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perez@tamu.edu
Texas A&M
High Performance Research Computing
Timezone: Central

Availability:

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Please describe your experience with supercomputing
I use supercomputers often

Are you familiar with the U.S. National Science Foundation's ACCESS program?
Yes, I have used ACCESS in my research

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If you've used ACCESS, what allocation level did you start with?
Explore

What have you used or hope to use the ACCESS website to do?
I have used the ACCESS website to apply for allocations, obtain usage stats, find allocation policies, manage my projects. I hope to use the ACCESS website to login to resources directly.

Remind us what your role is, as it applies to working with ACCESS:
Resource Provider

What is your research domain?
No answer

What courses do you teach?
No answer

What is advanced research computing is your resource particularly well suited for?
AI/ML and computational workloads that can utilize multiple GPUs and/or novel accelerators.

Who are your stakeholders?
No answer

What one thing do you appreciate most about the program?
The Explore level allocations

What one thing would you change about the program?
The high barrier to bring in new resource providers.

Interview guide:

60-90 minute interview. Each task will take approximately 5-10 minutes.

• Login, introductions, set up screen share, record
  

• Task 1: Do you know how to set up an ACCESS training session for your resource?
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• Task 2: Do you know how to announce outages or other type of news about your resource?
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• Task 3: Do you know how to update resource information and resource contacts?
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• Task 4: Where can you find XDmod? Do you know how to use this tool?
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• Task 5: Where can you find Systems Status information?
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• Task 6: Where can you find news just for RPs?
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• Task 7: Where can you go for help?
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• Task 8: Where would you go to join the RP Slack channel?
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• Task 9: How can you join the RP Forum?
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• Task 10: If you want to get involved and volunteer with the ACCESS community as an RP, where would you go?
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• If there is additional time: Are you seeing any trends in types of allocation requests?
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• After our interview would you be willing to review this pages?
  https://access-ci.org/about/resource-providers/
  https://access-ci.org/get-started/for-resource-providers/
  Suggest any information that might be added or deleted using this form:
  ADD GOOGLE DOC LINK to chat and make sure user has copied it
  

• Wrap up, thank you