Publications

Annual Reports

Conference and Journal Publications

Elizabett Hillery, Scott Delinger, James Leous, Lauren Michael, Timothy Middelkoop, David Reddy, Mary Ellen Sloane, and Michael D. Weiner. (2025, July 22). A Collaborative Catalog for Research Computing and Data Professional Development. Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing 2025: The Power of Collaboration (PEARC ’25). https://doi.org/10.1145/3708035.3736050

Sarvani Chadalapaka, Jeffrey Weekley, Emily Jane McTavish, Anna Klimaszewski-Patterson, and Ruth Marinshaw. (2025, July 22). Cultivating Computational Equity: Building a Collaborative Research Computing Community in California’s Central Valley. Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing 2025: The Power of Collaboration (PEARC ’25). https://doi.org/10.1145/3708035.3736054

Anna Alber, Laura Briggs, Paul Brunk, Manasvita Joshi, Atish P Kamble, Amira Kefi, Timothy Middelkoop, Semir Sarajlic, Ana Marija Sokovic, Jeffrey N Valdez, and Ying Zhang. (2025, July 22). AI Project Facilitation Guidance for Research Computing and Data (RCD) Professionals. Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing 2025: The Power of Collaboration (PEARC ’25). https://doi.org/10.1145/3708035.3736061

Tabitha Kripa Samuel, Gary Rogers, Stephen Milton, Anthony Skjellum, Mike Renfro, Corbin Cawood, Mary Ellen Sloane, Justin Oelgoetz, Robert Earl Lowe, Graham McEvily, Nan Wakefield, Rachel Fleming, David Currie, and Lei Qian. (2025, July 22). Creating a Regional Computing Model for Research and Education in Tennessee: Challenges, Experiences, and Benefits Thus Far. Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing 2025: The Power of Collaboration (PEARC ’25). https://doi.org/10.1145/3708035.3736004

Shelley Knuth, Craig Earley, Brandon Reyes, Kyle Reinholt, Jan Mandel, Mitchell McGlaughlin, Jarrod Schiffbauer, and Joel Sharbrough. (2025, July 22). Building the HPC Workforce: RMACC’s Cohort Program for System Administrators. Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing 2025: The Power of Collaboration (PEARC ’25). https://doi.org/10.1145/3708035.3736068

Kirk Anne, Robert Freeman, Chris Reidy, Gabriel King Smith, Gil Speyer, and Wei Yin. (2024, July 22). Membership and Participation in our RCD Communities: What is it and how are we doing? Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing 2024: Human Powered Computing (PEARC ’24). https://doi.org/10.1145/3626203.3670630

John Hicks, Dana Brunson, Sarvani Chadalapaka, Forough Ghahramani, Lauren Michael, and Caroline Carver Weilhamer. (2024, July 23). Kickstarting Research Support at Under-Resourced Institutions: A Starter Guide to Advance Your Self-Assessment of Research Computing and Data Capabilities. Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing 2024: Human Powered Computing (PEARC ’24). https://doi.org/10.1145/3626203.3670572

Gladys Andino, Scott Delinger, Jacob Fosso Tande, Timothy Middelkoop, Claire Mizumoto, David Reddy, and Michael Weiner. (2024, July 23). Onboarding Research Computing and Data Professionals. Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing 2024: Human Powered Computing (PEARC ’24). https://doi.org/10.1145/3626203.3670582

Chaudhry, S., Pazouki, A., Schmitz, P., Hillery, E., & Kee, K. (2022, July 28). Understanding Factors that Influence Research Computing and Data Careers. Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing (PEARC ’22). https://doi.org/10.1145/3491418.3530292. Best Paper, Workforce Development, Training, Diversity, and Education Phil Andrews Award, granted to a manuscript deemed to be the most impactful in practice of research computing.

Maimone, C., Yockel, S., Middelkoop, T., Stauffer, A,, & Reidy, C. (2022, July 26). Characterizing the US Research Computing and Data (RCD) Workforce. Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing (PEARC ’22). https://doi.org/10.1145/3491418.3530289

Schmitz, P., Yockel, S., Mizumoto, C., Cheatham, T., & Brunson, D. (2021). Advancing the Workforce That Supports Computationally and Data Intensive Research. Computing in Science & Engineering, 23(Sept.-Oct. 2021 (2021.05)), 19–27. https://doi.org/10.1109/MCSE.2021.3098421

Schmitz, P. (2021, July 17). Assessing the Landscape of Research Computing and Data Support: The 2020 RCD Capabilities Model Community Dataset. Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing (PEARC ’21). https://doi.org/10.1145/3437359.3465580.  Best Paper Award, Workforce Development, Training, Diversity, and Education.

Schmitz, P., Mizumoto, C., Hicks, J., Brunson, D., Krovitz, G., Bottum, J., Cutcher-Gershenfeld, J., Wetzel, K., & Cheatham, T. (2020, July 26). A Research Computing and Data Capabilities Model for Strategic Decision-Making. Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing (PEARC ’20). https://doi.org/10.1145/3311790.3396643

Broude G., Sharon, Brunson, D., Cheatham, T., Deaton, J., Griffioen, J., Hillegas, C., Jennewein, D., Krovitz, G., Magle, T., Schmitz, P., Tomko, K., & Wilgenbusch, J. (2020, July 26). Fostering Collaboration Among Organizations in the Research Computing and Data Ecosystem. Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing (PEARC ’20) https://doi.org/10.1145/3311790.3396645

Technical Reports

Schmitz, P., Bayrd, V., Strachan, S., & Jacobs, G.. (2022). A Baseline of EPSCoR Research CI Capabilities. (Technical Report RCDNexus-TR-2022.2)

Schmitz, P., Brunson, D., Mizumoto, C., Jennewein, D., & Strachan, S. (2022). Towards a National Best Practices Resource for Research Computing and Data Strategic Planning (Technical Report RCDNexus-TR-2022.1)

Schmitz, P. (2022). 2021 RCD CM Community Data report. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6502962

Schmitz, P. (2020). 2020 RCD CM Community Data report. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4344057

RCD Professionalization Working Group. (2018). Research Computing and Data Professionals Job Elements and Career Guide. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7108947

CaRCC. (2018). Campus Research Computing Stakeholders and Value Propositions. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7108951

Other Reports and Publications

A PDF of the first CaRCC Community Survey, April 2017, Results, and Slides.

Some additional materials (surveys, slide decks, etc.) are available on the Campus Research Computing and Data community on Zenodo.

Recordings of the People Network sessions are available on the CaRCC YouTube channel.