Announcements

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.

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:

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). Installed in 2023, the system is used annually by more than 1,500 researchers in the Earth system science community.

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.

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. 

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