Grad Student: Lauren Prox

lauren.prox@duke.edu
lp203@duke.edu
Duke University
Timezone: Eastern l U.S.

PhD Student, Environment | Air Quality and Global Health
https://healthpolicyresearch-scholars.org/scholars/lauren-prox/

Availability:

Via sign up form:

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've used ACCESS in my research

Via pre-survey:

How should we address you?
Lauren

Please describe your experience using advanced research computing?
I use ACCESS to run models and conduct data analyses for my doctoral research fairly regularly

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've used the R coding and Machine Learning capabilities.

Remind us what your role is, as it applies to working with ACCESS:
Grad Student

What is your research domain?
Environmental Science

What courses do you teach?
No answer

What is advanced research computing is your resource particularly well suited for?
No answer

Who are your stakeholders?
No answer

What one thing do you appreciate most about the program?
It is affordable (free!) and accessible and I like the different trainings offered.

What one thing would you change about the program?
I would probably make it easier to use some of the interactive features in Rstudio

Interview guide:

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

• Login, introductions, set up screen share
  

• Task 1: Where can you find information about citing ACCESS in your publications?
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• Task 2: Where do you go to find Systems Status?
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• Task 3: Where can you go to open a help ticket?
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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: Can you find what resources are running PyTorch?
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• Task 6: Can you find a resource that runs ACCESS On-Demand?
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• Task 7: Can you find an Affinity Group for FABRIC users?
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• Task 8: Where can you go for training to use ANVIL?
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• Task 9: Can you find how to get started with ACCESS MATCH services to help you with your research project?
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• Task 10: If you want to get involved and volunteer with the ACCESS community where would you go?
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• Task 11: Please review this page and suggest any additions or deletions.
  https://access-ci.org/get-started/for-researchers/
  

• Task 12: Are you planning to use ACCESS resources again?
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• Wrap up, thank you