Campus Champions

Campus Champions @ Illinois was started in August 2018. Campus Champions act as facilitators helping campus members find the best high performance computing related resources for their projects. They may give presentations that outline available HPC resources to interested campus groups or assist with training events.

A Campus Champion is an employee of, or affiliated with, a college or university (or other institution engaged in research), whose role includes helping their institution's researchers, educators and scholars (faculty, postdocs, graduate students, undergraduates, and professionals) with their computing-intensive and data-intensive research, education, scholarship and/or creative activity, including but not limited to helping them to use advanced digital capabilities to improve, grow and/or accelerate these achievements.

Additional information on the Campus Champions Program is available on their website.

ACCESS

Scientists, engineers, social scientists, and humanists around the world – many of them at colleges and universities – use advanced digital resources and services every day. Things like supercomputers, collections of data, and new tools are critical to the success of those researchers, who use them to make our lives healthier, safer, and better.

ACCESS is an NSF-funded virtual organization that integrates and coordinates the sharing of advanced digital services - including supercomputers and high-end visualization and data analysis resources - with researchers nationally to support science.

Digital services provide users with seamless integration to NSF's high-performance computing and data resources. ACCESS's integrated, comprehensive suite of advanced digital services combined with other high-end facilities and campus-based resources, serve as the foundation for a national cyber-infrastructure ecosystem.

Additional information on ACCESS, including training opportunities, are detailed on the ACCESS website and user portal.

HPC Training Opportunities

HPC training opportunities at Illinois are offered by: the Campus Cluster (ICCP), Department of Computer Science (CS) and the Computational Science and Engineering Program (CSE).

  • The Research IT Portal links to training resources from various sources web site .
  • The Campus Cluster (ICCP) offers links to training resources from their web site .
  • NCSA has a periodic "News and Events" email newsletter that details various HPC related events and training opportunities. Sign-up here .
  • The Computer Science Department (cs .illinois.edu ) and Computational Science and Engineering Program (cse.illinois.edu ) offer traditional classroom based courses on Parallel Programming and more advanced HPC related topics.

Campus Outreach Opportunities

Outreach Goals:

  • Establishing connections and working relationships with campus units, departments, research groups, labs and individual researchers is a primary goal of the Campus Champion.
  • Identifying campus community members who might be curious about how High Performance Computing (HPC) might enhance their research efforts will be another main goal.
  • Assisting interested HPC consumers with identifying and accessing HPC resources suitable to their research needs.
  • Announcing training opportunities and offering talks/presentations.

Scheduled Outreach Events: