Mark your calendars for these upcoming People Network calls (Zoom details at the end). We also highlight other calls from our RCD ecosystem peers, as these events touch many, if not all, in our community.
For handy calendar entries, try the CaRCC People Network Calendar (GCal view; integrate/add to your calendar app via this URL). If you’re not on our mailing lists, you can join here and join our Slack channels.
Monthly CaRCC Welcome
Tue, 10/7, 2p ET/ 1p CT/ 12p MT/ 11a PT (1st Tue)
Come to learn more about CaRCC’s community-powered organization and opportunities, and feel free to bring along or pass the word to colleagues. These use the same Zoom coordinates as our People Network calls (see bottom of this page).
CaRCC People Network Calls
Data-Facing Track (1st Tuesdays)
Tue 10/7, 1p ET/ 12p CT/ 11a MT/ 10a PT
Tiger Data @ Princeton, Curtis Hillegas and Elizabeth Holtz
Strategy and Policy-Facing Track (1st Wednesdays)
Wed 10/1, 12p ET/ 11a CT/ 10a MT/ 9a PT
Open Forum to Solicit Upcoming Topics, Community Discussion
In this forum, the Strategy and Policy-Facing Track steering committee would like to hear what topics are of concern to the community for future meetings. We will go over ideas that the leadership team has for the future and solicit feedback from the community. Bring your thinking caps!
Researcher-Facing Track (2nd Thursdays)
Thu 10/9, 1p ET/ 12p CT/ 11a MT/ 10a PT
Facilitation Across Campus, Community Discussion
In October, we will discuss how institutions are coordinating research services across various compute and data resources available to their research communities. We all have limited funding, increased regulatory compliance, and shifting technology needs that are driving change on our campuses. It’s essential that we improve our resource management to expedite the research process. The Researcher-Facing Steering Committee is still looking for presenters if you would like to share your approach to this unique issue. Please join the conversation.
Emerging Centers Track (3rd Wednesdays)
Wed 10/15, 12p ET/ 11a CT/ 10a MT/ 9a PT
Getting Started with Grant Writing, Community Discussion
Join us for our first in a series of “Getting Started with…” community discussions focused on all those “How do I get started with…” questions you have as part of an emerging center. Larger RCD organizations have resources to dedicate to specific initiatives, but when you have to wear all the RCD hats, how do you quickly and effectively find the information and tools you need to accomplish core RCD tasks? We’ll start with a short presentation on the basics of preparing a grant proposal and then hear tips, tricks, and best practices from successful (and unsuccessful!) grant awardees.
Systems-Facing Track (3rd Thursdays)
Thu 10/16, 1p ET/ 12p CT/ 11a MT/ 10a PT
Expanding Research Computing to Multiple Data Centers, Presentation
Changing the tires on a moving car? The University at Buffalo recently attempted a similar feat and in this session we share our experience of expanding the campus research computing infrastructure to multiple data centers with minimal downtime. We’ll discuss power/cooling capacity planning, network design, physical moving logistics, multi-site storage, compute node provisioning, and how we lifted full 1600lb racks. The talk will also provide an overview of the software tools we used, the challenges we faced, and lessons learned. Buckle up for this wild in the trenches tale of how we relocated our research computing infrastructure while keeping the lights on.
Speakers: Andrew E. Bruno, Assistant Director, University at Buffalo CCR; Josh Furlani, Systems Administrator, University at Buffalo CCR
Additional Community Opportunities
Thu 10/2, 1p ET/ 10a PT (1st Thursdays): RCD Mentoring Working Group Monthly Meet-Up. Join us for our August RCD Mentoring Working Group session as we continue building out our mentorship program! Meeting coordinates: Zoom Session URL. Join the workforce-mentoring-wg@carcc.org mailing list or send questions to RCD Staff and Student Workforce Mentoring Coordinators.
Wed 10/8, 1p ET/ 10a PT (2nd Wednesdays): AI Facilitation Interest Group monthly gathering. Meeting coordinates: Zoom Session URL. Join here: https://carcc.org/ai-facilitation-ig/
Tue 10/14, 1p ET/ 10a PT (2nd Tuesdays): RCD Capabilities Model Office Hours. Have questions about getting started, completing, or viewing benchmarking data with the Research Computing and Data Capabilities Model? Or are you already working with it and want to discuss suggestions for improvements you’d like to see? Meeting coordinates: Zoom Session URL. Join the capsmodel-discuss@carcc.org mailing list or send questions to capsmodel-help@carcc.org.
Tue 10/14, 2p ET/ 1p CT/ 12p MT/ 11a PT (2nd Tuesdays): RCD Staff and Student Workforce Development Interest Groups. Exploring Student Engagement in the RCD Community. Together, we’ll explore how students from undergraduates to postdocs can contribute to and benefit from the RCD community, where their voices matter most, and what strategies can maximize engagement and return on investment (ROI). Zoom Session URL (Meeting ID: 867 2543 9159 passcode 165236). Join the Interest Group mailing list.
Wed 10/8, 2p ET/ 11a PT (2nd Wednesdays): Regulated Research Community of Practice (RRCoP) Community Discussions. This month, the topic will be Achieving SOC 2 compliance. Achieving SOC 2 compliance is a complex, time-intensive process, particularly for units within larger academic institutions. Based on our experience navigating this recently, the Sherlock team at the San Diego Supercomputer Center will share key steps for SOC 2, Type 1 and Type 2 compliance, highlighting unique challenges academic entities face. Please use this Zoom link, and contact info@regulatedresearch.org or Carolyn Ellis with any questions.
Fri 10/10, 2p ET/ 11a PT (2nd Thursdays/2nd Fridays): US Research Software Engineers monthly community call. See https://us-rse.org/calendar/ for more information.
Thu 10/23, 1p ET/ 10a PT (4th Thursdays of even months): EDUCAUSE Research Computing and Data Community Group will have its monthly community call. See the Events tab within EDUCAUSE Connect for more information.
CaRCC Calls and Zoom
All CaRCC People Network calls will take place within a Zoom room communicated via email and visible in the CaRCC People Network Google calendar (see top). Please help us keep these details secure (non-public), but feel free to share with a colleague.
Interested members of the People Network need not subscribe to a particular track to participate in calls. Additional details for track members, including notes documents and any pre-call activities, will be distributed ahead of the call via the email lists and other communication channels within each track.