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ACCESS Knowledge Base

Explore the Knowledge Base and connect with community experts and other researchers. Browse materials to solve common problems and reduce the learning curve. Ask questions on our expert-monitored Q&A Forums or on Slack. Join communities that organize information and communication around a common theme.

Browse the Documentation

Resource provider guides with specific information about their offerings, code snippets, and best/good enough practices.

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Ask.CI Q&A

Our expert-monitored Q&A platform where you can browse and contribute questions and answers.

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Crowd-sourced Links

A vetted list of useful Cyberinfrastructure websites, training modules, and tutorials contributed by the community.

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Community Affinity Groups

Engage in direct connections with community experts and other researchers through, Slack, email and Q&A forums.

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Getting Started with ACCESS

ACCESS Services are many and varied including allocations, authorization & authentication, user support, performance monitoring and measurement and more… for a growing NSF Cyber-ecosystem for research computing and data. Explore how to get started in ACCESS!

How do I get started with ACCESS?

An introductory guide.

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How do I request compute or storage resources?

Everything you need to know about getting resources from ACCESS.

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Where can I find information that was on the XSEDE User Portal?

A handy list of where to find info for researchers with XSEDE experience.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Visit the ACCESS Home page to learn about all of the ACCESS Tracks.

If you are having trouble with your ID you can visit Identity Management.

Our goal is to deliver a comprehensive knowledge base that makes the need for tickets relatively rare. You can still submit tickets via a webform so we can route tickets more efficiently.

There is a calendar of events posted by the community and you can join the ACCESS Support Affinity Group to receive emails about trainings, our pilot programs, and program developments.

The goal of the ACCESS CSSN program is to provide crowd-sourced opportunities to meet the needs of the community, to engage community organizations and members in this process, and to be inclusive and collaborative. Financial incentives are available to support a number of activities: trainings, participation in community discussion forums, adding CI links via the CSSN Community Engagement program (CCEP). Opportunities for active and up-and-coming leaders in our community to participate in advisory roles are also available through serving on the CCEP Grant Committee, Ask.CI Committee, or MatchPlus/Premier Committee.

The ACCESS Support team looks forward to working with the community to further develop the CSSN. Contact us for more info or sign up here.

The CSSN Community Engagement Program (CCEP) offers travel support for CSSN members to recognize helpful contributions to the community. This includes PEARC and any conference of your choosing. Find out more about the CCEP Community Grants and Contribution Rewards.

The CSSN Community Engagement Program (CCEP) is accepting applications for travel support ($500-$2500) for CSSN members to recognize helpful contributions to the community. There are two ways to participate in the program:

1. Community Grant submissions to create new documentation, videos, tutorials or live events which must be approved before work is started. Submissions are reviewed once a month by the community grants committee.

2. Community Contribution Rewards where the submitter contributes first and then applies for a reward. Submissions are reviewed once a month by the Ask.CI committee.

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Open OnDemand empowers students, researchers, and industry professionals with remote web access to supercomputers. Hundreds of organizations worldwide—from major universities to leading technology companies—have adopted Open OnDemand. You can run Open OnDemand in your browser with no client software installation required. You will be able to start computing immediately with a simple interface that makes Open OnDemand easy to learn and use. Find out more

Pegasus is a workflow management system enabling researchers 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. A workflow submit host is available for users to submit and manage workflows. Find out more

The XSEDE User Portal (XUP) was retired, and the ACCESS Support Portal went live on Sept 1, 2022. Basic XUP functionality was transitioned to enable the research community to continue to use ACCESS resources (formerly XSEDE resources). Content was moved to our Confluence documentation pages, upcoming outages, news and events are displayed, there are links to request allocations, create/manage ACCESS accounts, and view ACCESS usage metrics. Your username and password for the XSEDE User Portal remain the same in the ACCESS Support portal.

ECSS-like services are supported through MATCHPremier services. In the MATCHPremier program, consultants providing services are paid by grant funds and/or supplemental funds from the funding entity. We connect consultants to projects by keywords or tags that researchers select from a carefully curated vocabulary. Learn more about MATCHPlus here. Learn about our overall strategy here.

The Campus Champions are one of several important established communities of practice that the ACCESS Support team will partner with to deliver our services. The ACCESS Support team is working with the Champions Leadership Team to determine how best to navigate their role in the CSSN.

Please contact us to discuss responses to the NSF23-521 “Strengthening the Cyberinfrastructure Professionals Ecosystem (SCIPE)” solicitation.

Visit our Forums

ACCESS Support is partnering with the Ask.CI Q&A Platform for Research Computing to provide a wide array of Q&A forums to facilitate community-driven discourse about ACCESS resources as well as other topics of interest. A sampling of forums is listed below.