3.0 11 October 2022: Incentives

Owned by Jay Alameda
Oct 12, 2022
4 min read

Agenda

 

 

CIP proposals should also include plans to interface with the awardee of the Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Coordination Ecosystem: Services & Support (ACCESS) program end user support services (Track 2), as described in the ACCESS program page and solicitation (NSF 21-555). CIP projects must support the ACCESS program end user support services track goal of developing and fostering the Computational Science Support Network (CSSN) that will assimilate and coordinate the human capital, funded by NSF, at the national, regional and campus levels. Therefore, CIP projects are required to commit 20% of the time of funded CI Professionals to support the research activities of the broader computational science community outside the proposing institutions, coordinated by the ACCESS Track 2 awardee. It is expected that funded CI professionals will contribute to the CSSN by actively assisting prospective, new, and current users of national shared CI resources through activities ranging from institution-level, one-on-one user engagements to regional and national community events organized by the ACCESS Track 2 awardee.

 

 

NSF expects to make awards in 2022 under the Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Coordination Ecosystem: Services & Support (ACCESS) solicitation (https://www.nsf.gov/publications/pub_summ.jsp?ods_key=nsf21555 ). Awards in this program  (CC* Regional Computing) area are expected to work cooperatively with ACCESS award activities and services arising from these awards. Specifically, award terms and conditions for awards in this area will include adoption and use of ACCESS services through Track 4 of the ACCESS program: Monitoring and Measurement Services, toward improved visibility and understanding of shared scientific computing usage and needs at a national scale.

 

Present: Alana Romanella, Jay Alameda, Robert Deleon, Agbeli Ameko, Tom Maiden

Regrets:


Summary Notes:

 

  • Continued unpacking each track’s community building and engagement and DEI plans

    • Operations - building and engaging community > RP coordinator Tom Maiden

    • Allocations: DEI is part of continuous improvement. Working to improve allocations meeting experience through training and survey allocations board on DEI perspectives, demographics, etc

    • Support: Wants to collaborate on building cross-ACCESS DEI plan. Community outreach and promotion at key conference opportunities, also looking at engaging NSF awards with intended connections to ACCESS (eg CC*, CyberTraining, …)

    • Measurement: Interested in building and implementing a broader, cross-ACCESS community building and engagement and DEI plan

  • Focused on community connectors

    • Support - CSSN & CyberTraining CI Professional (CIP) awards

      • CSSN: automated, community knowledgebase (asynchronous environment): community can post documentation and answer questions (this is the community, not support team members)

      • Match Plus and Match Premier: opportunities are now live, aiming to select 10 and run projects November through March/April/May timeframe. This couples with the community grants pilot, which provides incentives for the community (CSSN) to participate.

    • Measurement: CC* Regional Computing

      • Metrics is supposed to be tracking usage for these NSF investments

        • Gain larger picture of computing across NSF investments

        • Centralized reporting into XDMOD

        • Personal engagement with each awardee, offering a couple of different options for integration (awardee can run XDMOD (central XDMOD can access local XDMOD), or offer a format for the awardee to provide data for ingestion into XDMOD central DB. Two types of data: job information, and performance information

  • Cross-ACCESS community building and engagement planning

    • Broad agreement on need to incentivize community to work with ACCESS, ie, for CI projects to want to do their work within the context of ACCESS. Some ideas from the discussion:

      • Broadly accessible documentation site

      • Forum for promoting (CI project) events

      • other value-adds for smaller projects

      • One persistent incentive: doing good work in this context enhances opportunities for future projects to be supported (good track record)

      • More immediate incentives:

        • Community grants (support) - two tiers - 1000 and 2500 in support of conference travel. Lower tier granted based on single mode of contributing to the CSSN (eg, Ask.CI, answering slack questions, conducting tutorials), higher tier is contributing through two or more modalities

    • This seems to be a foundational theme for building community broadly - providing incentives for engaging with ACCESS - support incentives, allocations, doing better with your NSF, conducting your project tutorial within the larger stage of ACCESS

      • Operations - additional community building elements

        • internship program - would like to work with Allocations to help disseminate word about these opportunities, these are prime opportunities for improving the diversity of the community

        • Concerige integration experts for new RPs: help broaden range of RPs

        • Integration roadmaps: another foundational piece for new RPs

      • Emerging theme: CI projects can be amplified working within the context of ACCESS, and in particular, have deep opportunities with Support’s scalable infrastructure.