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.
ACCESS Allocation Review Committee (AARC)
The Allocations team 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.
If interested, please fill out the feedback form.
ACCESS Researcher 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.
If interested, please fill out the feedback form.
ACCESS 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.
Interested in Attending a Conference and Workshop in Exchange for Travel Support?
Apply for our CCEP program and receive a $3,000 travel reward (can be used for flight, hotel, and registration). Current opportunities include preparing intro to ACCESS lecture, tutorial, or slide deck for the community, documentation on requested topics, expanding the community knowledge base by contributing posts on Ask.CI, and serving on the CCEP Review Committee.
Join the Discussion on Ask.CI
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.
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.
If you have a resource you think researchers would benefit from inclusion in ACCESS, start here and join the Resource Provider Forum.
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.
Developers
ACCESS XDMoD is built on the open source collaborative Open XDMoD software – we welcome third party participation.
Checkout our roadmap to see what we are working on. See something you like? Don’t see something you could use? Let us know!
Our code is hosted on GitHub. So when you’re ready to start working on that new feature you’ll know where to submit the Pull Request.
Our documentation can be found here.
Contact Us
Contact the ACCESS Metrics team via the ACCESS Ticket System.
Data Scientists
The XDMoD Data Analytics Framework provides programmatic access to the data in ACCESS XDMoD via a Python API using Jupyter Notebooks. This API enables a broad range of analyses of historical HPC data. Existing MMS Jupyter Notebooks are available to everyone through the xdmod-notebooks GitHub repository. Anyone with an ACCESS account can log in to ACCESS XDMoD, create an API token as instructed in the notebooks and use that token with the Python API to obtain and analyze data from ACCESS XDMoD.
The ACCESS Metrics team welcomes contributions to the collection of Jupyter Notebooks and the Python API source code. Contributions can be made via GitHub Pull Requests.