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REMINDER: CELS Coffee Time is today from 2:00-3:00
by Werner, Janet M. 30 Sep '20

30 Sep '20

Hello, This is a friendly reminder of the CELS Coffee Time, today, Wednesday, at 2pm – 3pm. The speaker for today is John Low and the title of his talk is “DFT is good Schtuff! In spite of what you might have heard". Participate by using John’s Blue Jean info: https://bluejeans.com/958313106 Thank You, Janet Werner Mathematics & Computer Science Division of Argonne National Laboratory (630) 252-3050 jwerner(a)anl.gov<mailto:[email protected]> -- Computing mailing list Computing(a)anl.gov https://lists.cels.anl.gov/mailman/listinfo/computing

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CPS Virtual Happy Hour
by CPS Division Office 24 Sep '20

24 Sep '20

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CPS Virtual Happy Hour
by CPS Division Office 24 Sep '20

24 Sep '20

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REMINDER: CELS Coffee Time is today from 2:00-3:00
by Werner, Janet M. 23 Sep '20

23 Sep '20

Hello, This is a friendly reminder of the CELS Coffee Time, today, Wednesday, at 2pm – 3pm. The speaker for today is Kate Keahey and the title of her talk is “Chameleon: Changing the Way We Share". Participate by using Kate’s Blue Jean info: https://argonne.bluejeans.com/517904828 Janet Werner Mathematics & Computer Science Division of Argonne National Laboratory (630) 252-3050 jwerner(a)anl.gov<mailto:[email protected]> -- Computing mailing list Computing(a)anl.gov https://lists.cels.anl.gov/mailman/listinfo/computing

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CPS publications
by Habib, Salman 18 Sep '20

18 Sep '20

Hi Everyone, Thanks to a heads-up from Rajeev, it turns out that the what's listed in the spreadsheet is actually: "a list of publications where there are outstanding issues and action is required by your division personnel: * Article is published but not submitted to PANDA * Article is published but an accepted manuscript was not submitted to PANDA" as further clarified by Yvete Woell. So apologies for hitting the panic button! But I am still curious if their list is complete -- so no harm completing the Basecamp doc. Best Salman PS I got thrown off by the following: "Attached is the list of peer reviewed publications authored by Argonne authors for the current fiscal year according to the Web of Science." Must learn to extrapolate less ;-).

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Re: CPS publications
by Habib, Salman 18 Sep '20

18 Sep '20

The Basecamp doc is just to record our publications as an objective statement of fact. Nothing more, nothing less. All of this is completely unrelated to performance assessments. The Lab is graded on their reporting of publications to OSTI, that is essentially why PANDA exists. The WoS thing is largely irrelevant in my opinion. But we do need to track our own publications. Salman On 9/18/20 11:49 AM, Vazquez Mayagoitia, Alvaro wrote: Hi Salman I have some thoughts that may add to your list of possible explanations: -One difference between PANDA report and WoS is that the last is not taking papers that are under review or pre-prints. Yes, those papers may not be accepted yet, but I am sure that our rate of success is very high and the PANDA entries reflect what papers were made in a given FY. In some cases, some journals are super slow publishing. However, every PANDA entry has an attached draft which in principle passed some quality control. -In my POV, it is not fair how WoS is taking in account the total production of our division. Let us say 2 people in the division are in the same 2 papers, if we take individual PANDA reports we would get 4 papers, but WoS reports only 2. In my opinion, we should take the sum of individuals. We should define the metric. -WoS is taking calendar years, whereas PANDA reports are by FY. -In my case I suffer of systematic misses in the records because my first and last names have weird characters or too complicated for web 2.0, and it is not trivial to claim papers in WoS. The opposite is also true, I have coworkes with h-index 65 or more , when they just finished the phd 3 years ago. [similar argument in PANDA, there are 2 or 3 Alvaros] -WoS does not take in account DOE technical reports and similar production, right? Were we can find more about PEMP requirements, and why is this important? This is the first time I hear of that. What we traditionally do for the performance appraisal is to attach a PANDA FY report, is that perfect and reflects our work? maybe not... but this is what we have now 2 weeks before the FY ends. I agree, the situation is not only 'patently ridiculous', but also complicated for everyone (a ultra fast pandemia, canceled conferences, difficulty hiring new talent, less computing resources at ANL and therefore less projects, mixed information of Aurora deployment, etc) and I am almost sure that our publications had suffered an impact too. And it is not clear to me how far this impact will go. I wish we can take this basecamp document just to provide upper management to get a perspective of what we have done and have a metric for what our annual production is, and do not use this as a wall of shame for those with less papers this year. Needless to say, we should price quality over quantity. All the best, -Álvaro Vázquez-Mayagoitia, PhD Computational Scientist - R&D Chemistry and Materials Science Argonne National Laboratory https://web.alcf.anl.gov/~vama/ ________________________________ From: cps-employees <cps-employees-bounces(a)lists.anl.gov><mailto:[email protected]> on behalf of Habib, Salman <habib(a)anl.gov><mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2020 9:17 PM To: cps-all(a)anl.gov<mailto:[email protected]> <cps-all(a)anl.gov><mailto:[email protected]> Subject: CPS publications Hi Everyone, I just got a listing of all the peer reviewed publications from CPS for the last fiscal year (as found in Web of Science), see attached. This is from a reporting exercise carried out by the library that is part of the annual Argonne PEMP requirements. How can it be that the entire Division only had 7 papers in one year? Something must be wrong! 1. It could be that the paper was counted with some other Division as the primary. 2. Or your papers are just missing because the WoS search is highly incomplete (true in my case). Samantha, can you check this listing against our PANDA records? We have until October 31 to fix this. We really need to have our own records of what we are publishing, the current situation is patently ridiculous. Please check to see which of your publications are missing and let's collect them. I have started a document in the CPS Basecamp for the PEMP reporting: https://3.basecamp.com/3115476/buckets/11926740/documents/3033452659 A good target date to have the info completed would be the first week of October. Thanks! Salman

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Re: CPS publications
by Vazquez Mayagoitia, Alvaro 18 Sep '20

18 Sep '20

Hi Salman I have some thoughts that may add to your list of possible explanations: -One difference between PANDA report and WoS is that the last is not taking papers that are under review or pre-prints. Yes, those papers may not be accepted yet, but I am sure that our rate of success is very high and the PANDA entries reflect what papers were made in a given FY. In some cases, some journals are super slow publishing. However, every PANDA entry has an attached draft which in principle passed some quality control. -In my POV, it is not fair how WoS is taking in account the total production of our division. Let us say 2 people in the division are in the same 2 papers, if we take individual PANDA reports we would get 4 papers, but WoS reports only 2. In my opinion, we should take the sum of individuals. We should define the metric. -WoS is taking calendar years, whereas PANDA reports are by FY. -In my case I suffer of systematic misses in the records because my first and last names have weird characters or too complicated for web 2.0, and it is not trivial to claim papers in WoS. The opposite is also true, I have coworkes with h-index 65 or more , when they just finished the phd 3 years ago. [similar argument in PANDA, there are 2 or 3 Alvaros] -WoS does not take in account DOE technical reports and similar production, right? Were we can find more about PEMP requirements, and why is this important? This is the first time I hear of that. What we traditionally do for the performance appraisal is to attach a PANDA FY report, is that perfect and reflects our work? maybe not... but this is what we have now 2 weeks before the FY ends. I agree, the situation is not only 'patently ridiculous', but also complicated for everyone (a ultra fast pandemia, canceled conferences, difficulty hiring new talent, less computing resources at ANL and therefore less projects, mixed information of Aurora deployment, etc) and I am almost sure that our publications had suffered an impact too. And it is not clear to me how far this impact will go. I wish we can take this basecamp document just to provide upper management to get a perspective of what we have done and have a metric for what our annual production is, and do not use this as a wall of shame for those with less papers this year. Needless to say, we should price quality over quantity. All the best, -Álvaro Vázquez-Mayagoitia, PhD Computational Scientist - R&D Chemistry and Materials Science Argonne National Laboratory https://web.alcf.anl.gov/~vama/ ________________________________ From: cps-employees <cps-employees-bounces(a)lists.anl.gov> on behalf of Habib, Salman <habib(a)anl.gov> Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2020 9:17 PM To: cps-all(a)anl.gov <cps-all(a)anl.gov> Subject: CPS publications Hi Everyone, I just got a listing of all the peer reviewed publications from CPS for the last fiscal year (as found in Web of Science), see attached. This is from a reporting exercise carried out by the library that is part of the annual Argonne PEMP requirements. How can it be that the entire Division only had 7 papers in one year? Something must be wrong! 1. It could be that the paper was counted with some other Division as the primary. 2. Or your papers are just missing because the WoS search is highly incomplete (true in my case). Samantha, can you check this listing against our PANDA records? We have until October 31 to fix this. We really need to have our own records of what we are publishing, the current situation is patently ridiculous. Please check to see which of your publications are missing and let's collect them. I have started a document in the CPS Basecamp for the PEMP reporting: https://3.basecamp.com/3115476/buckets/11926740/documents/3033452659 A good target date to have the info completed would be the first week of October. Thanks! Salman

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CPS publications
by Habib, Salman 17 Sep '20

17 Sep '20

Hi Everyone, I just got a listing of all the peer reviewed publications from CPS for the last fiscal year (as found in Web of Science), see attached. This is from a reporting exercise carried out by the library that is part of the annual Argonne PEMP requirements. How can it be that the entire Division only had 7 papers in one year? Something must be wrong! 1. It could be that the paper was counted with some other Division as the primary. 2. Or your papers are just missing because the WoS search is highly incomplete (true in my case). Samantha, can you check this listing against our PANDA records? We have until October 31 to fix this. We really need to have our own records of what we are publishing, the current situation is patently ridiculous. Please check to see which of your publications are missing and let's collect them. I have started a document in the CPS Basecamp for the PEMP reporting: https://3.basecamp.com/3115476/buckets/11926740/documents/3033452659 A good target date to have the info completed would be the first week of October. Thanks! Salman

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Request time on ThetaGPU
by Riley, Katherine M. 17 Sep '20

17 Sep '20

Dear Argonne Computing Community, The ALCF will begin allocating time for approved ThetaGPU requests starting on Tuesday, September 22. ThetaGPU was fully dedicated to coronavirus research when deployed in May. While coronavirus research will remain the system's top priority, we are expanding ThetaGPU’s availability to the broader Argonne user community. ThetaGPU is capable of handling complex and diverse workloads, integrating data analytics with AI training and learning into a single platform. To be considered for an allocation award, please submit your request using our Discretionary Allocation Request form at https://accounts.alcf.anl.gov/#!/allocationRequest Please note that during this early rollout period, there will be limited support on ThetaGPU. For technical details, visit https://www.alcf.anl.gov/support-center/theta/theta-thetagpu-overview#theta… Please contact support(a)alcf.anl.gov to get answers to your questions. Kind regards, Katherine -- Katherine Riley Director of Science Leadership Computing Facility Argonne National Laboratory -- Computing mailing list Computing(a)anl.gov https://lists.cels.anl.gov/mailman/listinfo/computing

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Fwd: VIP Reminder: Sept 23 Talk on Optimizing Application Performance with ACM Fellow Emery Berger
by Habib, Salman 17 Sep '20

17 Sep '20

FYI -- may be of interest to some people. Salman -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: VIP Reminder: Sept 23 Talk on Optimizing Application Performance with ACM Fellow Emery Berger Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2020 11:43:17 -0400 From: ACM Learning Center <learning(a)acm.org><mailto:[email protected]> To: (No Name Available) <habib(a)ANL.GOV><mailto:[email protected]> ACM TechTalks<https://orange.hosting.lsoft.com/trk/click?ref=znwrbbrs9_6-270b5x324f18x035…> September 17, 2020 [to view image click on]" VIP Reminder: Sept 23 Talk on Optimizing Application Performance with ACM Fellow Emery Berger [to view image click on] You are receiving this email because you registered for a previous ACM TechTalk. As such, we consider you a TechTalk VIP. 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