Campus Champions 101

August 27, 2013

Campus Champions 101

Dirk Colbry – Michigan State Universitycolbrydi@msu.edu

Link to slides: http://tinyurl.com/mdjccbf

Call Logistics

• Slides:– Direct Link: http://tinyurl.com/mdjccbf

• Ask/answer questions in the chat window• Links available in the chat window• Feel free to skip ahead or go back:

– Direct Link: http://tinyurl.com/brwfpyw

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If you get board

• Sign up for a portal Accounthttp://tinyurl.com/btq2yxa

• Request access to Champion internal wikihttp://tinyurl.com/buhnc99

• Fill out your portal profileClick your name in the upper left corner of XUP

http://tinyurl.com/crmdje4 • Apply for your allocation

http://portal.xsede.org/web/campus-champions/ccalloc

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Agenda

• Who am I?• What is XSEDE?• The Campus Champions Program• How do I get started?• Closing thoughts

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I am an engineer

• Mechanical Engineering degree from Georgia Tech

• 3 years as a Mechanical Engineer for Delta Airlines in Atlanta

• 2 years as a Robotics Engineer for FANUC Robotics in Auburn Hills

I am a researcher

• Ph.D. in CSE from MSU, focusing on image processing and pattern recognition

• Research Areas:– optimizing image analysis workfows for

researchers

• Currently collaborating with researchers in Physics, Engineering, Biology, Math and Statistics

I am a computational consultant

• Institute for Cyber Enabled Research– One-on-one consulting – HPC Programming– Proposal Writing– Training and Education – Outreach

– Reduce the “Mean time to Science”

I am a Campus Champion Champion

• Teach these classes• Campus Champion

Student Program• New Champion welcome

wagon• Help champions solve

problems• Anything else Kay asks me

to do

Agenda

• Who am I?• What is XSEDE?• The Campus Champions Program• How do I get started?• Closing thoughts

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What is XSEDE?

• Formerly TeraGrid• Funded by the National Science Foundation

“XSEDE is a single virtual system that scientsts can use to interactvely share computng resources, data and expertse. People around the world use these resources and services — things like supercomputers, collectons of data and new tools — to improve our planet.”

Large scale XSEDE Computing Resources

Campus Champions: These and other outreach slides are available on the campus Champion Wiki: http://tinyurl.com/ctnlvfc

Who Uses XSEDE?

• >2 billion cpu-hours allocated

• 1400 allocations• 350 institutions• 32 research

domains

Fun Site:https://xdmod.ccr.buffalo.edu

XSEDE is more than just hardware

• Common interface (XUP)• Training Opportunities

– https://portal.xsede.org/overview

• Extended Collaborative Support Services (ECSS)• Novel and Innovative Projects (NIP)• Outreach • Campus Bridging• Student Engagement• Campus Champions!

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Agenda

• Who am I?• What is XSEDE?• The Campus Champions Program• How do I get started?• Closing thoughts

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Campus Champions should…

• Outreach to researchers on campuses to increase awareness of Cyber-Infrastructure (CI) resources and services.

• Assist users in efectively using CI resources and services.

• Be front line advocates for researchers and provide feedback to improve CI resources and services.

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The CC program will provide you with…

• The knowledge to train and support your users on CI resources and services.

• Software tools, advice and support that you, in turn, can use to assist your users to access and use XSEDE resources.

• Resources to help your users quickly get started using XSEDE.

• Contacts within XSEDE to help your users overcome barriers or problems they encounter using XSEDE facilities.

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Who are Campus Champions?

• Faculty• Administration • System Administrators• Research Staf• Students• …• All (most) Are Volunteers

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The program is growing

• Student Champions• Domain Champions• Regional Champions

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More than just XSEDE

• Local Resources• Science Gateways• Extended Support• Open Science Grid• FutureGrid• Blue Waters (NCSA)• Titan (ORNL/NICS)• ALCF (Argonne)• Hopper (NERSC)

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Campus Champions Staff• Kay Hunt <kay@purdue.edu>– Campus Champions Project Coordinator• Phil Blood <blood@psc.edu>– Campus Champions Tech Staf– ECSS Novel and Innovative Projects Staf• Dirk Colbry <colbrydi@msu.edu>– Welcome Wagon for New Champions – Leader of Student Campus Champions– Champions Training Coordinator• Kim Dillman <kadillma@purdue.edu>– Campus Champions Tech Staf

• More coming soon…

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Campus Champions Leadership Team• Jef Pummill – University of Arkansas

– jpummill@uark.edu• Tim Stitt - University of Notre Dame

– Timothy.stitt.9@nd.edu • Jef Gardner – University of Washington

– jefpg@uw.edu• Barr von Oehsen – Clemson University

– joehsen@exchange.clemson.edu• Dana Brunson – Oklahoma State University

– dana.brunson@okstate.edu • Rachel Vincent-Finley – Southern University at Baton Rouge

– rachel_finley@subr.edu

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Agenda

• Who am I?• What is XSEDE?• The Campus Champions Program• How do I get started?• Closing thoughts

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Getting Started

• Get Access• Become familiar with the program• Find users• Help them

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Get Access (Start Here)

1. Get an XSEDE Portal Account (XUP): – http://tinyurl.com/btq2yxa

1. Sign up for the Campus Champion Wiki:– http://tinyurl.com/buhnc99

1. Apply for your Campus Champion’s allocation:

– http://www.xsede.org/web/campus-champions/ccalloc

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Getting Started

• Get Access• Become familiar with the program• Find users• Help them

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Becoming Familiar with the Program

1. Attend Champions 101 Talk 2. Read the webpage for new Champions:

http://www.xsede.org/web/campus-champions/for-new-champions 3. Attend the monthly Campus Champions phone calls: 3pm (EST) on the

third Tuesday of each month4. Read though the Campus Champion Survival Kit (found on the Campus

Champion Wiki): http://tinyurl.com/lxjnkwl 5. Read the “What is XSEDE” and “Science and Education Highlights”

brochures: http://www.xsede.org/publication

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Campus Champion Calendar

• List of special champion related activities:– http://tinyurl.com/cduzty8

• Monthly Campus Champion Meeting• Special Working group meetings

– Best Practices on Outreach– Best Practices on Assisting Users– Student Champions– Regional Champions

• XSEDE User Services teleconferences• NIP Calls

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Other Champion Specific –Training Resources• Champion Specific Tutorials:

– http://www.xsede.org/web/campus-champions/ccintrotutorial

• Champions “Open” Wiki section (open to the general public) on “Useful Training”:– https://portal.xsede.org/web/campus-champions/open-wiki

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General XSEDE Training Resources

• Calendar Listing all XSEDE Training:– https://www.xsede.org/web/xup/course-calendar

• Self-paced training topics can be found here:– https://www.xsede.org/web/xup/online-training

• My Recommendations– “New User Training” (ofered Every quarter)

• Slides from a previous presntation: http://tinyurl.com/ca4k3n7

– “How to Write a Good XRAC Allocation Proposal”• Slides from a previous presntation: http://tinyurl.com/cvwawxq

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Our best resource…each other

• Get to know the other champions– Participate in discussions on mailing list– Participate in monthly phone calls– Join Champion working groups– Contribute to the wiki– Attend XSEDE conferences

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Getting to know each other

• List of campus champions:https://www.xsede.org/current-champions

• Internal Campus Champion Directory in wiki:Direct Link: http://tinyurl.com/crmdje4

• Fill out your portal profile and include a picture!!

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Getting to know each other

• When visiting other campuses, look up their champion and set up a meeting.

• Get notified via email if there is any activity on the Campus Champion forum.

• Log on to XSEDE IRC channel– #XSEDE@freesurfer.net

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Getting Started

• Get Access• Become familiar with the program• Find users• Help them

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Find users

• Diferent for every champion• Send out emails• Pass out XSEDE literature• Put up posters• Give XSEDE presentations• Talk to researchers• Get referrals from local HPC resources

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Find Users: XSEDE Brochure’s• Pass out and post the “What is XSEDE” fier as well as the

Science and Education Highlights brochure.– “What is XSEDE”:

http://tinyurl.com/bn9qkj3– Highlights:

http://tinyurl.com/cuygekz

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You can request a stack of the latest Highlights brochures. Just send an email to Kay with your shipping address.

Find Users: Champion Reports• Review the weekly Champions report and take a look at who

is currently using XSEDE resources on your campus (you will only start to receive these AFTER you create a User Portal account and apply for your Campus Champions Allocation

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Getting Started

• Get Access• Become familiar with the program• Find users• Help them

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Get and use your campus champion allocation

• Step One – Campus Champion Allocation (days)– Users log onto the Portal and get an account– Send Campus Champion (you) their portal account ID

• Step Two – Start-Up/Educational Allocation (weeks)– Help users sign up for a startup account– Encourage users to do benchmarking

• Step Three – XRAC (months)– Requires written proposal and CVs

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https://www.xsede.org/how-to-get-an-allocation

Working with your allocation

• Apply for your Campus Champions allocation– https://www.xsede.org/web/campus-champions/ccalloc

• Allocation Tips for Champions– Direct Link: http://tinyurl.com/czurrvu– I selected a some of these tips for the next few slides.

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NOTE: access to your allocation is meant to get them going – not serve as their startup or production environment

• Tip 10: Monitor your users’ usage on your allocation to make sure they don’t use up your allocation running their “production” jobs

How to Manage Your Champion Allocation

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• Tip 8: Make sure to remove users after they obtain their own allocation or no longer need access to yours

How to Manage Your Champion Allocation

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How to Manage Your Champion Allocation

• Tip 9: Make sure your users change the allocation number in their jobs after they get their own allocation so they will charge against their new allocation. Have them:– Change the number in the job submission file (see

specific resource guide for details)-OR-

– Email help@xsede.org with a request to change the “default” project number on the resource (if they are on multiple projects)

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How to Manage Your Champion Allocation

• Tip 11: If you run out of cycles on a resource before your allocation is up for renewal, you can submit a “supplemental” request for additional time but explain briefy in your abstract why you need the additional cycles on the resource.

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Agenda

• Who am I?• What is XSEDE?• The Campus Champions Program• How do I get started?• Closing thoughts

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Ci-Days or other events

• Cyber-infrastructure days• XSEDE can send you people to man a booth• You can volunteer to man a booth for XSEDE

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Campus Bridging Activities• Info can be found here:

– https://www.xsede.org/web/guest/campus-bridging

• A recent presentation on Campus Bridging concepts:– https://www.xsede.org/documents/10157/185952/campusbridging.pdf

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Campus Champion Fellows:

• 2013-2014 Campus Champion Fellows:– Ben Ong -- Michigan State University– Alla Kammerdiner -- New Mexico State University– Luis Cueva-Parra -- Auburn University -- Montgomery– Shawn Duan -- South Dakota State University– James McClure -- Virginia Tech University– Eric Shook -- Kent State University

• Info about the program can be found here:– https://www.xsede.org/web/guest/ccfellows

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XSEDE14

• Mark Your Calenders– https://conferences.xsede.org/

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Where to Get Help

• If you are not sure about something, ask for assistance. You don’t have to assist your users alone and “in-the-dark”:– Check out the XSEDE website:

http://www.xsede.org

– Email help@xsede.org– Email the Campus Champions list:

campuschampions@xsede.org– Email your “friendly neighborhood” Campus Champions “Tech

Support”: Dirk Colbry – colbrydi@msu.edu

Kim Dillman – kadillma@purdue.edu

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Questions?