TY - GEN
T1 - NCSA Internship Program for Cyberinfrastructure Professionals
AU - Lapine, Daniel
AU - Kindratenko, Volodymyr
AU - Rosu, Luisa Maria
N1 - Funding Information:
This paper is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 1730519. We acknowledge the contribution of Olena Kindratenko for her assistance with the outreach to attract new program participants.
Funding Information:
In 2017, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) established a pilot internship program for cyberinfrastructure (CI) professionals. The program, funded by NSF’s Office of Advanced Cy-berinfrastructure (OAC) (award 1730519), was designed to address the shortage of a workforce with the specialized skills needed to support advanced CI operations. The program was envisioned to provide internship opportunities for individuals who want to gain first-hand experience in the CI operations at a supercomputing center, and develop and refine instructional materials to serve as a template that is openly distributed for use by other centers and institutions to train CI professionals. Program interns are selected from a pool of applicants with the main selection criteria of having a completed classwork equivalent to an associate degree and a demonstrated interest in a career in CI operations. Interns work directly with a group of NCSA engineers in one of the areas of CI focus to gain hands-on experience in the deployment and operation of high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure at a leading HPC center. The expectation is that interns will enter a workforce that will develop, deploy, manage and support advanced CI at other universities, centers, and industry to meet the needs of the national computational science research community across academia and industry.
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PY - 2020/7/26
Y1 - 2020/7/26
N2 - In 2017, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) established a pilot internship program for cyberinfrastructure (CI) professionals. The program, funded by NSF's Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC) (award 1730519), was designed to address the shortage of a workforce with the specialized skills needed to support advanced CI operations. The program was envisioned to provide internship opportunities for individuals who want to gain first-hand experience in the CI operations at a supercomputing center, and develop and refine instructional materials to serve as a template that is openly distributed for use by other centers and institutions to train CI professionals. Program interns are selected from a pool of applicants with the main selection criteria of having a completed classwork equivalent to an associate degree and a demonstrated interest in a career in CI operations. Interns work directly with a group of NCSA engineers in one of the areas of CI focus to gain hands-on experience in the deployment and operation of high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure at a leading HPC center. The expectation is that interns will enter a workforce that will develop, deploy, manage and support advanced CI at other universities, centers, and industry to meet the needs of the national computational science research community across academia and industry.
AB - In 2017, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) established a pilot internship program for cyberinfrastructure (CI) professionals. The program, funded by NSF's Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure (OAC) (award 1730519), was designed to address the shortage of a workforce with the specialized skills needed to support advanced CI operations. The program was envisioned to provide internship opportunities for individuals who want to gain first-hand experience in the CI operations at a supercomputing center, and develop and refine instructional materials to serve as a template that is openly distributed for use by other centers and institutions to train CI professionals. Program interns are selected from a pool of applicants with the main selection criteria of having a completed classwork equivalent to an associate degree and a demonstrated interest in a career in CI operations. Interns work directly with a group of NCSA engineers in one of the areas of CI focus to gain hands-on experience in the deployment and operation of high-performance computing (HPC) infrastructure at a leading HPC center. The expectation is that interns will enter a workforce that will develop, deploy, manage and support advanced CI at other universities, centers, and industry to meet the needs of the national computational science research community across academia and industry.
KW - HPC
KW - cyberinfrastructure
KW - internship
KW - training
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U2 - 10.1145/3311790.3396622
DO - 10.1145/3311790.3396622
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85089272472
T3 - PervasiveHealth: Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare
SP - 414
EP - 420
BT - PEARC 2020 - Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing 2020
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 2020 Conference on Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing: Catch the Wave, PEARC 2020
Y2 - 27 July 2020 through 31 July 2020
ER -