There are many ways to get involved in ACCESS – as a reviewer, moderator, beta tester, mentor, and more. These opportunities are managed by our ACCESS project teams.
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Affinity Groups
Affinity groups serve as communities of practice for topical discussions, offering members access to active communication channels, as well as aggregating relevant links to documentation, news, and events. By joining an affinity group, members can receive important announcements from coordinators and participate in optional email discussions. Additionally, ACCESS Resource Provider groups notify members about outages and training opportunities. If you have an idea for a new affinity group, you can request one.
Research Advisory Committee
The ACCESS Researcher Advisory Committee is exploring ways to ensure researcher perspectives are at the forefront of how ACCESS adapts and improves the advanced cyberinfrastructure ecosystem.
To join, please fill out the feedback form.
Allocation Review Committee
The ACCESS Allocation Review Committee (AARC) is looking for a diverse group of reviewers and is interested in experts from all disciplines, including social sciences, digital arts and humanities and STEM fields.
To join, please fill out the feedback form.
Resource Provider Forum
ACCESS wouldn’t exist without the Resource Providers lending their cyberinfrastructure (CI) to the project. Resource Providers are projects or organizations that provide CI services to the science and engineering community.
Join the Resource Provider Forum
If you have a resource you think researchers would benefit from inclusion in ACCESS, start here.
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To the Conversation
Ask a question or answer a question on Ask.CI, the go-to Q&A platform for the global research computing community, aiming to streamline knowledge sharing and promote self-service learning. It encourages respectful discussions on research computing topics, providing a centralized hub for experience, lessons learned, and best practices. The platform aspires to be a frequently updated resource where answers to current research computing questions are readily available and easily found through search engines.
Build an On-Ramp to ACCESS
Institutions are rapidly deploying ACCESS On-Ramps, a user-friendly JavaScript component that simplifies the discovery of ACCESS cyberinfrastructure for their audiences.
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.”
How to install On-Ramps on your website.
XDMoD Recommendations and Code
ACCESS XDMoD, our project usage, job usage and job performance analysis tool, is built on the open-source Open XDMoD software; we welcome third-party participation. The XDMoD Data Analytics Framework provides programmatic access to the data in ACCESS XDMoD via its Python API by using the xdmod-data Python library. Anyone with an ACCESS account can log in to ACCESS XDMoD, create an API token and use that token with the xdmod-data library to obtain and analyze data from ACCESS XDMoD. You can create a token by following the instruction on the xdmod-data GitHub page. We also welcome contributions to the collection of Jupyter Notebooks and the xdmod-data Python library source code via GitHub Pull Requests.
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Student Training and Engagement Program (STEP)
STEP works to further community engagement, education and training efforts. Its goal is to encourage careers in cyberinfrastructure by providing students with training on marketable skills in the areas of operations, data and networking, and cybersecurity. STEP will focus on providing these opportunities to traditionally underrepresented groups to improve the diversity of the ACCESS program. STEP is intended for undergraduates or early-career graduate students with a goal to encourage careers in cyberinfrastructure.
If you’re interested in STEP, you can apply here.