Researcher-Facing Track

Do you help researchers using IT tools to further their research goals?
Are you involved in research computing and/or data science training?
Do you consult with researchers on more effectively doing their research with advanced computing resources?
Compute with data?

The Researcher-Facing Track of the People Network brings together people from research computing groups, libraries, research institutes, and other organizations who support researchers in every phase of the research lifecycle. Many of us are also Data- & Systems-Facing, but this track is a community-led opportunity to discuss the practices, perspectives, and experiences of facilitation from any perspective.

Topics include:

• Research computing facilitation
• Outreach to all disciplines, esp. those under-represented, to aid with research computing resources
• Education and training
• The art and practice of facilitation
• Increasing communications, collaborations, and team-building
• Research computing UX and user-facing tech
• And more, as determined by our members!

We connect via monthly calls and an email list. We also invite you to review and contribute to the Leading Practices of Facilitation!

Join Us!

Join Us! Create a membership profile to let us know who you are and what you’re interested in. You can add other People Network Tracks at the same time.

Monthly Calls

Monthly calls are on the second Thursday of the month, 1PM ET/ 12PM CT/ 11AM MT/ 10AM PT. Connection information and links to any materials are distributed via the Researcher-Facing email list.

Upcoming Call(s)

No call in July, see you at PEARC26

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Date:

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The R-F Track Committee is looking for new members as well. Please send us an email if you are interested in supporting our monthly calls – rf-coordinators@carcc.org.

Track Coordination

Track co-Coordinators (rf-coordinators@carcc.org):

• Justin Booth, Senior Manager, Research Cyberinfrastructure, Michigan State University
• Stephen Oglesby, Director of Technology Delivery, Tulane University

Track Committee members:

Previous Calls

6/11/2026	Should Your Institution Host an Open Source LLM?	video doc
5/14/2026	Supporting Research Core Facilities	video doc
4/9/2026	Platform X – Scalable, Sustainable Infrastructure	video doc slides
3/17/2026	Joint Call: Researcher-Facing & RCD Workforce Development Interest Group	video doc slides
2/12/2026	AI-assisted coding tools in Research Computing	video doc
11/13/2025	Montana State University’s Research Alliance: a New Way to Support Research	video doc slides
9/11/2025	Community Discussion on AI Facilitation	No video doc
8/14/2025	Highlights from PEARC25 in O-H-I-O !	No video doc
7/10/2025	Effective Compute Resource Utilization	video doc
5/8/2025	Accessibility in Action: Simplifying Language and Enhancing Web Inclusivity	video doc
2/13/2025	Software Installation Strategies Panel – Joint Call with Systems-Facing Track	No video doc
3/13/2025	Research Security Facilitation, Community Discussion	No video doc
2/13/2025	AlphaFold – what it is an how to support it	video doc Slides Introduction to AlphaFold – Justin Bosch Slides Alphafold & Friends – Martin Cuma Slides Alphafold 3 – Brian Gregor
1/9/2025	Planning for the new year! 2025 call topic	No video doc
11/14/2024	Research Process Automation with Globus	video slides doc
10/10/2024	Ask Your Researcher-Facing Peers: What Are You Doing About Cybersecurity?	No video doc
09/12/2024	Spack: A package manager for supercomputers	video doc
08/15/2024	PEARC ‘24 Recap	doc
06/13/2024	ACCESS Pegasus – A hosted workflow system for ACCESS users	slides doc
05/09/2024	Open On Demand: Improvements and Recent developments	video doc
04/11/2024	Generative Artificial Intelligence Tools: A Panel Discussion	video doc
03/14/2024	The Open Science Pool (OSPool) and OSG Services	video doc
02/08/2024	JetStream2 – Researcher-Facing Resources and Support.	video doc
01/12/2024	What’s Cool in 2024	video doc
11/09/2023	Exploring the Frontiers of CyberGIS and Geospatial Data Science	video doc slides
10/12/2023	Amazon Lightsail for Research	video doc slides
09/14/2023	Supporting Humanities Researchers: Roadblocks and Opportunities	video doc slides
08/11/2023	Evolution of Containers for HPC	video doc slides
06/08/2023	ACCESS Allocation Services: National cyberinfrastructure for research, development, and education	no video doc slides
05/11/2023	Current Research on Accessible Computing	video doc
03/9/2023	STRIDES, Cloud Service Program at The National Institute of Health	video doc slides
02/08/2023	ACCESS Support Empowers Your Needs	video doc slides
01/12/2023	What’s hot in 2023?	video doc slides
11/10/2022	Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer	video doc
10/13/2022	Research data storage	video doc slides
09/08/2022	Inter-institutional collaboration	video doc slides
08/11/2022	Highlights from PEARC22	video doc slides
06/09/2022	Supporting researchers with the NIH Data Management and Sharing Plan Requirement	video doc slides
04/14/2022	Supporting Research Data Management	video doc slides
03/10/2022	Part 2: Sensitive Data in Research Computing – Through Cloud Services	video doc slides
02/10/2022	Sensitive Data in Research Computing – HIPAA support at the University of Utah	video doc slides
01/13/2022	Saying No! When, Why, and How to Say No to Researchers	video doc slides
12/09/2021	CaRCC/People Network End-of-Year Party	doc
11/11/2021	Supporting GPU computing	video doc slides
10/14/2021	Series on Leading Practices of Facilitation: Part 2: Improving our People-Facing Skills: Revisiting the Leading Practices of Facilitation	video doc slides
09/09/2021	Bridging the Gap: Reaching Underrepresented Research Domains for Large-Scale Computing	video doc slides
07/08/2021	Building Teams with Graduate Student Research Facilitators	video doc
06/10/2021	No call. Virtual Residency week
05/13/2021	Workflow Tools for Portable, Reproducible Data Analysis	video – recording starts mid-call due to problems at the start doc slides
04/08/2021	On Measuring the Impact of Training	video doc slides
03/11/2021	All About Orienting Researchers to Research Computing + Data Resources	video doc
02/11/2021	Supporting Researchers with Containers	video doc slides
01/14/2021	All About CaRCC (… beyond the R-F Track)	video doc
11/12/20	CaRCC End-Of-Year Party	doc
11/12/2020	Profiling and Optimizing R Code in Your Workloads	video doc slides
10/08/2020	Writing More Equitable Job Postings	video doc slides
09/10/2020	Supporting research projects on the cloud	video unavailable doc slides
07/09/2020	Big Data, Big Compute Solutions, a Community Discussion	video doc slides
05/14/2020	Remote Support (cont’d): Working with Your Team Remotely	video doc
04/09/2020	Sharing Good Practices in Remote User Support & Training	video doc
03/12/2020	User Support via Ask.CI and Locales	video doc
02/13/2020	Doing it in public: User support via Slack, open forums, Github repos and blogs	video doc
01/09/2020	Handling Support Requests – A Community Discussion	video doc
12/12/2019	University of Missouri reports and Researcher Facing/CI-Engineer Metrics	video doc
11/14/2019	Open OnDemand User Experiences & Challenges	video doc
10/10/2019	An Expansion of User Support Services for the Research Computing Group at the University of Colorado Boulder	video slides doc
09/12/2019	A Startup Framework for Building Digital Research Capacity and Community at UCLA	doc slides
08/08/2019	PEARC19 recap!	doc
07/11/2019	Creating effective training materials	doc
06/13/2019	Lightning talks / Open mic sessions on track topics	doc slides