[WSSSPE] Call for Submissions: RSE-HPC-2020 (Research Software Engineers in HPC)

[Ferenbaugh, Charles]

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Call for Submissions
Research Software Engineers in HPC: Creating Community, Building Careers, Addressing Challenges
(RSE-HPC-2020)

To be held in conjunction with SC20, Atlanta, GA - Monday, November 16, 2020


Research software engineers (RSEs) are critical to the impact of HPC, data science, and the larger scientific community.   They have existed for decades, though often not under that name. However, the past few years have seen the development of the RSE concept, common job titles, and career paths; the creation of professional networks to connect RSEs; and the emergence of RSE groups at universities, national laboratories, and industry.

This workshop will bring together RSEs and allies involved in HPC, from all over the world, to grow the RSE community by establishing and strengthening professional networks of current RSEs and RSE leaders. We’ll discuss the current activities and plans of national RSE organizations, discuss the needs of RSEs and RSE groups, and write a report on ways RSE organizations can help address these.

Most of the workshop time will be spent in interactive discussions, preceded by a keynote address and several shorter talks to establish context.

Submissions

We encourage prospective participants to submit position papers (limit of 2 pages, not counting references; no format prescribed) on topics related to RSE issues, including (but not limited to):

  *   Career paths:  how do RSEs want to be hired, promoted and evaluated?

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Building RSE organizations:  how to find RSEs in your country/region and how to motivate them to join the network and engage?
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Supporting RSE organizations:  what can be done to help RSEs (and those supporting RSEs) at international, national, regional, and local levels?
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Making the business case for RSEs and RSE groups:  evidence, case studies, tactics?
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How do we want funders to support RSE roles and activities?
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Building in RSE requirements as part of wider research infrastructure
  *   Providing mentoring and training for RSEs

Some submitters will be invited to present their papers at the workshop as lightning talks or to participate as panelists where appropriate.

We also welcome proposals for discussion topics.  Proposals should consist of a short paragraph describing a problem or issue relevant to RSEs that could be useful to discuss in the workshop.  Some of these proposals will be chosen to guide the two discussion sessions in the program.

The deadline for submissions is Friday, August 14, 2020, at 11:59 PM AoE (UTC-12).  For more details on the submission process, see the workshop website at:  https://us-rse.org/rse-hpc-2020/call/

Timeline

  *   Submissions open:  Monday, June 29, 2020

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Submissions due:  Friday, August 14, 2020
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Notifications sent:  Friday, September 11, 2020
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Program finalized:  Friday, October 2, 2020
  *   Workshop date:  Monday, November 16, 2020

Organizing Committee

  *   Charles Ferenbaugh, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA

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Sandra Gesing, University of Notre Dame, USA
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Simon Hettrick, Software Sustainability Institute, UK
  *   Daniel S. Katz, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA

For more information

See the workshop website:  https://us-rse.org/rse-hpc-2020/

Or contact the organizers:  sc-ws-rse-hpc at info.supercomputing.org<mailto:sc-ws-rse-hpc at info.supercomputing.org>

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Charles R. Ferenbaugh, Ph.D.
CCS-7 - Applied Computer Science
Los Alamos National Laboratory, MS T087
Los Alamos, NM 87545
505-665-7045 / cferenba at lanl.gov<mailto:cferenba at lanl.gov>
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