UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Penn State Institute for Computational and Data Sciences (ICDS) and its partners, including KeystoneREN and the Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP), are hosting "CyberAccelerate: Elevate Research using Collaborative Resources from PA Science DMZ Network and ACCESS CI." This workshop aims to explore new available opportunities and free advanced cyberinfrastructure resources to help elevate computational research.
This full-day, hybrid workshop will take place in person at Penn State University Park, 233B HUB-Robeson Center, and virtually via Zoom. Registration will open at 8 a.m. with the first session starting at 9 a.m. If attending in person, breakfast refreshments will be provided at registration.
"The CyberAccelerate workshop is an exciting event that provides an opportunity to build multi-institutional collaborations, create diverse research teams and identify new avenues of inquiry,” said Wayne Figurelle, ICDS assistant director of innovation and outreach. “We are excited to host a forum for colleagues from a variety of institutions to come together to share research thrusts and brainstorm, in an interdisciplinary fashion, common areas of interest.”
Event co-host Rick Adkins, IUP STEAMSHOP director and professor in the Department of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, will lead a session in which faculty will share brief research overviews followed by breakout sessions designed to foster collaborations.
Ken Miller, KeystoneREN chief technology officer, will lead a PA Science DMZ training, including how the PA Science DMZ can help accelerate computational research. In computer networks, a DMZ, or demilitarized zone, is a network that separates one network from other untrusted networks such as the internet.
The PA Science DMZ’s goal is to create the Pennsylvania Regional Science (PA-DMZ) that enables and enhances access for under-resourced state institutions of higher education to cyberinfrastructure-based resources and services in support of science driven research and education applications.
The afternoon will be dedicated to learning about free resources from ACCESS. Attendees will be able to participate in a hands-on demonstration using the available resources.
ACCESS is a program established and funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation to help researchers and educators utilize the nation’s most advanced computing systems and services, according to Carrie Brown, ICDS interim client support lead.
“I’m excited to introduce attendees to the cyberinfrastructure resources provided by ACCESS,” Brown said. “They offer high-scale computing, graphical processing units for artificial intelligence/machine learning workflows and specialty resources as well as data storage platforms and support services.”
Through ACCESS, researchers can also “contract computational effort through their MATCH program with research experts, students or interface with the Science Gateways Center of Excellence, which provides support to establish new or develop existing science gateway portals,” Brown said.
All of the offered resources are free to any U.S.-based researcher.
Researchers within Penn State and beyond are encouraged to register for this event. Registration and travel grant applications are open through Friday, Oct. 11.
Visit ICDS’ website for more information, event registration and travel grant applications.
This forum is possible through the collaboration from various partners including ACCESS, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, KeystoneREN, Lafayette College, Swarthmore College the Penn State University Digital Foundry at New Kensington and the Penn State Institute for Computational and Data Sciences.