perez@tamu.edu
Texas A&M
High Performance Research Computing
Timezone: Central
Director for Advanced Computing Enablement at Texas A&M University, High Performance Research Computing
https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisaperez-io/
Availability:
Monday 1/27 from 1 pm -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 have used ACCESS in my research
Via pre-survey:
How should we address you?
Lisa
Please describe your experience using advanced research computing?
I have over 30 years of experience in advanced research computing as a researcher, and more than 20 years as an HPC sysadmin and research support specialist.
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?
Interview notes hereTask 2: Do you know how to announce outages or other type of news about your resource?
Interview notes hereTask 3: Do you know how to update resource information and resource contacts?
Interview notes hereTask 4: Where can you find XDmod? Do you know how to use this tool?
Interview notes hereTask 5: Where can you find Systems Status information?
Interview notes hereTask 6: Where can you find news just for RPs?
Interview notes hereTask 7: Where can you go for help?
Interview notes hereTask 8: Where would you go to join the RP Slack channel?
Interview notes hereTask 9: How can you join the RP Forum?
Interview notes hereTask 10: If you want to get involved and volunteer with the ACCESS community as an RP, where would you go?
Interview notes hereTask 11: 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/
Interview notes hereTask 12: Are you seeing any trends in types of allocation requests?
Interview notes hereWrap up, thank you