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Evaluation Report for PEARC26: Resilient Roots + Empowered Communities
(Indiana University, 2026-10-06) Wernert, Julie A.
This report presents the external evaluation of PEARC26, drawing on multiple assessment streams including the General Conference, Tutorials and Workshops, Student Program, Protégé-Mentor Program, Exhibitor Program, and two focus groups. The evaluation examines participant experience, professional and educational value, networking and community engagement, student integration and workforce development, mentoring, exhibitor engagement, submission and review processes, scheduling, accessibility, and conference logistics. Findings indicate strong overall value across major constituencies, with community, networking, applied learning, and workforce-development pathways emerging as consistent strengths. The report also identifies targeted opportunities for refinement related to program density, technical readiness, mentoring structure, affordability, reviewer consistency, and selected workflow and communication processes. Cross-cutting findings and recommendations are supported by a synthesis matrix linking evidence across assessment populations. The report also documents examples of PEARC’s use of prior evaluation findings to inform programmatic changes and subsequent reassessment, illustrating an ongoing evaluation-to-action cycle.
Summary Report for the Virtual Hands-On Training on Anvil, Containers, and AI Workflows Workshop
(Indiana University, 2026) Cong Gian, Indiana University; Bithi De, Purdue University; Sumanta Chatterjee, Mississippi State University; Eric Collins, Mississippi State University; Treven Knight, Mississippi State University; Jasmine Sahota, Mississippi State University
This report details the NAIRR training workshop on practical HPC workflows for both classical physics-based models and emerging AI-driven weather modeling workflows presented in July 2026. The workshop uses Purdue’s Anvil system as the primary instructional platform and combines cluster onboarding, MPI-aware HPC usage, comparative Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) and Pangu-Weather demonstrations, and portable container/Conda-based AI workflow design. Blending short lectures, guided demonstrations and follow-along activities on Anvil, this workshop offers a guided introduction to how scientific applications are prepared, executed, compared, and made portable across HPC systems. Although the examples will center on weather modeling, the workflow lessons are designed to generalize across a broader range of computational science domains. The report includes a link to the workshop recording. Slides from the workshop are also included in this repository.
Evaluation Report for the 2025 Cyberinfrastructure Leadership Academy
(Indiana University, 2025-04-28) Wernert, Julie A.
The report presents findings from the 2025 Cyberinfrastructure Leadership Academy (CILA) co-located with the March 2025 Coalition for Academic Scientific Computing (CASC) Spring Meeting.
Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing (PEARC25) Evaluation Report
(Indiana University, 2025) Wernert, Julie A.; Miles, Tonya
The ninth annual Practice & Experience in Advanced Research Computing (PEARC) conference, highlighting the Power of Collaboration, was held July 20–July 24, 2025, in Columbus, Ohio. The PEARC conference series is a community-driven effort built on the successes of the past, with the aim to grow and increase inclusivity by involving additional local, regional, national, and international cyberinfrastructure and research computing partners spanning academia, government, and industry. The PEARC Conference Series works to integrate and meet the collective interests of the growing Research Computing and Data (RCD) community by providing a forum for discussing challenges, opportunities, and solutions among its broad range of participants. This report details findings and recommendations from an extensive evaluation of the PEARC25 conference experience, including its student, exhibitor, technical, and protege-mentor programs.
Universities in the USA announcing annual budget deficits of more than US $10M in Calendar Years 2023-2025
(Indiana University, 2025-12-15) Snapp-Childs, Winona G.; Hancock, David Y.; Smith, Preston M.; Towns, John; Stewart, Craig A.
There have been made several general statements that universities in the US are under significant financial strain. Below is an alphabetical list of more than 12 universities in the United States that announced a budget deficit of $10M or more during calendar years 2023 through 2025. That is, more than one announcement of a large budget deficit per quarter. Several of the links below direct news media outlets with articles that may not be permanently available online.
Overview of best practices for quantitative analysis of economic and academic benefits of research-enabling facilities
(Indiana University, 2025-12-10) Snapp-Childs, Winona G.; Hancock, David Y.; Smith, Preston M.; Towns, John; Stewart, Craig A.
This report provides an overview of best practices regarding quantitative analyses of the economic and academic benefits of research-enabling facilities, and a few comments about potential pitfalls. A defining characteristic of research-enabling facilities is that they provide some sort of service to a group of researchers who are treated more as clients than as collaborators. This brief overview summarizes the contents of a suite of papers regarding quantitative and qualitative methods for interrogating the Return on Investment (ROI) in research-enabling facilities in financial and other terms. Among the reports analyzed in pursuing the issue of assessment of research-enabling facilities, it is possible to discern five different types of quantitative assessments of return on investment. This report also discusses best practices in depiction of return on investment analyses and utility evaluation generally for research-enabling facilities. All of these best practices are applicable to research institutions at larger scales.
EVALUATION OF THE 2025 INTERNATIONAL HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING SUMMER SCHOOL (IHPCSS)
(Indiana University, 2025-11-11) Wernert, Julie A.; Miles, Tonya A.
The 2025 International High Performance Computing Summer School was held July 6 – July 11 in Lisbon, Portugal. The summer school is sponsored by HPC SPECTRA, Pawsey, DRAC, R- CCS, the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, the University of Texas at Austin, NICIS CHPC, NITheCS, and EPCC. The Summer School brings together the brightest students in computational sciences and endeavors to familiarize them with the state-of-the-art aspects of HPC and Big Data Analytics for scientific disciplines, catalyze the formation of professional networks, provide advanced mentoring, facilitate international exchange, and open up further career options. This report summarizes results from the 2025 IHPCSS evaluation activities.
Interview responses of hiring managers regarding economic value of HPC experience for new STEM professionals
(Indiana University, 2023) Snapp-Childs, Winona G.; Costa, Claudia; Olds, Daniel; Snell, Addison; Wernert, Julie A.; Stewart, Craig A.
Interview responses of hiring managers regarding economic value of HPC experience for new STEM professionals
Survey instrument: new hire evaluation for scientific and engineering roles
(Indiana University, 2023) Snell, Addison; Snapp-Childs, Winona G; Olds, Daniel
The aim of this survey is to explore the decision factors that affect how new hires are made in science and engineering roles, and how those factors influence professional development and advancement within your organization. The results of the survey will help inform future candidates about the characteristics that are most valuable to employers, and therefore to their hiring and their careers. For the purposes of this survey, “new hire” refers either to new graduates (with undergraduate or post-graduate degrees) or candidates with less than two years of professional experience after receiving their degree. This survey focuses on scientific and engineering roles other than computer science, although we do ask about the relative importance of technical computing skills as one possible characteristic of hiring. This survey was conducted by Intersect360 Research in partnership with Indiana University under a grant through the National Science Foundation. For more information about Intersect360 Research or this grant, please inquire to info@intersect360.com (mailto:info@intersect360.com).
Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing (PEARC24) Evaluation Report
(Indiana University, 2024-11-07) Wernert, Julie A.; Miles, Tonya A.
The eighth annual Practice & Experience in Advanced Research Computing (PEARC) conference, highlighting Human Powered Computing, was held July 21–July 25, 2024, in Providence, Rhode Island. The PEARC conference series is a community-driven effort built on the successes of the past, with the aim to grow and increase inclusivity by involving additional local, regional, national, and international cyberinfrastructure and research computing partners spanning academia, government, and industry. The PEARC Conference Series works to integrate and meet the collective interests of the growing Research Computing and Data (RCD) community by providing a forum for discussing challenges, opportunities, and solutions among its broad range of participants. PEARC Conferences are organized by a group of dedicated volunteers from the community, with oversight by a Steering Committee comprised of a diverse cohort of community members and are sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society. This report summarizes results from the PEARC24 evaluation activities.
Evaluation of the 2019 International High Performance Computing Summer School (IHPCSS)
(2019-09-27) Lorna Rivera; Lizanne DeStefano
Findings and recommendations from the evaluation of the 2019 International High Performance Computing Summer School (Kobe, Japan)
Evaluation of the 2017 International High Performance Computing Summer School (IHPCSS)
(2017) Lorna Rivera
Findings from the evaluation of the 2017 International High Performance Computing Summer School (Boulder, Colorado, US
Evaluation of the 2016 International High Performance Computing Summer School (IHPCSS)
(2016-11-13) Lorna Rivera
Findings and recommendations from the evaluation of the 2019 International High Performance Computing Summer School (Ljubljana, Slovenia)
Evaluation of the 2018 International High Performance Computing Summer School (IHPCSS)
(2018-10-24) Lorna Rivera; Lizanne DeStefano
Findings and recommendations from the evaluation of the 2018 International High Performance Computing Summer School (Ostrava, Czech Republic)
Evaluation of the 2021 International High Performance Computing Summer School (IHPCSS)
(2022-03-10) Tonya Miles; Lizanne DeStefano
The evaluation of the 2021 International High-Performane Computing Summer School (IHPCSS) used several surveys to assess students’ entry characteristics and expectations (Pre-event Survey), their progress during the Summer School (three mid-point check-ins), their perceptions upon exit from the Summer School (Post-event survey), and the experience of the Summer School Mentors (Mentor Post-event Survey). The results of the mid-point check-in surveys were distributed to organizers during the Summer School to guide program management in real-time and will not be discussed here. Results of the Pre-event Survey, Post-event Survey, and Mentor Post-event Survey are presented here.
EVALUATION OF THE 2022 INTERNATIONAL HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING SUMMER SCHOOL (IHPCSS)
(2022-09) Tonya Miles; Julie Wernert; Lizanne DeStefano
The 2022 International High Performance Computing Summer School was held from June 19–24, 2022, in Athens, Greece. The summer school series is sponsored by PRACE, XSEDE (the eXtreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment), the RIKEN Center for Computational Science (R-CCS) and the SciNet HPC Consortium. The Summer School recruits the brightest students in computational sciences and endeavors to familiarize them with the state-of-the-art aspects of HPC and Big Data Analytics for scientific disciplines, catalyze the formation of professional networks, provide advanced mentoring, facilitate international exchange, and open up further career options. This report summarizes results from the 2022 IHPCSS evaluation activities.
EVALUATION OF THE 2023 INTERNATIONAL HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING SUMMER SCHOOL (IHPCSS)
(2023-08) Tonya Miles; Julie Wernert; Lizanne DeStefano
The 2023 International High Performance Computing Summer School was held July 9 – July 14 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. The summer school is sponsored by the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE), the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE), the RIKEN Center for Computational Science (R-CCS), the Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre (Pawsey), and the SciNet HPC Consortium. The Summer School recruits the brightest students in computational sciences and endeavors to familiarize them with the state-of-the-art aspects of HPC and Big Data Analytics for scientific disciplines, catalyze the formation of professional networks, provide advanced mentoring, facilitate international exchange, and open up further career options. This report summarizes results from the 2023 IHPCSS evaluation activities.
Practice & Experience in Advanced Research Computing (PEARC23) Evaluation Report
(Indiana University, 2023-09) Wernert, Julie; DeStefano, Lizanne
The PEARC23 conference, Computing for the Common Good, was held July 23 –July 27 , 2023. The seventh annual Practice & Experience in Advanced Research Computing (PEARC) conference acknowledges rapid shifts that have become a constant in the field of advanced computing; the PEARC community’s role in creating new, state-of-the-art methods; and our imperative, as individuals, to achieve an ethical and connected computing future. This report summarizes results from the PEARC23 evaluation activities.
AI and computing: Local tools @IU, some global challenges
(2019-09-11) Michael, Scott; Stewart, Craig A.
Survey of CASC Members on the Role of Industrial Programs in High Performance Computing Center Sustainability
(2010-04-25) Modi, Jigar; Schwenker, Andrew; Sinha, Rohit; Tolly, Michael
The Pervasive Technology Institute at Indiana University has engaged a team of graduate students to conduct a survey of Coalition for Academic Scientific Computation members to ascertain the status of their industrial partnership programs and determine what general features are consistent across members.

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