The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis
The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis
Authors: Ashok Srinivasan (National Science Foundation (NSF)), Juan Li (National Science Foundation (NSF)), Tom Gulbransen (National Science Foundation), Sharmistha Bagchi-Sen (National Science Foundation (NSF))
Abstract: The National Science Foundation's Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC) supports the development and provisioning of state-of-the-art cyberinfrastructure resources, including HPC systems, tools, and services essential to the advancement of science and engineering. A critical vision and investment plan of OAC is to support inclusive and sustainable workforce development that will lead to transformative research leveraging such cyberinfrastructure. We seek to engage with the community and institutions to obtain feedback on preparing a workforce to address the evolving needs of research communities, including facilitating the invention and usage of CI, promoting democratized access, and fostering sustainable CI ecosystems.
Long Description: The National Science Foundation's Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC) supports the development and provisioning of state-of-the-art cyberinfrastructure resources, including HPC systems, tools, services, and community development essential to the advancement of science and engineering. A critical vision and investment plan of OAC is to support inclusive and sustainable workforce development that will lead to transformative research leveraging such cyberinfrastructure. A portfolio of OAC programs supports the advancement of the cyberinfrastructure community. These programs evolve based on the discovery of stakeholders’ needs.
Within the context of continued technological disruption in terms of new systems and the expanding scale of data from various domains, OAC supports the development of an agile workforce ready to collaborate with science and engineering stakeholders across academia, government, industry, and other communities. We seek to engage with the community to obtain feedback on OAC’s programs for preparing a workforce to address the evolving needs of research communities, including facilitating the invention and usage of CI, promoting democratized access, and fostering sustainable CI ecosystems.
Discussions will cover the following.
• Training needs, that is, the range of skills that will be critical to the scientific research community regarding cyberinfrastructure innovation, design, creation, maintenance, and usage.
• Workforce development needs given the emerging importance of AI on Cyberinfrastructure, Cyberinfrastructure for AI, and their integration (CI+AI) to support scientific research.
• Broadening participation in the research CI ecosystem at all levels, as informed by the Missing Millions report (Blatecky, et.al. 2021, NSF OAC 2127459) and community feedback.
• Recognition and institutionalization of Cyberinfrastructure Professionals’ services, a group dedicated to connecting with researchers to fulfill science or engineering investigation needs, as well as to matching up with trainees for mentorships.
• The need for supporting Research Coordination Networks, and other Learning and Workforce Development activities dedicated to inviting and empowering new participants and career paths.
The goal of this BoF session is to solicit feedback from the SC23 community that will inform further advances in OAC’s programs or the creation of new programs. We welcome existing PIs, future PIs, and others interested in national CI advancement to attend and provide valuable feedback to OAC’s learning and workforce development (LWD) program directors. A group of OAC program directors leading the LWD programs will attend the BoF session to collect feedback and catalog the outcomes of the session. The outcome of this BoF session will be the collection of community input to OAC’s LWD programs on advancing the nation’s research workforce development in Cyberinfrastructure. In addition, the HPC community will have an opportunity to understand OAC’s LWD program portfolio and interact directly with program directors.
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