April 18, 2023

XSEDE Training

Dan Stanzione, Training lead

CASC Meeting

TEOS Goals

Training Goals

Training Goals - Specific• Proposal Goals:

– In-person events: 50 per year. – New online content: 10 modules per year

• My expectation: we will exceed this by nearly 2-1 (on pace for 85+ live events this year).

Training - Structurally• Administratively, training resides in the User

Services portion of XSEDE– Insure tight integration with user support activities

• Philosophically, training aligns with TEOS– Coordination with education efforts, e.g. content

tagging and shared banks of materials.

• Practically, most of the labor comes from AUSS – Subject Matter Experts reside there.

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Transition and Roll Out

• More than 20 courses have/will run in the first quarter of the project (two webcasts next week).

• Hundreds of users have received training already (more than 250 in one course.

• More emphasis on online training showing already

• Centralized training calendar in place, registration portal under development

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TEOS Area Leads

• TEOS Overall – Scott Lathrop

• Training - Dan

• Education – Steve Gordon, OSC

• Outreach – Laura McGinnis, PSC

• Campus Bridging – Craig Stewart, Indiana

• E&O Infrastructure – Jim Ferguson, NICS

• Evaluation – Edee Wiziecki, NCSA

TEOS is an Established Collaborative Team• NCSA, NICS, PSC, SDSC, TACC are leaders in TEOS efforts.• The Ralph Regula School (OSC) will lead education efforts.• Shodor will conduct undergraduate education efforts.• UC Berkeley will conduct graduate education efforts• PSC will lead Outreach efforts• SURA will engage MSI faculty and students.• Richard Tapia;’s team (Rice) will engage under-represented

communities• Purdue will lead Campus Champions Program for XSEDE and OSG• Indiana University will coordinate Campus Bridging efforts• NICS will lead TEOS infrastructure efforts• TACC will lead training efforts• Cornell University will provide online training materials.• UIUC I-STEM will be the external evaluator.

TEOS Strategies to Expand National Impact

• Provide a smooth Transition from TeraGrid• Expand scope and scale of content, delivery

method and audience• Institutional incorporation of CS&E curricula to

prepare undergrads, grads and future teachers• Campus bridging for effective use of CI resources• Broaden participation among new and under-

represented communities• Leverage strong partnerships• Conduct On-going Needs Assessment to Improve

Services and Measure Impact

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XSEDE Improvements on TeraGrid

• Training will – offer more quality content to address user needs to expand scope,– delivery more training synchronously and asynchronously to expand scale, and– offer new “Train the Trainers” program to expand scale.

• Education will – offer curriculum development workshops synchronously,– work with institutions to offer CS&E Certificate and Degree Programs, and – immerse students in training, internships, mentoring and recognition programs.

• Outreach will – work with campus staff to bridge between campuses and XSEDE resources,– expand Campus Champions Program to reach more campuses and users,– provide in-depth support to develop research projects among new users and

under-represented communities.

• Campus Bridging will coordinate infrastructure coordination efforts among XSEDE and campuses

• Evaluation will be integrated from the outset

Integrated XSEDE Services

TEOS will directly benefit more than 2,500 people per year through live and synchronous training and education events, and more than 6,000 people through delivery of asynchronous content.

TEOS will reach significantly more people through outreach awareness raising sessions.

Training/Event Portal

• XSEDE Training/event online enrollment form– A central place to allow users to enroll in any

XSEDE training class: Simplify the user experience– Also usable by any other event.– A central place for us to track and report all the

information about attendees for these events.

• Showing UI mockup today, production in October.

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A couple of coming attractions from other areas:

• Outreach: XSEDE Student Interns program– Embed students at the XSEDE sites. – Funded internships for summer or semester.– Recruiting materials by SC11; ask Laura for more

details.

• Education:– Searchable tagged repository of educational

materials.– XSEDE Curriculum program

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XSEDE Event Registration Portal

• Distributed management, role-based access– Any SP can create a new course, customize

registration forms and user communications, retrieve class roll information at any time.

– Training administrators can query across courses for a program wide view.

– Users can see their list of courses

• Link to records about each user.– Link training attended to user profile, allocations,

ticket requests, etc.

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User View – not logged in.

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User/Admin View – logged into XSEDE Portal

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Views of a course once created

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Course views, continued

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