Affinity Groups

The ACCESS Allocations affinity group is available to chat and answer your questions about allocations policies and procedures. We are also always happy to receive feedback and suggestions from the community!

ACCESS RPs and ACCESS RP Coordinator space for information dissemination and discussion.

Become an ACCESS Support insider by joining our affinity group. Members will receive the ACCESS Support Digest, a bimonthly newsletter with announcements, events, and trainings about things of interest to the ACCESS research computing community. If you have an allocation through ACCESS, you'll automatically become a member of this Affinity Group.Our community Slack group and the Ask.CI forum are other places you can join the community conversation, ask questions, and post useful information.

For members of the ACCESS community interested in news about ACCESS central systems and online services (does NOT include resource provider resources). Join this group to receive system status emails.

Accelerating Computing for Emerging Sciences (ACES) is a NSF-Category II-funded test bed (award number 2112356) that offers state of the art GPUs and other novel accelerators in a composable environment.

Purdue University is the home of Anvil, a powerful new supercomputer that provides advanced computing capabilities to support a wide range of computational and data-intensive research spanning from traditional high-performance computing to modern artificial intelligence applications.

Bridges-2, a resource of Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, is designed for converged HPC + AI + Data. Its custom topology is optimized for data-centric HPC, AI, and HPDA (High Performance Data Analytics). An extremely flexible software environment along with community data collections and BDaaS (Big Data as a Service) provide the tools necessary for modern pioneering research. The data management system, Ocean, consists of two-tiers, disk and tape, transparently managed as a single, highly usable namespace.  

The CSSN are active members of the research support community who share their expertise and get notifications of community opportunities.

DELTA is a dedicated, ACCESS-allocated resource designed by HPE and NCSA, delivering a highly capable GPU-focused compute environment for GPU and CPU workloads.

Expanse is a dedicated ACCESS cluster designed by Dell and SDSC delivering 5.16 peak petaflops, and will offer Composable Systems and Cloud Bursting.

Fostering Accelerated Scientific Transformations, Education, and Research (FASTER) is a NSF-MRI-funded cluster (award number 2019129) that offers state of the art CPUs, GPUs, and NVMe (Non-Volatile MemoryExpress) based storage in a composable environment.

Jetstream2 is a transformative update to the NSF’s science and engineering cloud infrastructure and provides 8 petaFLOPS of supercomputing power to simplify data analysis, boost discovery, and increase availability of AI resources. It is an NSF-funded, user-friendly cloud environment designed to allow “always on” research infrastructure and to give researchers access to interactive computing and data analysis resources on demand, whenever and wherever they want to analyze their data.

The KyRIC cluster will advance several exciting research programs across many disciplines, such as Bioinformatics and System Biology Algorithms, Large Graph and Evolutionary Network Analysis, Image Processing, and Computational Modeling and Simulation.

Launch is a regional computational resource that supports researchers incorporating computational and data-enabled approaches in their scientific workflows.

Ookami is a computer technology testbed supported by the National Science Foundation under grant OAC 1927880. It provides researchers with access to the A64FX processor developed by Riken and Fujitsu for the Japanese path to exascale computing and is currently deployed in the until June 2022 fastest computer in the world, Fugaku.

The OSG provides technologies and services for supporting pools of distributed high-throughput computing (dHTC) and data capacity that serve a number of research communities, worldwide. Among these services, the OSG operates the Open Science Pool (OSPool), which includes capacity contributed from clusters at campuses and national labs across and beyond the US, organized as a single virtual cluster.

The Open Storage Network (OSN) is a distributed data sharing and transfer service intended to facilitate exchanges of active scientific data sets between research organizations, communities and projects, providing easy access and high bandwidth delivery of large data sets to researchers.

Pegasus is a workflow management system, which enables you to run computational workflows across ACCESS resources. Users will seamlessly be able to orchestrate jobs and data movements at different resource providers. At this point, Pegasus on ACCESS is mainly used for high throughput computing (HTC) workloads, consisting of jobs which can fit on a single compute node (single core, multicore, or single node MPI jobs). Pegasus comes with a variety of useful tools that allow users to keep track of their workflows, and debug them when failures occur.

TACC's High Performance Computing (HPC) systems are used primarily for scientific computing and while their disk systems are large, they are unable to store the long-term final data generated on these systems. The Ranch archive system fills this need for high capacity long-term storage, by providing a massive high performance file system and tape-based backing store designed, implemented, and supported specifically for archival purposes.

Johns Hopkins University's Rockfish is a community-shared cluster at Johns Hopkins University. It follows the "condominium model" with three main integrated units.

Stampede3 is generously funded through the National Science Foundation and is designed to serve today's researchers as well as support the research community on an evolutionary path toward many-core processors and accelerated technologies. Stampede3 maintains the familiar programming model for all of today's users, and thus will be broadly useful for traditional simulation users, users performing data intensive computations, and emerging classes of new users.

A group for CI and RCD professionals responsible for the Account and Access Management solutions at their institutions. Participants can share and discuss the approaches they use for managing accounts, usage tracking and allocations.

Gathering place for AI researchers to find curated information about using ACCESS resources for AI applications and research.

Site Moderators and Locale Moderators for the Ask.CI Q&A platform for Research Computing. Site Moderators meet bi-weekly and Locale Moderators meet monthly. New participants welcome!

The Campus Champions comprise a thriving community of practice for research computing, data and software professionals.

Cyberinfrastructure Community-Wide Mentorship Network

People who use or are considering the use of cloud resources for research computing.    

People who have or are thinking about adding a Portal View on Connect.Cyberinfrastructure.org

For people whose work is impacted by cybersecurity regulations.

FABRIC is a US-based nation-wide testbed supporting advanced networking, application and security research funded by the US National Science Foundation.

This affinity group will work to strengthen understanding and dissemination of best practices related to visualization and rendering of data on HPC systems. A focus here will be on remote visualization techniques, and low level headless rendering strategies.

For groups and people working to build a set of standardized minimal HPC ontologies and metadata. 

High Performance Computing and related fields such as Big Data, Research Computing, and related hardware and software engineering and development, cloud and data center operations, and career development.

For people who evaluate or use storage options for researchers with large data sets. 

People involved with the NSF-funded CyberTraining CIP class awards or Strengthening the Cyberinfrastructure Professionals Ecosystem (SCIPE) program. This includes the trainees, mentors, participants in the CSSN who work with the CIPs and those involved in management or execution of the awards.

For users and facilitators of Open OnDemand. Open OnDemand provides an intuitive, innovative, and interactive interface to remote computing resources. Open OnDemand helps computational researchers and students efficiently utilize remote computing resources by making them easy to access from any device.

Researchers and enthusiasts interested in discussing quantum computing topics.

People who use r on HPC systems and want to exchange experiences, best practices and/or collaborate.

Affinity group representing the Rocky Mountain Advanced Computing Consortium and the legacy Campus Champions Region 8.

A group for people supporting small scale HPC groups at their institution.