XSEDE
XSEDE: Foundation for the National Cyberinfrastrucure (CI) Ecosystem (2011 – 2022)
The Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) is an NSF-funded (Grant #1548562) virtual organization that integrates and coordinates the sharing of advanced digital services – including supercomputers and high-end visualization and data analysis resources – with researchers nationally to support science. SURA is funded to lead a suite of workforce development program that include broadening Participation, education, training, and student programs. The workforce development programs are designed to raise the general awareness of the value of advanced computing, extend use to new communities, and contribute to the preparation of the current and next generation of scholars, researchers, and engineers. The rigorously evaluated education and training workshops include such innovations such as the Advanced Computing for Social Change curriculum, updated training delivery modalities, blended learning, virtual student internships, and tailored institutional partnerships. For more on XSEDE’s Community Engagement and Enrichment programs visit www.xsede.org.
Staff:
- Sue Fratkin- Advanced Computing for Social Change Public Policy Fellow
- Jaye Nias- Advanced Computing for Social Change Data Science Fellow
Education and Training:
- Advanced Computing for Social Change Curriculum Development Workshops
- Advanced Computing for Social Change Modules-in-a-Box
- Training Workshops: XSEDE New User, Python, R, Intro to Linux Unix, Intro to Parallel Programming Using OpenMP and MPI, and Intro to Data Visualization, Computational Tools for Biology
Student Programs
- Advanced Computing for Social Change @PEARC
- Computing4Change @SC
- HPC Hack @PEARC
- HPC in the City Hackathon @SC
- EMPOWER Internship Program
Presentations and Publications:
- Akli, S. Bapna, P. Bhattacharya, A. Emdad, S. Hargett, C. Hughes Darden, R. Ellington, A. Nkwanta, J. Zaveri, Chapter 14 – “Interventions Addressing Recruitment and Retention of Underrepresented Minority Groups in Undergraduate STEM Disciplines”, Culturally Responsive Strategies for Reforming STEM Higher Education: Turning the TIDES on Inequity, January 19, 2019, DOI: 10.1108/978-1-78743-405-920191008.
- Akli, “XSEDE: Tackling Diversity and Inclusion in Advanced Computing”, IEEE Computing in Science & Engineering, vol. 20, no. 03, pp. 71-72, 2018, DOI: 10.1109/MCSE.2018.03202635.
- Akli, M. Bland, L. DeStefano, S. Fratkin, K. Gaither, R. Gomez, R. Mendenhall, L. Rivera. “Advanced Computing for Social Change: Educating and Engaging Our Students to Compete in a Changing Workforce”, Proceedings of the Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing 2017 on Sustainability, Success and Impact, 2017, DOI:
- Akli, M. Madrid, J. Alameda, L. Rivers, S. Gordon, “XSEDE Training: Achieving Access and Inclusion”, Proceeding of the XSEDE16 Conference on Diversity, Big Data, and Science at Scale, 2016, DOI:
- Akli, S. Moore, L. Rivera, P. Teller, “Training, education, and outreach—raising the bar”, Journal of Concurrency and Computation: Special Issue on XSEDE13, vol. 26, issue 13, 2014, DOI: