Researcher-Facing Track

Do you help researchers using IT tools to further their research goals?
Are you involved in research computing and/or data science training?
Do you consult with researchers on more effectively doing their research with advanced computing resources?
Compute with data?

The Researcher-Facing Track of the People Network brings together people from research computing groups, libraries, research institutes, and other organizations who support researchers in every phase of the research lifecycle. Many of us are also Data- & Systems-Facing, but this track is a community-led opportunity to discuss the practices, perspectives, and experiences of facilitation from any perspective.

Topics include:

  • Research computing facilitation
  • Outreach to all disciplines, esp. those under-represented, to aid with research computing resources
  • Education and training
  • The art and practice of facilitation
  • Increasing communications, collaborations, and team-building
  • Research computing UX and user-facing tech
  • And more, as determined by our members!

We connect via monthly calls and an email list. We also invite you to review and contribute to the Leading Practices of Facilitation!

The Researcher-Facing Track is supported by the team efforts of two Co-Coordinators and a Steering Committee. Send questions or comments, feedback, call topic ideas, etc., to the coordinators at rf-coordinators@carcc.org.

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 second Thursday of the month,1p ET/ 12p CT/ 11a MT/ 10a PT/ 8a HT. Connection information and links to any materials are distributed via email.

Track Leadership:

Track Coordinators (rf-coordinators@carcc.org)
Justin Booth, Dir. Research IT, Michigan State University
Tobin Magle, Lead Data Management Specialist, Northwestern University

Steering Committee Members (alphabetically)
Gladys Karina Andino Bautista
Carrie Brown
Katia Bulekova
Martin Cuma
Annelie Rugg
Kurt Showmaker

We also wish to thank persons who have previously lead and contributed to the Researcher-Facing track:

Former Track Coordinators

  • Dana Brunson (Internet2)
  • Bob Freeman (Harvard University)
  • Claire Mizumoto (U. California, San Diego)

Former Track Steering Committee Members

  • Christina Koch (UW-Madison)
  • Dirk Colbry (Michigan State University)
  • Lauren Michael (UW-Madison)
  • Amy Neeser (UC Berkeley)
  • Janna Ore Nugent (Northwestern)
  • Wirawan Purwanto (Old Dominion University)
  • Erin Shaw (USC)

Upcoming Call(s)

Title: ACCESS Pegasus – A hosted workflow system for ACCESS users

Speakers: Mats Rynge, Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California

Date: June 13th, 2024

Abstract:

Processing and analyzing large research datasets has become more complicated as workflows require multiple dependencies and the volume of data requires analysis on high performance computing systems. Creating portable research workflows is critical for efficient, scalable reproducible research. The Pegasus workflow management system allows researchers to construct workflows in abstract terms without worrying about the details of the underlying execution environment and can coordinate multiple distributed resources. This presentation will introduce ACCESS Pegasus – a new hosted, Jupyter based, workflow interface to ACCESS resources.

Also, please take a moment to vote on these potential R-F call topics! Thanks for your input. 

Previous Calls

05/09/2024 Open On Demand: Improvements and Recent developments video
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04/11/2024 Generative Artificial Intelligence Tools: A Panel Discussion video
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03/14/2024 The Open Science Pool (OSPool) and OSG Services video
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02/08/2024 JetStream2 – Researcher-Facing Resources and Support. video
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01/12/2024 What’s Cool in 2024 video
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11/09/2023 Exploring the Frontiers of CyberGIS and Geospatial Data Science video
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10/12/2023 Amazon Lightsail for Research video
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09/14/2023 Supporting Humanities Researchers: Roadblocks and Opportunities video
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08/11/2023 Evolution of Containers for HPC video
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06/08/2023 ACCESS Allocation Services: National cyberinfrastructure for research, development, and education no video
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05/11/2023 Current Research on Accessible Computing video
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03/9/2023 STRIDES, Cloud Service Program at The National Institute of Health video
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02/08/2023 ACCESS Support Empowers Your Needs video
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01/12/2023 What’s hot in 2023? video
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11/10/2022 Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer video
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10/13/2022 Research data storage video
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09/08/2022 Inter-institutional collaboration video
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08/11/2022 Highlights from PEARC22 video
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06/09/2022 Supporting researchers with the NIH Data Management and Sharing Plan Requirement video
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04/14/2022 Supporting Research Data Management video
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03/10/2022 Part 2: Sensitive Data in Research Computing – Through Cloud Services video
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02/10/2022 Sensitive Data in Research Computing – HIPAA support at the University of Utah video
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01/13/2022 Saying No! When, Why, and How to Say No to Researchers video
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12/09/2021 CaRCC/People Network End-of-Year Party doc
11/11/2021 Supporting GPU computing video
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10/14/2021 Series on Leading Practices of Facilitation: Part 2: Improving our People-Facing Skills: Revisiting the Leading Practices of Facilitation video
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09/09/2021 Bridging the Gap: Reaching Underrepresented Research Domains for Large-Scale Computing video
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07/08/2021 Building Teams with Graduate Student Research Facilitators video
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06/10/2021 No call. Virtual Residency week
05/13/2021 Workflow Tools for Portable, Reproducible Data Analysis video – recording starts mid-call due to problems at the start
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04/08/2021 On Measuring the Impact of Training video
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03/11/2021 All About Orienting Researchers to Research Computing + Data Resources video
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02/11/2021 Supporting Researchers with Containers video
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01/14/2021 All About CaRCC (… beyond the R-F Track) video
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11/12/20 CaRCC End-Of-Year Party doc
11/12/2020 Profiling and Optimizing R Code in Your Workloads video
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10/08/2020 Writing More Equitable Job Postings video
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09/10/2020 Supporting research projects on the cloud video unavailable
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07/09/2020 Big Data, Big Compute Solutions, a Community Discussion video
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05/14/2020 Remote Support (cont’d): Working with Your Team Remotely video
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04/09/2020 Sharing Good Practices in Remote User Support & Training video
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03/12/2020 User Support via Ask.CI and Locales video
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02/13/2020 Doing it in public: User support via Slack, open forums, Github repos and blogs video
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01/09/2020 Handling Support Requests – A Community Discussion video
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12/12/2019 University of Missouri reports and Researcher Facing/CI-Engineer Metrics video
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11/14/2019 Open OnDemand User Experiences & Challenges video
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10/10/2019 An Expansion of User Support Services for the Research Computing Group at the University of Colorado Boulder video
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09/12/2019 A Startup Framework for Building Digital Research Capacity and Community at UCLA doc
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08/08/2019 PEARC19 recap! doc
07/11/2019 Creating effective training materials doc
06/13/2019 Lightning talks / Open mic sessions on track topics doc
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