Emerging Centers Track

The Emerging Centers Track of the People Network brings together members of research computing departments/aspiring centers that are just getting started at their institutions, research computing groups at smaller institutions, and folks who are new to the research computing and data community. 

The Emerging Centers track of CaRCC will discusses community requested topics such as:

  • funding models,
  • engaging with faculty and investigators,
  • working with campus leadership, and
  • developing research computing/data services (compute, storage, networks, training, applications, and people) on campuses.

Join Us!

Join Us! Fill out our membership form to let us know who you are and what you’re interested in. We’ll add you to the email list. Visit the People Network page to join other tracks.

Monthly Calls

Monthly calls are on the third Wednesday of the month at 12PM ET / 11AM CT / 10AM MT / 9AM PT. Connection information and links to any materials are distributed via the Researcher-Facing email list.

Track Leadership:

Track Coordinators (ec-coordinators@carcc.org):

Patrick Clemins LinkedIn, Director, Research Computing and Data, Large Research Initiatives; Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Vermont

Rich Knepper LinkedIn, Director, Cornell University Center for Advanced Computing

Steering Committee Members (alphabetically):

Alex Feltus LinkedIn, Professor, Clemson University; Co-Founder, Praxis AI

Jason Wells LinkedIn, Senior Research Computing Professional, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Kirk Anne LinkedIn, Director, Research Computing, Rochester Institute of Technology

Patrick Clemins LinkedIn, Manager, Cyberinfrastructure and Partnerships, Vermont EPSCoR; Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Vermont

Preston Smith LinkedIn, Executive Director, Research Computing, Purdue University

Susan Ivey LinkedIn, Director, Research Computing & Data Facilitation Service, North Carolina State University

Previous and Scheduled Calls

08/21/2024
12pm ET
PEARC24 Recap and Emerging Centers BoF Debrief
Moderated Discussion
doc
07/17/2024
12pm ET
Generative AI Use By Researchers and in the Classroom
Alex Feltus, Clemson University
Jason Woodward, Cornell University
doc
06/26/2024
12pm ET
The National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) Pilot
Moderated Discussion
doc
05/15/2024Open Science Grid (OSG) for Emerging Centers
Tim Cartwright and Christina Koch, OSG
doc
video
04/17/2024RESCHEDULED for June:
The National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) Pilot
03/20/2024HPC in Africa (revisited)
Bryan Johnson, Senior HPC Technologist, Advanced Computer Engineering Lab
doc
slides
video
02/21/2024Communicating with your Users: Impacts, Services, and Documentationdoc
video
01/17/2024Roundtable Discussion on Future Topicsdoc
video
12/20/2023NO MONTHLY CALL: Holiday Break
11/15/2023NO MONTHLY CALL: SC23 in Denver, CO
10/18/2023Containers: How and Whydoc
slides
video
09/20/2023National Resources Series: CloudBank and Jetstream2 – Affordable Cloud Servicesdoc
video
08/16/2023Centre for High Performance Computing, South Africa
Bryan Johnson, Senior HPC Technologist, Advanced Computer Engineering Lab
doc
slides
video
07/19/2023NO MONTHLY CALL: PEARC23 in Portland, OR
06/21/2023National Resources Series: The National Research Platform (NRP)
Larry Smarr, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of California, San Diego
doc
video
05/17/2023CaRCC People Network Focus on Accessibility:
Introduction to Web Accessibility
Lena Bohman, Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell
doc
video
04/19/2023National Resources Series: ACCESS Allocations
Dave Hart, NCAR and ACCESS Allocations
doc
video
03/15/2023FAIR Principles and Storage
Christine Kilpatrick, GO FAIR US
doc
video
02/23/2023The New NIH Data Management and Sharing Policy
Joint Call with EDUCAUSE RCD CG
doc
video
01/18/2023Panel: Recent NSF CC* Planning Grant Awardees
Dan Stageman, CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Tony Skjellum, University of Tennessee Chattanooga
Yanyan Zhuang & Greg Williams, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
Yongning Tang, Illinois State University
doc
video
12/14/2022The Business of HPC Centers: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
Dr. Scott Yockel, Harvard University
doc
video
10/19/2022The Cultural Fit between Research and Enterprise IT:
Poll-guided Discussion
doc
video
09/21/2022Metrics for RCD Successdoc
video
08/17/2022Specialization and Silosdoc
video
06/15/2022Looking forward: future topic discussiondoc
video
05/18/2022Meet the Strategy and Policy-Facing Trackdoc
video
04/20/2022Discovering, Recruiting, Developing Staffdoc
video
03/16/2022RCD Staffing Modelsdoc
video
02/16/2022Find Funding for Your Initiatives, community sharingdoc
01/19/2022Developing Policiesdoc
video
10/20/2021Series on Leading Practices of Facilitation: Part 3doc
09/15/2021Recap of PEARC21 Workshop: Refining your RCD Pitchdoc
05/19/2021Emerging Centers Track 2.0doc
04/21/2021NSF Service Providers: Jetstream2, Bridges2, and Anvildoc
video
03/17/2021Experiences Supporting, Promoting, Advancing RCDdoc
video
01/27/2021Open Science Grid Overviewdoc
12/16/2020NSF Program Directors / EPOCdoc
video
10/21/2020CASC and Emerging Centersdoc
video
09/16/2020RCD Job Elements and Career Guidedoc
07/15/2020Policy Developmentdoc
video
06/17/2020Center Budget Construction Paneldoc
04/15/2020COVID-19 Impactsdoc
video
03/18/2020Open OnDemanddoc
video
02/19/2020Research Computing Strategic & Cyberinfrastructure Plansdoc
01/15/2020Tools and Methods for Collecting Research Use Casesdoc
video
11/20/2019SC19 Conference Takeawaysdoc
10/16/2019Identifying and Working with Facultydoc
09/18/2019Emerging Centers Kickoff Calldoc

Resources for Emerging Center Members

Refining Your Pitch (Examples)