1. Education Center on Computational Science and Engineering National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure Reinforcing Infrastructure with eot Reinforcing Infrastructure with the eotPACI Computational Science Resource Community Online Community-Building Kris Stewart, stewart@sdsu.edu Jeff Sale, jsale@edcenter.sdsu.edu Mikhail Burstein, mikhail@edcenter.sdsu.edu http://www.edcenter.sdsu.edu/csrc/ SDSC GSM Dec. 13, 2000

2. Education Center on Computational Science and Engineering National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure SDSC GSM Dec. 13, 2000 Need for Online Community Explosion of online computational science resources of varying quality, purpose, state of development, … Useful to develop online repositories that are scaleable, searchable and dynamic (easy to update and add comments) Faculty and their students need learning on demand assistance

3. Education Center on Computational Science and Engineering National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure SDSC GSM Dec. 13, 2000 Primary Goal Establish an online community to facilitate and encourage sharing and evaluation of computational science resources, usable in instruction.

4. Education Center on Computational Science and Engineering National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure SDSC GSM Dec. 13, 2000 NPACI/CSU Collaboration OCSK California State University National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure National Computational Science Alliance Education, Outreach and Training Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure eot PACI Discipline Communities (peer reviewed) Discipline Communities (peer reviewed) 12 more by the end of 2001 Computational Science Resource Community

5. Education Center on Computational Science and Engineering National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure SDSC GSM Dec. 13, 2000 Resources -- Today’s Digital Laboratory High-performance computing available today to the academic community Develop and Deploy Technology and application collaborations to push the capabilities of tomorrow’s digital laboratory Use and Apply Computational scientists applying enhanced capabilities to achieve new scientific results Disseminate and Incorporate Incorporating technologies into the digital laboratory and disseminating them for use in new communities (NPACI Theme Song) Advancing the Infratructure (NPACI Theme Song)

6. Education Center on Computational Science and Engineering National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure SDSC GSM Dec. 13, 2000 The CSRC Interface Home page Member profile page Browse or Search

7. Education Center on Computational Science and Engineering National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure SDSC GSM Dec. 13, 2000 Based On Two Basic Objects: Members and Artifacts Members may… Artifacts are… Submit Learning Artifacts Authored by themselves Authored by others Submit User Comments Submit Assignments Create a personal and professional profile for others to browse Register online easily to become “Member” Technology learning objects “Smaller” than a complete course Submitted by Members Browsable by anyone

8. Education Center on Computational Science and Engineering National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure SDSC GSM Dec. 13, 2000 CSRC Features and Functions Supports user comments about specific resource Searchable web-based repository of computational science resources with usage characterizations Characterizations include details about the resource as it is used in research or education Enhydra Java servlet interface to an Oracle database engine supports modularized component-based web page creation – part of the CDL design of the On-Line Community Starter Kit (basis of the CSRC)

9. Education Center on Computational Science and Engineering National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure SDSC GSM Dec. 13, 2000 Browse resources from many fields Science & Technology Social Sciences Mathematics Humanities Education Business Arts

10. Education Center on Computational Science and Engineering National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure SDSC GSM Dec. 13, 2000 CSRC Already Includes... workbench.sdsc.edu http://eteach.cs.wisc.edu/ http://www.wcer.wisc.edu/nise/CL1/

11. Education Center on Computational Science and Engineering National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure SDSC GSM Dec. 13, 2000 NPACI Online and SC2000 Debut Kris Stewart, stewart@sdsu.edu Jeff Sale, jsale@edcenter.sdsu.edu Mikhail Burstein, mikhail@edcenter.sdsu.edu Booth demonstrations at SC2000, Dallas TX and current NPACI Online Article www.npaci.edu/online/v4.24/csrc.html We invite your contributions, suggestions, comments. Browse www.edcenter.sdsu.edu/csrc/ Is your favorite project there? If not, please become a community member and contribute a description.