The goal for the SCIPE/CIP and ACCESS collaboration is to provide tools, information, or resources to support the ACCESS ecosystem. There are many ways to accomplish this in concert with achieving the requirement of a 20% contribution to ACCESS. Additional means of collaboration may emerge as the ecosystem evolves.

How to Contribute

If you have already planned activities, some ideas or thoughts, or connections that you’re able to make that we are unaware of please contact alana.romanella [at] colorado.edu (alana[dot]romanella[at]colorado[dot]edu). If you would like ideas and suggestions please review some options below. Before committing to a plan, please email Alana with ACCESS Support - she may be able to put you in touch with others who are doing similar work, and there may be opportunities to promote your work to the ACCESS community.

Contributions to the Knowledge Base (documentation, tutorials, workshop recordings, github pages. etc) should be submitted through CI Links and/or Ask.CI.

Current Opportunities

Prepare an Intro to ACCESS lecture, tutorial, or slide deck for Basic, Intermediate, or Advanced Users.

Examples:

  • A review of one or more ACCESS resources (e.g. how to get an allocation, how to get started, tips and tricks, software and hardware overview)
  • A general review of offerings that Support/Allocations provides to the community
  • A typical length could either be a 15 or 30 minute presentation

Prepare an Intro to ACCESS lecture, tutorial, or slide deck for a domain-specific conference (e.g. AGU, ODSC, IPSA, etc.) or community (biology department, chemistry honor society, political science affinity group, media studies lecture series, etc.).
  • This can either be presented by you or someone else may use your slides/documentation for future training
  • A typical length could either be a 15 or 30 minute presentation

Prepare an ACCESS “Best Practices” lecture, tutorial, or slide deck that gives examples of best practices and tricks of the trade when using ACCESS.

Examples:

  • How to setup JH on your desktop with helpful notebooks to do common tasks
  • Best practices guide on generating ssh keys and setting up ssh config files
  • A typical length could either be a 15 or 30 minute presentation

Prepare an ACCESS “Best Practices” lecture, tutorial, or slide deck for a domain-specific research area, including preferred software to use (or comparison between packages).
  • Examples of optimized software configurations, ways to optimize workflow and data transfer/storage for applications in that research domain
  • A typical length could either be a 15 or 30 minute presentation

Provide 1:1 feedback or group feedback for the Pegasus project, website improvements, or other specific ACCESS support programs.
As needs of the Support team requires.

 

Contribute to the ACCESS / Open OnDemand community.

Example approaches include:

  • Develop a new app or integrate existing software into OnDemand
  • Create new / improve the existing documentation / training materials
  • Contribute code in response to any existing OnDemand github issue

Expand the knowledge base by contributing documentation/tutorials/workshops either live or recorded video.

Create content on one of these areas of expertise:

  • LLM
  • Intro to Linux
  • Python (any library)
  • Job Scheduling
  • Data Transfer
  • Software Installations
  • Parallel Programming
  • GPU Acceleration
  • Rust