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The Campus Champions program supports campus representatives as the local source of knowledge about high-performance computing opportunities and resources. This knowledge and assistance will empower campus researchers, educators, and students to advance scientific discovery.

Why would a campus elect to join the program?

Your campus will benefit by having direct access to the TeraGrid and input to its staff, resource allocations awarded for their use, and assistance in using those resources.

The Campus Champion Program will serve as a:

• Source of local, regional and national high-performance computing and cyberinfrastructure information on your campus,
• Source of information regarding TeraGrid resources and services that will benefit research and education on your campus,
• Source of start-up accounts on your campus to quickly get researchers and educators using their allocations of time on TeraGrid resources, and
• Conduit for the campus high-performance computing needs, requirements and challenges, with direct access to TeraGrid staff.

What is expected of the campus?

A Campus Champion may engage in a number of the following activities:

• Providing information on TeraGrid and cyberinfrastructure resources to researchers and educators on your campus,
• Assist campus users to quickly get start-up allocations of computing time on TeraGrid systems,
• Be an ombudsperson, on behalf of the campus users of TeraGrid, to capture information on problems and challenges that need to be addressed by TeraGrid
• Host awareness sessions for campus personnel about TeraGrid resources and services,
• Host training workshops on your campus about the use of TeraGrid resources and services,
• Provide local users with contacts within TeraGrid for quick problem resolution,
• Participate in TeraGrid information sharing sessions, and
• Attend the annual TeraGrid Conference.

What will TeraGrid provide?

TeraGrid will support the Campus Champion representative by providing the following:

• Regular correspondence on new resources, services, and offerings to Campus Champions,
• Participation in User Services Working Group teleconferences,
• Forum for sharing information among other campus champions and TeraGrid personnel,
• Campus visits by TeraGrid personnel,
• Waive the registration fee for the annual TeraGrid conference,
• Training for Campus Champions via the TeraGrid conference, meetings of the representatives, and through on-line forum,
• Allocations of time to allow the representative to get local users started quickly on TeraGrid resources, and
• Success stories of impact of TeraGrid on research and education.

How does a campus join?

To join the Campus Champions program, we encourage you to contact the TeraGrid Campus Champions Program Coordinator, at tgcc-help@teragrid.org. The Coordinator will be glad to discuss your campus interests, explore who on your campus might become the Campus Champion representative, and start you through the enrollment process.

There is no membership fee to participate. Rather, we ask that your campus sign a memorandum of understanding so that there is a mutual understanding of roles and responsibilities.

Your Campus Champion representative will be included on all correspondence including regular updates of activities, new opportunities, and new resources.

Who should be our campus representative?

The TeraGrid Campus Champions are campus personnel who are trained by and supported by TeraGrid. Campuses may elect to identify more than one representative in order to expand the base of knowledge on their campus and to accelerate their outreach and support of researchers and educators on their own campus. The representative is likely to come from one or more of the following communities including:

• CIO staff member
• IT professional staff member
• Researcher or faculty member with a passion to engage colleagues

For more information, contact: tgcc-help@teragrid.org