NCSI: NSF 19-534 (Anvil Capacity Cluster)

Status	Completed
Mentor Name	Elizabett Hillery
Mentor's XSEDE Affiliation	NSF 19-534 (Anvil Capacity Cluster)
Mentor Has Been in XSEDE Community	Less than 1 year
Project Title	NSF 19-534 (Anvil Capacity Cluster)
Summary	To deploy the Anvil Capacity cluster to the XSEDE Community
Job Description	A student in this position will primarily be working alongside HPC System Administrators and Data Center Staff assisting them to do hardware and software installation, OS configurations, and other system administration tasks on ITaP Research Computing's resources. Occasional programming/scripting projects (Perl, Python, shell) will be available. The ability to quickly learn new technologies, good written/verbal communication skills is essential. An interest in high performance computing (HPC) and self-motivation is a plus. Experience using Linux/Unix systems in a command-line environment. Familiarity or interest in configuration management tools such as Puppet, Chef, Salt, or Ansible. Familiarity using scripting languages such as Python, Bash, Perl, Ruby or similar.
Computational Resources	The summer student will help bring the Anvil XSEDE resource to life and will work with user adoption by the community
Contribution to Community	It will allow us to further our user facing experience with the upcoming Anvil Grant. This student will have direct contact with early users on the XSEDE resource through the allocation process and ticketing process.
Position Type	Intern
Training Plan	This student will assist the Systems Engineering team in deploying the Anvil cluster. They will learn production deployment techniques, the will also learn the XSEDE community, by helping with initial allocations and tickets coming in.
Student Prerequisites/Conditions/Qualifications	Experience using Linux/Unix systems in a command-line environment. Familiarity or interest in configuration management tools such as Puppet, Chef, Salt, or Ansible.
Duration	Summer
Start Date	06/07/2021
End Date	08/13/2021