ACCESS has rolled out a powerful new feature for Resource Providers (RPs) called the ACCESS Variable Marketplace. Now RPs can easily set and modify the exchange rate for their resources, with flexibility to increase interest in an underutilized resource or to respond to high demand.
Do you know faculty members or Principal Investigators interested in getting involved with ACCESS? Are you interested in contributing your knowledge to help guide the program? Now is your chance to nominate yourself or another experienced individual for the ACCESS Researcher Advisory Board (RAC).
Embedding On-Ramps into a website is as easy as copying and pasting a few lines of Javascript, with most organizations able to implement it independently. One partner noted about the process, “It was so easy!” while another partner called it “seamless.”
The number of institutions leveraging On-Ramps is rapidly growing, with the product currently deployed at the Rocky Mountain Advanced Computing Consortium (RMACC), Illinois Computes at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Baylor University, and Jackson State University.
Expanding the range of resources available to researchers in Earth system science and related fields, ACCESS now includes the Derecho system as an option for Explore ACCESS and Discover ACCESS projects. Derecho is the flagship supercomputing system at the National Science Foundation (NSF) National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).
Institutions can now easily connect their faculty and students to information about ACCESS and its resources through the new ACCESS On-Ramps product.
An ACCESS On-Ramp is an inline JavaScript component that organizations embed directly into their websites, providing their member community with streamlined access to available ACCESS resources. The intuitive On-Ramps interface lets viewers browse and filter the set of resources and enables new audiences to smoothly and easily discover the powerful cyberinfrastructure available to them.
The ACCESS team will soon be sending out email invitations for you to participate in our annual community survey that we use to guide future work, improve ACCESS services, and provide feedback to the National Science Foundation (NSF) regarding your experience with ACCESS. Established and funded by the NSF, the ACCESS program is charged with helping researchers and educators use the nation’s advanced computing systems and services. This survey is an opportunity for researchers and educators to provide valuable feedback to help improve ACCESS services.
Institutions can now connect their faculty and students directly to information about ACCESS and its resources through the new ACCESS On-Ramps product. An ACCESS On-Ramp is an inline JavaScript component that organizations can embed into their websites to allow their community to browse through ACCESS resources. The interface and filters are similar to the ACCESS Resource page to make it even easier for new audiences to discover and use powerful ACCESS resources. |
The window for submitting Maximize ACCESS proposals will close on Friday, Jan. 31. and awards will start April 1. From the Maximize ACCESS opportunity that closed last September, the Allocations team awarded nearly 1.6 billion CPU hours and more than 4 million GPU hours to 90 projects. The average project received 90% of the resources requested, and the current portfolio of ACCESS-allocated resources has room to award even more time to meritorious proposals. Information on preparing a successful Maximize ACCESS proposal can be found on the Allocations website.
FABRIC, a unique resource in the NSF cyberinfrastructure ecosystem, is now part of ACCESS Resource. FABRIC is an internationally distributed set of equipment at commercial colocation spaces, labs and campuses. Its mission is to “explore impactful new ideas that are impossible or impractical with the current internet,” and its infrastructure enables cutting-edge experimentation and research at scale. Each node offers significant compute and storage, and all are interconnected by high-speed, dedicated optical links.
ACCESS Allocations introduces its new and improved Resource page, formerly called the Resource Catalog. The page is a one-stop shop for anyone seeking information on the resources available through ACCESS.
The page’s top navigation organizes information into four boxes at the top of the page:
Research Computing personnel from Purdue will observe the university winter break from 12:00am EST on Monday, December 23rd, 2024, and will resume normal business hours on Thursday, January 2nd, 2025. During this time, Anvil computing services will continue to be available, but all staff will be on leave.
Research Computing staff members will monitor the status of all computing and data resources in an effort to ensure continuous availability.
Seeking researchers, educators, graduate students, Resource Providers, and general community members for website user testing after January 1! Eligible participants could earn up to $1,000 in CCEP funding.
The next window for submitting Maximize ACCESS proposals will open on Thursday, Dec. 12 and close on Friday, Jan. 31, 2025. Awards will start April 1, 2025. From the Maximize ACCESS opportunity that closed in September, the Allocations Team awarded nearly 1.6 billion CPU hours and more than 4 million GPU hours to 90 projects. The average project received 90% of the resources requested, and the current portfolio of ACCESS-allocated resources has room to award even more time to meritorious proposals. |
The next window to submit Maximize ACCESS applications opens on Dec. 15 and closes on Jan. 31, 2025. The next review meeting will be held in March 2025. For instructions on how to apply, please review the Prepare Requests webpage, which includes two training videos. The Allocations team will also hold two live training webinars on Thursday, Dec. 12 at 2 p.m. Eastern Time, and Tuesday, Jan. 25 at 2 p.m. ET. When you're ready to submit your request, please do so at the link below. |
Provide feedback on proposed improvements to help users better explore the full range of offerings from ACCESS. If you are a new or potential user of ACCESS resources for research or education, we invite you to participate in a short survey and an online meeting (during the week of October 7, 2024) to share your thoughts and feedback in exchange for a complimentary conference registration of their choice, valued at up to $1,250.
Attention students and educators: With the fall semester underway, keep in mind that ACCESS resources are available for students, instructors and classroom projects. |
This year, ACCESS is a proud sponsor of the Tapia Conference, the premier venue to acknowledge, promote and celebrate inclusion in computing. If you plan to attend the conference in San Diego, Sept. 18 – 20, come see ACCESS at the Town and Country Resort, booth #622. The Tapia Conference, named for the internationally known computational scientist and mathematician Richard A. Tapia, brings together professionals from all backgrounds, ethnicities, ability levels and gender identities to connect, converse and collaborate. |
Researchers at the University of Chicago are examining how HPC users and facilities can reduce the amount of energy they consume. As part of this work, we are looking for participants for a survey on the energy awareness of users in the HPC field. Anyone who uses HPC resources is eligible, so it would be great for members of the ACCESS community to participate.
The study is accessible with the following link: https://uchicago.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_elWWDCm6OdhzaTk.
Are you remembering how to cite ACCESS in your research papers?
To ensure continued support for the NSF-funded cyberinfrastructure ecosystem, researchers are required to properly acknowledge the contribution of the ecosystem in their papers, presentations and other published works.
Papers, presentations and other publications featuring work enabled by ACCESS should properly acknowledge the program’s contributions by citing this publication:
The Ookami team is pleased to announce the addition of two NVIDIA Grace CPU Superchips (144 Arm Neoverse V2 CPU cores with Scalable Vector Extensions (SVE2)).
The new nodes are now available to all Ookami users. If you are interested in using them, get an allocation on Ookami.
ACCESS Support is pleased to present an opportunity for you, your team, or your institution to host a FREE full-day or multi-day workshop for research computing workforce development! Workshop sessions can include both technical and non-technical. The workshop must take place between August 1 and November 15, 2024. The call for workshops will close on May 15, 2024.
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