January 27, 1999

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• January 27, 1999

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Leadership Team Meeting

• Toward FY00 Program Plan
• Context
• EOT-PACI Structure
• FY00 planning process
• Issues/question for team leaders
• Information Items
• Discussion with NSF guests

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Context

• Site Review Comments
• Review Goals
• FY00 Program Changes
• Coherence/Connection/Impact/Evaluation
• New Affiliation and Partners
• Sunset projects

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EOT Teams Recommendations From Alliance Site
Visit Report

• The Expertise and Track Records of the EOT
  Leadership are Outstanding
• Roscoe Giles, Greg Moses, and Richard Tapia
• It is Both Logical and Desirable for the EOT
  Teams to Take Advantage of Existing Programs
• The Five Focus Areas Defined for EOT Provide Good
  Initial Coverage of Relevant and Related Areas
• Creation and Adoption of Evaluation Metrics

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Some 5 Year Goals

• Leverage EOT efforts across PACI
• Every AT/ET/PACS team involved in EOT
• Systematic evaluation, dissemination, scaling of
  programs
• UD/DA reflected in all technologies
• Develop 5 year plan for increasing diversity
• Assess diversity now
• Create Strategic Partnerships beyond PACI

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EOT-PACI Structure

• Review structure document
• see handout
• Discuss role of LESs
• Link to thrust areas
• Anchors
• shared/complementary activities

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FY00 Planning Process

• Role of Team Leaders
• Timeline
• July 1 due date
• April meeting
• Team plans in March
• Evaluation/Metrics in February

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Discussion with team leaders

• Project Updates and support
• what is plan for writing proposal?
• Past plan involved PI scope of works,team
  leaders bubble up, lead team coalescing
• suggested changescloser relationship to Lead
  team in development of scopes of work,
• detailing of responsibilities for Lead Team,
  Program Managers,
• Team Leaders for development of PPP for FY00

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Questions for Team Leaders

• How are we doing?
• reporting- mechanisms
• working with LES-happening or not
• national audience impact ie dissemination
• What do we need from the LES?
• Are we using what exists anchors?

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Metrics

• See handout!
• Some messages for teams
• Strategic Planning Performance
• Interlinking of projects
• links to thrust areas
• LES interaction
• Leverage across projects
• Impact counting

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Information / Discussion

• Alliance 3 Imperatives
• High End Computing
• grid
• User Environments
• I-Force
• RCGs presentation to alliance EC
• Role of NPACI/EOT-PACI

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The Three FY99 Alliance Technology Imperatives

• Increase Capability Computing
• Get Back on the High-End Growth Curve at the LES
• Applications on Clusters of DSM and Dedicated
  DSMs
• Applications on NT Supercluster
• Compare NT and Linux
• Build the Grid
• Computational Grid-PACS National Machine Room
• Access Grid-Linking Desktops and ACCESS centers
• Extending the Grid-MREN, Southern X-roads, Great
  Plains
• Create a Post-Web Computing Environment
• Discipline or Team Specific Portals
• A Generic Workbench Infrastructure
• An Object or Distributed Component Software
  Foundation

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Alliance I-Force Report

• presented byRoscoe Giles

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Inclusion Long Range Goals

• Increase participation of women and minorities in
  senior position in the Alliance.
• Increase effectiveness of women and minorities in
  the computational/computer science community.
• Evaluate / Document status and progress.

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EC Inclusion Objectives

• Participation level of W/M should be at least at
  the level of the fields by FY00.
• 12-20 W/M on EC and among PIs
• at least 1 / team
• Every Year The Alliance Should Report on ET AT
  Teams
• s For PIs (All, Women, Minority) PIs
• s and Numbers For Non-PI Research Staff (All,
  Women, Minority)
• Numbers of (All, Women, Minority) Post-docs

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Inclusion Strategies Teams

• Teams identify and recruit womenand minority
  colleagues.
• Teams plan / develop / report on their strategies
• Off-cycle opportunity funds??

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Inclusion Strategies Alliance

• Partnerships with Minority Serving Institutions
• Connections to the Grid
• HBCU partnerships
• LES Anchor Allison Clark
• Collaboration with NPACI

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Science/Math Indicators Women
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Science/Math Indicators Minority
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Taulbee 97
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Site Visit Slides
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Touching the Future

• The mission of EOT-PACI is to ensure that all
  citizens may make productive use of emerging
  computing technologies to advance their ability
  to understand and solve problems in education,
  science, business, government, and society.

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Schema

• Linking
• Seeds
• Harvest
• Growing
• .. Impact

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Five key focus areas in EOT PACI

• Education
• Support a national level systemic impact on CSE
  education.
• Access and Inclusion
• Increase participation and success of women,
  minorities and people with disabilities in CSE
  and in PACI.

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Five key focus areas... (cont)

• Government and New Communities
• Broaden the application base of the nations HPCC
  infrastructure.
• Learning Technologies
• Develop, apply, and assess computational tools
  that enhance learning.
• Evaluation
• Provide for ongoing, external evaluation of our
  education/outreach efforts.

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Joint EOT PACI is a Success Story

• NSF Mandated in cooperative agreements
• Interactions
• Four joint meetings April 1997-July 1998
• Bi-weekly steering team focus area conference
  calls
• LES support (9 full time staff _at_ NCSA)
• Joint EOT PACI
• management structure
• PACI-wide REU program
• intranet web site
• public web site (http//www.eot.org)

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Some 5 Year Goals

• Leverage EOT efforts across PACI
• Every AT/ET/PACS team involved in EOT
• Systematic evaluation, dissemination, scaling of
  programs
• UD/DA reflected in all technologies
• Develop 5 year plan for increasing diversity
• Assess diversity now
• Create Strategic Partnerships beyond PACI