MSIs: CI Days, Campus Champions, workshops, allocations, EOT Supplement Visit campuses among under-served groups: CI Days, SC workshops, outreach, Campus Champions Collaborate with community colleges, colleges for women, undergrad institutions, and EPSCoR: SC workshops, CI Days, Campus Champions Mentor early career scientists from under-represented groups: EOT supplement Develop new approaches to engage under-served individuals: EOT supplement, fellowships, mentoring Participate in events where diversity is a priority: Tapia, SACNAS, Grace Hopper Broader Impacts Broaden participation of under-served groups

Establish collaborations: Over 20 national partnerships and 10 international partnerships Develop and disseminate next generation research and education platforms: Science Gateways CSERD/NSDL Computational Science curriculum of lesson plans, activities, and resources. Leverage R&E infrastructure and facilities: All RPs, CI Days, Campus Champions, CI-Tutor Upgrade infrastructure: All RPs, MSI-CIEC Leverage multi-user facilities: All RPs Broader Impacts Enhance infrastructure for research and education

Partner with informal learning centers (museums, science centers, etc.) Planetariums (Adler, Hayden), Denver Science Center, Exploratorium Involve public and industry Seminars, media, industrial partnerships Presentations to broader community Face-to-face: Seminars, RPs host visitors/tours Media: press releases, science stories World Wide Web: Webcasts, visualization movies Make data available Over 100 data collections Publish in diverse media for broad audiences Web site, Scientist perspective video, iSGTW, HPCwire, GridToday, SC, etc. Present information useful to policy makers TeraGrid futures position papers, numerous reports and publications Participate in conferences, professional society conferences, etc. TG’xx, SC’xx, ACS, AGU, APS, AAU, MPS, AAAS, NSTA, SITE, etc. Integrate research with education to communicate in broader context Outreach to schools, colleges, universities Broader Impacts Broad dissemination of results

Broader Impacts Benefits to society Demonstrate relationships between TeraGrid & HPC enhanced discovery, society, and the individual Science Highlights, press releases, science stories, visualization movies Collaborate nationally to integrate research into broader programs of national interest over 20 national collaborations Clarify R&E results for non-scientists Science Highlights, press releases, science stories, visualization movies Provide information for policy formulation TeraGrid Futures position papers, reports, publications