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On Explaining Facilitation
There are times in life that it’s OK when you’re not sure what to say. To feel clueless (somewhat), and feel comfort in the newness of realized ignorance. To savor the moment. To look at your prior frame of reference, challenge your own assumptions, and then build a response from knowledge and experience that you…
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Learning the Facilitation Ropes
My name is Cesar Sul and I’m a relatively new ACI-REF at USC’s Center for High-Performance Computing. My introduction to facilitation began when one of our researchers started using our login nodes to run their research software. This was an excellent first case because it helped me learn about the rules and layout of our…
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Facilitation principles
Office hours were busy last week. In the space of 1.5 hours, I covered script troubleshooting, managing disk space and quota, conceptualizing how to modify an R script for high-throughput computing, and advising a new workflow for a Psychology project. All that to say, I have learned a LOT since starting in my role as…
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Building a two hour workshop
Hello, My name is Erin Shaw and I have been serving as an ACI-REF for almost three months at USC’s Center for High-Performance Computing (HPC). I have been focusing on outreach and as a result we will be collaborating with a group that provides an HPC service to the medical research community on USC’s health sciences…