Science Gateways Conference in Pittsburgh

The Science Gateways 2023 Annual Conference took place Oct. 30 – Nov. 1 in Pittsburgh. The conference provides an opportunity for participants to engage with developers and user communities on diverse applications and approaches, and across academic interests that help build and maintain gateways for scientific applications. At an event Tuesday night (Oct. 31), ACCESS Allocations team member Agbeli (Ag) Ameko received the "2023 Rising Star Award" for his role as a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) facilitator for ACCESS. For more information on the conference, including links to conference proceedings, visit the Science Gateways 2023 website.

Save the Dates for PEARC24

The PEARC24 Executive Committee is pleased to announce the tentative dates for PEARC24 to be July 21—25, 2024 with the theme "Human Powered Computing." Details on location, conference events and more will be coming soon.

In response to feedback from the field, the access-ci.org homepage has been updated with clearer directions to information and helpful "Get Started" links to other areas of the ACCESS web presence. Follow the Get Started link to learn more.

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If you've browsed through the list of available resources on the ACCESS Allocations web page lately, you’ve probably noticed that the list is growing. Several resources supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) have recently been added but are not yet available through ACCESS Allocations. They are: 

• Voyager at the San Diego Supercomputer Center
• Neocortex at the Pittsburgh Supercomputer Center
• HIVE at the Georgia Institute of Technology
• Stampede3 at the Texas Advanced Computing Center.

Researchers are encouraged to view the resource catalog entries and contact the appropriate site directly if they are interested in using these new architectures. In addition, PSC Anton2, a specialized molecular dynamics resource made possible by the National Institutes of Health, is also now available to interested investigators. Stay tuned for more updates on these and additional resources.

Acknowledging ACCESS in your Publications

If your use of ACCESS resources is leading toward preparing a publication, remember to cite ACCESS and the resources utilized! To ensure continued support for the NSF-funded cyberinfrastructure ecosystem, researchers are required to properly acknowledge the contribution of ACCESS in their papers, presentations and other published works. Work enabled by ACCESS should acknowledge the program’s contributions by citing this publication:

ACCESS: Advancing Innovation: NSF’s Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Coordination Ecosystem: Services & Support. Timothy J. Boerner, Stephen Deems, Thomas R. Furlani, Shelley L. Knuth, and John Towns. 2023. In “Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing (PEARC23), July 23–27, 2023, Portland, OR, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 4 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3569951.3597559.

In addition, please include the name of the resource(s) and the following acknowledgment: This work used [resource-name] at [resource provider] through allocation [allocation number] from the Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Coordination Ecosystem: Services & Support (ACCESS) program, which is supported by National Science Foundation grants #2138259, #2138286, #2138307, #2137603, and #2138296. If you have questions, please submit a ticket and a staff member will get back to you.

The ACCESS Operations Student Training and Engagement Program (STEP) has entered its STEP-3 phase with two students involved in a part-time internship program that will continue through the 2023-2024 academic year. One of the students is embedded with the cybersecurity team assisting with Qualys reorganization, which will better streamline ACCESS vulnerability management. This restructuring also will ensure precise access to resources without the need for global administrative privileges, a feature that will safeguard resources while maintaining seamless accessibility. The other student intern works with the operational support team to improve accessibility to ACCESS resource information for researchers. The work targets the AI chatbot and includes writing programs to generate AI-friendly documents from ACCESS database content.