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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/


Interview was conducted on Monday 1/27 2-3 pm


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, record
    Interview notes here:
    Lauren first heard about ACCESS at the AAG Annual Meeting conference:
    https://www.aag.org/events/aag2024/
    She attended an ACCESS workshop at the conference. Her allocation is with Texas A&M ACES. It was set up by her instructors, the PIs on the project. She may have seen some home page information during the workshop, but started out at http://allocations.access-ci.org as her home page for the interview.

  • Task 1: Where can you find information about citing ACCESS in your publications?
    Interview notes here
    Went to search in Support. Noted AI chat bot was new. She communicated with Texas A&M and got information about how to cite publications through an email sent to her from Texas A&M ACES.
    She sent the initial query with the GET HELP button and was pleased with how quickly they got back to her.

  • Task 2: Where do you go to find Systems Status?
    Interview notes here
    Did not know where to go for Systems Status. She did receive a weekly? Texas A&M Digest with information and remembered something about systems info may have been included there.

  • Task 3: Where can you go to open a help ticket?
    Interview notes here
    She sent her initial query via the GET HELP button. She probably started at Support and then found the GET HELP button.

  • Task 4: Where can you find XDMod? Do you know how to use this tool?
    Interview notes here
    Explored events & training then allocations
    Computer geared to computer science
    Preferred XDMod
    At Duke running my machine learning models sent to the Duke compute cluster
    When

    Projected time a job would take to run
    R Studio
    How efficient is my code running?

  • Task 5: Can you find what resources are running PyTorch?
    Interview notes here
    Find software and it runs so much quicker

  • Task 6: Can you find a resource that runs ACCESS On-Demand?
    Interview notes here
    Thinks this is access support videos

  • Task 7: Can you find an Affinity Group for FABRIC users?
    Interview notes here

  • Task 8: Where can you go for training to use ANVIL?
    Interview notes here

  • Task 9: Can you find how to get started with ACCESS MATCH services to help you with your research project?
    Interview notes here
    Went to support MATCH

  • Task 10: If you want to get involved and volunteer with the ACCESS community where would you go?
    Interview notes here
    Get Volunteer

  • Task 11: Please review this page and suggest any additions or deletions.
    https://access-ci.org/get-started/for-researchers/
    Interview notes here

    Am I elgible

  • Task 12: Are you planning to use ACCESS resources again?
    Interview notes here

    Get access used Explore Allocation from

  • Wrap up, thank you

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