The U.S. National Science Foundation ACCESS program has been a regular at each summer PEARC conference since the program started. This year, ACCESS is a gold sponsor for PEARC25, which means we’ve been busy planning more events than ever..
The events begin with a half-day workshop on July 21 from 1:30 – 5 p.m., hosted by several members of the ACCESS team. The workshop will highlight current tools, services and initiatives designed to benefit the broader advanced cyberinfrastructure community, extending beyond the direct scope of ACCESS resources. It can be found in the detailed PEARC25 agenda under the title Expanding ACCESS: Tools and Innovations for the Broader Cyberinfrastructure Community.
The workshop will feature a series of brief presentations focused on tools and resources that may be of interest to the broader community. The goal is to spark interest, encourage further engagement with ACCESS, and offer solutions that can be adopted and implemented at attendees’ home institutions.
Detailed descriptions of each session can be found below:
Half-day workshop: Expanding ACCESS: Tools and Innovations for the Broader Cyberinfrastructure Community
Speaker: Vipin Chaudhary, Case Western Reserve University
System logs are a vital source of diagnostic information in large-scale computing environments, enabling automated anomaly detection (AD) for early fault identification and root-cause analysis. However, existing log AD methods face limitations: brittle reliance on log parsers, rigid embedding-specific pipelines, limited interpretability and poor early detection capabilities. We present Anomaly Nexus, a unified, parser-free and embedding-agnostic framework for unsupervised log anomaly detection.
Speaker: Vikram Gazula, University of Kentucky
Attendees will learn about the ACCESS recommender system, the ACCESS Software Documentation Service and how potential and existing users can leverage these services to effectively use ACCESS resources. In addition, attendees will learn about the ACCESS Question and Answer (Q&A) service, including its range of capabilities and ways it can be incorporated into other web pages and services.
Speaker: David Hart, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)
This presentation covers a planned experiment with collaborators from Harvard Business School and willing Resource Providers using the features recently deployed as part of our Variable Marketplace innovative pilot activity. Over a period of several months, HBS researchers will be changing exchange rates on a daily basis with randomized values to statistically validate the impacts that different discounts or surcharges have on researchers’ decisions to choose from among the available resources.
Speaker: David Hart, NCAR
The Allocations team will describe their On-Ramps product, a JavaScript-based embeddable component that any institution or organization can deploy on their website to share information about the ACCESS ecosystem of resources to their local community. Designed to empower Campus Champions and other cyberinfrastructure facilitators, On-Ramps can augment institutional websites with dynamically updated descriptions of the national-scale resources currently available in the ACCESS ecosystem.
Speaker: Joseph White, University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Members of ACCESS will share information about what infrastructure is currently part of the ACCESS ecosystem and the kinds of infrastructure the ACCESS team is working to expand into. This discussion is intended for researchers who use the ACCESS infrastructure and are wondering which resources might best meet their needs, as well as organizations that are considering integrating their infrastructure into the organization.
In addition to the half-day workshop, ACCESS will also be giving a talk as part of the regular PEARC25 program. Be sure to join our short presentation on the first three years of ACCESS:
Three years in: The impact of the ACCESS program in helping to enable science and engineering in the U.S
Established in 2022, two of the ACCESS program’s overarching goals have been to ease the use of HPC resources as well as democratize access to them. It has achieved this partially through significantly reduced barriers to obtaining an allocation, as well as implementing intuitive web-based interfaces for the advanced computing systems that allow students, researchers and educators to focus on science as opposed to the complexities of the operating systems. In this presentation, we discuss metrics that speak to the impact that the ACCESS program has had in helping to enable science and engineering in the U.S during its first three years.