Resource Provider: Marty Kandes
- Christine Golus
mkandes@sdsc.edu
San Diego Supercomputer Center
Timezone: Eastern?
Computational & Data Science
Research Specialist
https://www.linkedin.com/in/marty-kandes-b53a34144/
Availability:
Friday 2/7 from 11-1 | Friday 2/7 from 2-4 |
Interviewers:
Christine Golus and JP
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?
Marty
Please describe your experience using advanced research computing?
20 years
If you've used ACCESS, what allocation level did you start with?
Not applicable
What have you used or hope to use the ACCESS website to do?
Better understand its organization and how to direct users to correct info
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?
General HPC, Scientific Computing, Deep Learning, etc
Who are your stakeholders?
No answer
What one thing do you appreciate most about the program?
Organizational framework to provide a single application and allocation process for all RPs
What one thing would you change about the program?
Many processes behind the scenes are somewhat opaque or unclear to some staff at RP sites
Interview guide:
60-90 minute interview. Each task will take approximately 5-10 minutes. We understand you are an experienced RP, the first 10 questions are geared toward a new (non-integrated) Resource Provider.
Begin here: access-ci.org
Login, introductions, set up screen share, record to cloud, click transcript, at end of interview save transcript
Task 1: Can you find information specifically for Resource Providers?
Task 2: Can you find which institutions are currently participating as ACCESS Resource Providers?
Task 3: Where can you find information about your system's performance?
Task 4: Where can you find Systems Status?
Task 5: Where can you find news just for Resource Providers?
Task 6: How do resources integrate into the ACCESS system?
Task 7: Where can you go for help?
Task 8: Where would you go to join the RP Slack channel?
Task 9: How can you join the RP Forum?
Task 10: If you want to get involved and volunteer with the ACCESS community as an RP, where would you go?
Task 11: Do you know how to set up an ACCESS training session for your resource?
Task 12: Do you know how to announce outages or other type of news about your resource?
Task 13: Do you know how to update resource information and resource contacts?
Task 14: Where can you find XDmod? Do you know how to use this tool?
Task 15: Please review these pages and suggest any additions and deletions.
https://access-ci.org/about/resource-providers/
https://access-ci.org/get-started/for-resource-providers/Task 16: Are you seeing any trends in types of allocation requests? Are there other resources your institution may want to integrate into ACCESS?
Wrap up, thank you, at end of interview save transcript