Do you help researchers using IT tools to further their research goals? Are you involved in research computing and/or data science training? Do you consult with researchers on more effectively doing their research with advanced computing resources? Compute with data?
The Researcher-Facing Track of the People Network brings together people from research computing groups, libraries, research institutes, and other organizations who support researchers in every phase of the research lifecycle. Many of us are also Data- & Systems-Facing, but this track is a community-led opportunity to discuss the practices, perspectives, and experiences of facilitation from any perspective.
Topics include:
Research computing facilitation
Outreach to all disciplines, esp. those under-represented, to aid with research computing resources
Education and training
The art and practice of facilitation
Increasing communications, collaborations, and team-building
Research computing UX and user-facing tech
And more, as determined by our members!
We connect via monthly calls and an email list. We also invite you to review and contribute to the Leading Practices of Facilitation!
Join Us! Fill out our membership form to let us know who you are and what you’re interested in. We’ll add you to this email list and other Tracks that you indicate.
Monthly Calls
Monthly calls are on the second Thursday of the month, 1p ET/ 12p CT/ 11a MT/ 10a PT/ 8a HT. Connection information and links to any materials are distributed via the Researcher-Facing email list.
Upcoming Call(s)
Title:Open Capacity for Open Science: The Open Science Pool (OSPool) and OSG Services
Speaker: Christina Koch, Research Computing Facilitator, Center for High Throughput Computing, University of Wisconsin – Madison
Date: March 14th, 2024
Abstract:
The OSG Consortium builds and operates a set of pools of shared computing and data capacity for distributed high-throughput computing (dHTC). The flagship effort, the Open Science Pool (OSPool), connects about 4 dozen institutions in any given month, benefits 90 universities and labs every year, and executes about a million jobs per day. The OSPool is accessible to any US-based academic researcher and is accompanied by additional OSG Services, including the support of a Research Computing Facilitation team. Join this call to learn about the computing capacity of the OSPool, potential ways to partner with OSG Services, and lessons learned from the facilitation team.
Also, please take a moment to vote on these potential R-F call topics! Thanks for your input.