Advancing to ACCESS

XSEDE will now make way for ACCESS. For many, ACCESS will function similarly to XSEDE. Both have the same goal of connecting scientists, researchers and educators with cyberinfrastructure resources they might not have otherwise had access to.

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The Push and Pull of the Ocean

An international group of researchers used SDSC’s Expanse supercomputer to create simulations of the currents in the California Current Ecosystem – an area spanning more than 1,800 miles along the coast from Canada to Mexico.

Contact

If you have questions, or need information about allocations, support, compute resources or analytics, please submit a ticket. You will have to use or set up an ACCESS ID. This is the best place to reach the experts. Looking for upcoming ACCESS events and training? Visit events and training. For media inquiries contact the Communications … Read more

Coordination Office

Science and engineering (S&E) research and education depend upon an increasingly complex and distributed ecosystem of cyberinfrastructure (CI) that comprises elements at research labs, campuses and national resources. The advent of the ACCESS program represents an evolution of the National Science Foundation’s plans for the coordinated and coherent operation of this CI and provides an … Read more

Governance

Executive Council The ACCESS Executive Council comprises the principal investigators (PIs) of ACCESS awards as primary members, several other ACCESS award senior personnel as secondary members or observers and ex officio members including the NSF ACCESS Program Officer. Its purpose is to effect top-level coordination and governance among all ACCESS awardees to ensure high operational … Read more

Organization

With ACCESS, the NSF has awarded $52 million over five years to five lead institutions and their sub-awardees to facilitate the program. Each project within ACCESS is independently managed yet highly cooperative; additionally, the ACCESS Coordination Office (ACO) supports the collective operation of the ACCESS projects, endeavoring to provide seamless experiences across a high-performance, innovative … Read more

About

The national research cyberinfrastructure (CI) ecosystem is essential to computational- and data-intensive research and plays a critical role in ensuring U.S. leadership, economic competitiveness and national security. Advancing Innovation with ACCESS The National Science Foundation, through the Office of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure, has published a vision that calls for the broad availability and innovative use of an agile, integrated, robust, … Read more

Home

ACCESS is a program established and funded by the National Science Foundation to help researchers and educators, with or without supporting grants, to utilize the nation’s advanced computing systems and services – at no cost. Whether you’re looking for advanced computational resources – and outstanding cyberinfrastructure – to take your research to the next level, to … Read more

Privacy Policy

Table of Contents 1 Purpose, Scope, and Applicability 2 General Statement on Data Sharing and Privacy 3 Definitions 4 Information ACCESS Collects 5 How ACCESS Uses Collected Information 6 Information ACCESS Shares 7 With Whom ACCESS Shares Information 8 Acceptance of This Policy 9 Governance v1.2January 10, 2023 1 Purpose, Scope, and Applicability ACCESS, on … Read more