Student Cluster Competition Rebecca Hartman-Baker NERSC/Lawrence Berkeley Lab rjhartmanbaker@lbl.gov
Background • I was team coach for first Australian team to compete, SC13 and SC14 • Now I work at NERSC • These slides are my opinion and not opinion of my former/current employers
iVEC/Pawsey: Unincorporated Joint Venture with 5 Partners 3
Background and Demographics • Perth, Western Australia: the most isolated city in the world – WA: 35% of Australian land mass, 2 nd largest administrative territory in the world (#1: Yakutia, Russia) – Same size as continental US from the Rockies to Pacific – 2.5 million people in WA, 80% living in Perth – Nearest city > 100,000: Adelaide, 2000 km away • People already living in WA stay; undergrads continue to PhD at local universities
Motivations to Do SCC • Increase computational science literacy in WA • Develop future users/employees • Train professional workforce for local industry • Exposure in international HPC community • It sounded like fun!
iVEC/Pawsey SCC Teams • Engaged with 3 of 4 local universities • Students received varying levels of support for participation – Incorporated into Honours thesis – Credit for computational physics lab – Nothing
SCC Team Training • One afternoon per week, through university school year, team met with me – Australian schedule: 1 st semester March-June, 2 nd semester August-November • Covered a wide variety of topics, including: – System administration – MPI/OpenMP programming – Debuggers, profilers, performance tools – Computer procurement (with vendor) – Benchmarking and applications for competition – Visualization – Team-building
Support & Funding • My time & travel supported by iVEC/Pawsey • Funding for travel: $3000/student – Sought corporate sponsorship from local industry (mining companies, iVEC/Pawsey corporate users) – Limited support from universities for student travel funds
Student Outcomes • 2013: 3 students went on to PhD at local universities – 1 attended SC14 in Broader Engagement – Using more HPC in dissertation research than they would have – 1 got job at local mining company HPC center • 2014: 1 student got internship from team sponsor – Student was “subject matter expert” on ADCIRC, sponsoring company does modeling of harbors, shallow water, etc. – Another student inspired to continue her education
NERSC SCC Teams • Currently working on application for ISC16 team • “All-girl” team of former NERSC interns • Motivations: – Increase pipeline of underrepresented groups into HPC (and NERSC) – Showcase NERSC as a great supporter of HPC education, and accepting place to work – Fame and fortune
NERSC Plans for SCC Training • Remote training for all participants via Zoom conference software • Similar curriculum to Australian teams • Meet in person in June, before competition • Varying levels of institutional support – Independent study – Nothing
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