Seminar: Training the Next Generation of Research Computing System Administrators in the Rocky Mountain Advanced Computing Consortium
2:00 – 3:00 pm MST
Abstract
In this talk, we will share the recent activities and success of CU Boulder Research Computing (CURC). Highlights include contributions to national projects such as ACCESS and NAIRR, collaborations across the Rocky Mountain Advanced Computing Consortium (RMACC) to promote innovation and inclusion, and the beginning of year four of CURC’s five-year strategic plan.
We will then spotlight a two-year project educating cohorts of students drawn from institutional members of RMACC. In this NSF-funded effort, a small group of students shadow CURC system administrators to develop skills in administering large-scale campus computational systems to support innovative research. The students work closely with the team and under the tutelage of experienced system administrators. They learn how to navigate the design, procurement, deployment, and administration of the system. The program culminates in an on-site experience in which students deploy and perform initial administration with new hardware. Student efforts have contributed to expanding the capacity of CU Boulder’s Alpine high-performance computing cluster, a regional resource for RMACC.
*Staff can find the event information on the Staff-Only events calendar.
External attendees can contact Taysia Peterson for an invitation.
Name
Shelley Knuth
Shelley is the Assistant Vice Chancellor for Research Computing at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her team is operating a supercomputer, a research data storage service, a secure research enclave, a condo cluster, infrastructure support for courses, and a friction free network for large data transfers. She is also one of two executive directors of the Center for Research Data and Digital Scholarship (CRDDS), and chairs the Rocky Mountain Advanced Computing Consortium (RMACC) which collaborates throughout the Rocky Mountain Region on cyberinfrastructure projects.
Shelley is the lead PI for the NSF funded ACCESS Support project, and serves as PI on several other NSF funded projects as well. Additionally, she leads the User Experience Working Group for the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) pilot project, is a member of the RMACC Women in High Performance Computing Chapter, and holds a faculty appointment at CU.
She earned her PhD in Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences in 2014.
Name
Craig Earley
Craig is the Associate Director of High-Performance Computing Technology at the University of Colorado Boulder Research Computing. His focus is on delivering, maintaining, and scaling on-premise computational resources to advance innovative research. He supervises a team of system administrators operating the Alpine supercomputer, the Blanca condo cluster, the PetaLibrary research data storage service, large-scale data transfer utilities, and the related core user services.