2025-04-21 NSF - OpenCI Meeting Agenda & Summary

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Attendees:

John Towns, Amitava (Amit) Majumdar, Chuck Pavloski, Dina Meek, Lavanya Podila, Cindy Wong, Sharon Geva, Puri Bangalore, Kim Mann Bruch, Shannon Bradley

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Agenda/Notes

  1. Updates from NSF (5 mins)

    1. no updates

    2. Need to send our annual review PPT to them ahead of time

    3. This is not a review panel - is more focused on discussion for next year - meshing with the PEP

      1. will there be a report afterwards?

        1. They intend to have a session afterwards with us - in an ACO meeting probably

        2. They will tell us in the meeting - here is what we are hearing - here is what we are not hearing

        3. They will pull out what they heard across all the sessions - and then discuss in an EC meeting probably

      2. Making things visible - like metrics - make things tangible

        1. “we put out some newsletters” vs “we put out X# newsletters, sent to # people, # people opened it up” etc

    4. Logistics - 2 hour meeting

      1. 20 min of slides on PY3

      2. 40 min on PY4

      3. Then discussion for 1 hr

  2. What have we heard from stakeholders? (5 mins)

    1. John attended meeting in Japan last week - International Post Exascale Science Meeting - lots of relevant discussion

      1. how do you benchmark an AI

    2. No other stakeholder interaction

  3. NSF Meeting PEP Milestone Tracking and Follow-up Tasks To Do

    1. 4 items - These should be able to be marked complete now

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  1. Area updates (10+ mins)

    1. ACO (John)

      1. Sent a draft of the PEP previously

      2. Sent annual report - has updated PEP as an appendix

        1. Aligning PEP with current status (hadn’t done it in over a year)

      3. They have ack receipt - they have not been accepted

      4. Also the Supplement should be coming soon

    2. Evaluation (Amit)

      1. Reviewing Survey Results and the impact it may have on goals and metrics

    3. Communications (Dina, Kim)

      1. Inside ACCESS coming out this week; The ACCESS Advance (external) next week

      2. PY3 Highlights book copy has been shared w/EC (POs, please let me know if you have issues accessing the document); May 2 due date

        1. @Dina Meek - is the due date of May 2 for NSF as well?

        2. Yes - for all reviewers

      3. Story (from Kim) on Stampede3 being used to study weather/Midwest flooding

      4. Kim - reached out to HPC wire (has a friend who works there) - and asked why they haven’t run our articles recently - they have run the most recent article again

    4. Project Office (Lavanya, Shannon)

      1. Planning for Quarterly Meetings

      2. Annual Report Support

      3. Prepping for annual review presentation

      4. SC work for later in the year

    5. EAB (Chuck, Cindy)

      1. EAB survey results at 6. Deadline today (reminder sent for final call)

        1. have already gotten 1 more response

      2. Next EAB meeting scheduled for June 20, 2025

        1. Call for agenda topics to EC coming up next

      3. John waiting on feedback on Goal 4 from Program Wide Metrics

        1. Hopefully will get it in their report next week


Next Meeting: 28th April 2025

 

 

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