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HPC-ED is working to improve discovery and sharing of CyberTraining resources through the combination of the HPC-ED CyberTraining Catalog, an effective and flexible interface, thoughtful metadata design, and active community participation. HPC-ED encourages authors to share training resource information while retaining ownership and allows organizations to enrich their local portals with shared materials. By basing the architecture on an established, flexible framework, HPC-ED can provide a range of solutions people and organizations can employ for sharing and discovering materials. In this paper we describe the initial pilot phase of the project, where we prototyped the HPC-ED catalog, established an initial metadata set, provided documentation, and began using the system to share and discover materials. We gathered community feedback through a variety of means, and are now planning an implementation phase based on evolving our architecture and tools to meet community needs and feedback through improved interfaces and tools designed to address a range of preferences. 

The needs of cyberinfrastructure (CI) Users are different from those of CI Contributors. Typically, much of the training in advanced CI addresses developer topics such as MPI, OpenMP, CUDA and application profiling, leaving a gap in training for these users. To remedy this situation, we developed a new program: COMPrehensive Learning for end-users to Effectively utilize CyberinfraStructure (COMPLECS). COMPLECS focuses exclusively on helping CI Users acquire the skills and knowledge they need to efficiently accomplish their compute- and data-intensive research, covering topics such as parallel computing concepts, data management, batch computing, cybersecurity, HPC hardware overview, and high throughput computing. 

To improve the sharing and discovery of CyberTraining materi- als, the HPC-ED Pilot project team is building a platform for the community to better share and find training materials through a federated catalog. The platform, currently in early test mode, is fo- cused on a flexible platform, informative metadata, and community participation. By creating a framework for identifying, sharing, and including content broadly, HPC-ED will: allow providers of training materials to reach new groups of learners; extend the breadth and depth of training materials; and enable local sites to add or extend local portals. 

Throughout the cyberinfrastructure community there are a large range of resources available to train faculty and young scholars about successful utilization of computational resources for research. The challenge that the community faces is that training materi- als abound, but they can be difficult to find, and often have little information about the quality or relevance of offerings. Building on existing software technology, we propose to build a way for the community to better share and find training and education materials through a federated training repository. In this scenario, organizations and authors retain physical and legal ownership of their materials by sharing only catalog information, organizations can refine local portals to use the best and most appropriate ma- terials from both local and remote sources, and learners can take advantage of materials that are reviewed and described more clearly. In this paper, we introduce the HPC ED pilot project, a federated training repository that is designed to allow resource providers, campus portals, schools, and other institutions to both incorporate training from multiple sources into their own familiar interfaces and to publish their local training materials. 

It is essential to initiate a curriculum concerning mobile device forensics and law enforcement in the intermediate grades in Mississippi using a facet of multidisciplinary subjects: biology, chemistry, computer science, criminology, and physics. The students participated in engaged teams who gathered the evidence (critical thinking), analyzed the evidence (deductive reasoning), and drew conclusions (inference) in a story-based scenario entitled “Cyberbullying Mobile Device Criminal Investigation.” This research presents cyberbullying while bringing awareness to the law enforcement community by understanding digital forensics; furthermore, it shows how STEM and Criminology are presented to intermediate students by solving a middle school mystery based on a multidisciplinary framework. By including a multidisciplinary curriculum in this process, students developed an appreciation of the interrelatedness between the STEM Sciences and Liberal Arts Education. 

A User Portal is being developed for NSF-funded Expanse super- computer. The Expanse portal is based on the NSF-funded Open OnDemand HPC portal platform which has gained widespread adoption at HPC centers. The portal will provide a gateway for launching interactive applications such as MATLAB, RStudio, and an integrated web-based environment for file management and job submission. This paper discusses the early experience in deploying the portal and the customizations that were made to accommodate the requirements of the Expanse user community.