Mark your calendars for these upcoming CaRCC community gatherings. 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 Newcomer Welcome and Orientation
April 14, 2026 3p ET / 2p CT / 1p MT / 12p PT
(Second Tuesday of each even-numbered month)
Whether you’re new to CaRCC or looking to learn more and get more involved, join us on the first Tuesday of the even months at 3pm ET / 2pm CT / 1pm MT / 12pm PT for a welcome session and overview of CaRCC groups, tracks, events, and volunteer opportunities. We love meeting our newcomers, and everyone is welcome! Register now for call details!
CaRCC People Network Calls
Data-Facing Track (1st Tuesdays)
Tue April 07, 1p ET/ 12p CT/ 11a MT/ 10a PT
Accessible Research Data, Kristin Briney – The U.S. The Department of Justice issued updated guidance to the Americans with Disabilities Act, going into effect in April 2026 or 2027, that applies to state and local governments. This means public universities must now make all of their online content and technologies accessible. These new guidelines probably also apply to research, including research data. This talk reviews why accessibility matters to research data, the current state of accessibility of research data, resources for making data accessible, and possible next steps you can take in this area.
Strategy and Policy-Facing Track (1st Wednesdays)
Wed April 01, 12p ET / 11a CT / 10a MT / 9a PT
CASC and NAIRR meetings recap, community discussion
We will hear from colleagues who attended either the CASC (Coalition for Academic Scientific Computation) Spring Meeting or the NAIRR (National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource) Annual Meeting. We have invited a few speakers to give brief summaries to highlight key content, themes, and notable discussions from these events. Both meetings cover topics that are important to our community, and attendance at each is somewhat limited. This session will give us an opportunity to share insights, compare perspectives, and discuss what attendees learned.
Researcher-Facing Track (2nd Thursdays)
Thu April 9th, 1p ET/ 12p CT/ 11a MT/ 10a PT
Platform X – Scalable, Sustainable Infrastructure, Mike Collins, Senior IT Director, University of Wisconsin- As the demand for restricted data enclaves and longitudinal analysis environments grows, institutions must move beyond bespoke setups toward scalable, sustainable infrastructure. In this presentation, we introduce Platform X, the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health’s secure data enclave. We will discuss how we address the unique challenges of long-running research platforms – including automated security governance, cost-optimization in the cloud, and maintaining a seamless user experience – while ensuring the environment remains a continuously available service for the researchers who depend on it.
Emerging Centers Track (3rd Wednesdays)
Wed April 15th, 12p ET/ 11a CT/ 10a MT/ 9a PT/ 7a HT
RCD Origin Stories #2: Mike Renfro Mike Renfro (Director), Sharon Colson (Senior Research Technology Engineer), et al, Research Computing Data, Information Technology Services, Tennessee Tech University – Our second installment of the CaRCC Emerging Centers Track RCD Origin Stories series features Mike Renfro, Sharon Colson, and others from Tennessee Tech University’s Research Computing and Data division. This series, which emerged from discussions started at our PEARC24 Emerging Centers Birds of a Feather (BoF), will build a library of stories about how individual emerging RCD centers got their start, their challenges as they became more established, and how they sustain themselves. As this library grows, the intent is that the community will be able to find common best practices for building and sustaining RCD centers across these origin stories.
Systems-Facing Track (3rd Thursdays)
Thu April 16th, 1p ET/ 12p CT/ 11a MT/ 10a PT
Floating Point Precision in Modern GPU Infrastructure: Practical Considerations for HPC Architecture and Procurement; Presentation; Aaron Jezghani, PhD, Associate Director, Platform & Architecture and Scheduler Architect, PACE, Georgia Tech; Will Powell, Research Technologist, College of Computing, Georgia Tech – With the emergence of new GPU architectures, those building or refreshing HPC systems are facing additional decision-making around platform selection. Previous assumptions that the latest hardware will always be the best choice are being challenged by floating point precision, with some newer GPU models performing more poorly than older ones for certain workloads. This talk will offer a practical overview of precision across modern accelerator environments and how these factors affect both system architecture and procurement strategy. This presentation will draw on Georgia Tech’s experience both experimenting with emerging architectures and deploying reliable, highly scalable HPC systems for its research community.
Additional Community Opportunities
RCD Capabilities Model Office Hours: Tue Apr 14, 1p ET/ 10a PT (2nd Tuesdays): 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 Mentoring Working Group Monthly Meet-Up: Thu Apr 2, 1p ET/ 12p CT/ 11am MT/ 10a PT (1st Thursdays). Join us for our RCD Mentoring Working Group session as we continue building out our mentorship program! This month we’ll continue to have breakout conversations around the three teams developing the program: the applications process, mentor details, and mentee details. 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.
RCD Workforce Development Interest Group: Tue Apr 14, 2p ET/ 1p CT/ 12p MT/ 11a PT (2nd Tuesdays): Using AI in the Research Computing & Data (RCD) Workforce. – This session will be a structured, interactive discussion focused on how AI is being used and could be used in research computing and data roles across academia, labs, and industry. The facilitators will open with a concrete use case to frame the conversation, followed by guided discussion among participants. The goal is to surface practical applications, workforce implications, and shared challenges, while learning from the experiences and ideas of the group.See Zoom details below. Join the Interest Group mailing list.
AI Facilitation Interest Group Monthly Gathering: Wed Apr 8, 1p ET/ 10a PT (2nd Wednesdays): Meeting coordinates: Zoom Session URL. – This month, we are pleased to welcome a special guest, Henry Neeman, who will talk about “The OneOklahoma Cyberinfrastructure Initiative – AI Consultants Program.” Join here: https://carcc.org/ai-facilitation-ig/ Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly crucial to an ever-broadening array of disciplines and applications. To address this need, the University of Oklahoma is creating a pipeline of AI consultants, both professional and student, to boost AI expertise and to enable access to AI resources for researchers who might otherwise not utilize AI. An initial cohort of over ninety research teams from nine Oklahoma institutions will be recipients of project consulting, including from three PhD-granting universities and four masters-granting universities. The outcomes of the project will ultimately support thousands of researchers nationwide — undergraduates, graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, staff, and faculty — who need this capability. We invite you to join us for an informative session by the NSF Project’s Principal Investigator, Henry Neeman, Ph.D.
Quantum Computing Interest Group Monthly Gathering. Wed, April 29, 12p ET/ 9a PT (final Wednesdays) Meeting coordinates: Zoom session URL.
Regulated Research Community of Practice (RRCoP) Community Webinars. Wed April 8th, 2p ET/ 11a PT (2nd Wednesdays): This month, the topic will be A Journey of Developing Security Guidance for High-Performance Computing (HPC) with Yang Guo of NIST. Please use this Zoom link, and contact info@regulatedresearch.org or Carolyn Ellis with any questions.
US Research Software EngineersMonthly Community Call. Thu Apr 14, 12p ET/ 9a PT (2nd Thursdays) This month’s topic is Legacy Code: Horrors and Successes. See https://us-rse.org/calendar/ for more information.
EDUCAUSE Research Computing and Data Community Group Monthly Community Call. Thu Apr 23, 1p ET/ 10a PT (4th Thursdays of even months): 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.
CaRCC and the People Network
If you have received this email NOT via CaRCC’s People Network, and you would like to join the People Network, which includes the above tracks, you can join here and join our Slack channels!
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.