Don’t miss the annual CaRCC End-of-Year Party, among the other opportunities, below, to engage with your peers as you close out the year.
We also highlight other gatherings from our RCD ecosystem peers, as these events touch many, if not all, in our community. For handy calendar entries, try the CaRCC Events 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.
CaRCC End-of-Year Party!!
Thursday, December 11 from 1-2:30pm ET (calendar invite send to CaRCC subscribers)
Join this year’s party in your most festive attire to partake in casual fun and reflections! We’ll discuss CaRCC contributor opportunities and award the first Contributor-of-the-Year, host hobby-affinity breakouts, and hand out prizes via raffle and voting on the “Best Attire”. We also invite you to provide input to CaRCC, reflect on the recent Supercomputing conference, or partake in other timely discussions. The Call doc and regular Zoom room will be distributed via email, as usual. See you there!
Monthly CaRCC Welcome
Tue 12/2, 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 post).
CaRCC People Network Calls
Data-Facing Track (1st Tuesdays)
Tue 12/2, 12p ET/ 11a CT/ 10a MT/ 9a PT
2026 Track Topics Brainstorm
Join to reflect on your favorite topics from 2025 and to make sure your ideas are heard for topics to discuss in 2026 Track calls!
Strategy and Policy-Facing Track (1st Wednesdays)
Wed 12/3, 12p ET/ 11a CT/ 10a MT/ 9a PT
Supporting Research Computing Beyond Cluster Computing
As the landscape of research computing evolves, the traditional focus on high-performance computing (HPC) clusters is no longer sufficient to meet the diverse and growing needs of researchers. This CaRCC Strategy and Policy call will explore how institutions can broaden their support models to encompass a wider array of computational paradigms, including cloud-native workflows, interactive data science platforms, AI/ML pipelines, edge computing, and domain-specific tools. We will discuss the strategic, organizational, and policy implications of this shift, including workforce development, funding models, partnerships, and the integration of research computing into broader cyberinfrastructure ecosystems. Participants will hear from institutions that are actively expanding their support portfolios and will engage in a community discussion on best practices, challenges, and opportunities for shaping the future of research computing for and beyond the cluster.
Researcher-Facing Track (2nd Thursdays)
No call for December. ‘See you at the CaRCC EOY Party!
Emerging Centers Track (3rd Wednesdays)
No call for December. ‘See you at the CaRCC EOY Party!
Systems-Facing Track (3rd Thursdays)
No call for December. ‘See you at the CaRCC EOY Party!
Additional Community Opportunities
Thu 12/4, 1p ET/ 12p CT/ 11am MT/ 10a PT (1st Thursdays): RCD Mentoring Working Group Monthly Meet-Up. Join us for our December 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.
Tue 12/9, 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.
RCD Workforce Development Interest Group. No call for December. Instead, join us at the CaRCC End-of-Year Party to discuss volunteer opportunities in workforce development. Join the Interest Group mailing list.
Wed 12/10, 2p ET/ 11a PT (2nd Wednesdays): Regulated Research Community of Practice (RRCoP) Community Discussions. This month, the topic will be Wrapping Up 2025: Ask the Assessor LIVE + RRCoP Resource Roundup. We’ll team up with Frazier & Deeter for a live Ask the Assessor segment and revisit highlights from this new offering. We’ll also share a quick tour of RRCoP’s growing library of peer-developed resources, lessons learned, and guides. Please use this Zoom link, and contact info@regulatedresearch.org or Carolyn Ellis with any questions.
Thu 12/4, 1p ET/ 10a PT (4th Thursdays of even months): EDUCAUSE Research Computing and Data Community Group will have its monthly community call on “Building for the Future: Research Computing and Data Workforce Development”. 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.