ACCESS Staff Newsletter – November 2023 - Corrected

Inside ACCESS is a monthly newsletter produced for all ACCESS program staff. It contains program-wide announcements and updates from each of the program's service areas. Questions/comments? Email us at communications@access-ci.org.

Upcoming Webinars: How to Write a Successful Maximize ACCESS Allocations Request

Please help us spread the word! Does your research - or a colleague’s research - require large-scale computational, analysis or storage resources? If so, check out one of the upcoming webinars on how to craft a successful Maximize ACCESS Allocations request. With no upper credit limit, Maximize is the largest-scale opportunity available (see documentation for more information). At 2 p.m. ET on Dec. 12, the ACCESS Allocations team will discuss the required components, review criteria and other information you need to write the most impactful Maximize request. A second webinar will be held at 2 p.m. on Jan. 16, 2024. Maximize requests will be accepted from Dec. 15, 2023 to Jan. 31, 2024. They"ll be reviewed in early March 2024 and if successful, they'll begin or renew on April 1, 2024. Don’t miss these helpful webinars - and tell a friend.

Register for the Dec. 12 webinar

Register for the Jan. 16 webinar

Maximize ACCESS Request Window Opening Soon

For researchers with the largest-scale computational, analysis and storage needs, requests for Maximize ACCESS allocations can be made from Dec. 15, 2023 to Jan. 31, 2024. Approved requests will begin or renew on April 1, 2024. The full allocation request timeline is as follows:

• December 15: Request window opens
• January 31: Request window closes
• Early March: Review meeting
• Mid-March: Notifications sent to requestors
• April 1: Start/renewal date

Two webinars on “How to Write a Successful Maximize ACCESS Allocations Request” will take place before and during the request window (see previous article). The next Maximize ACCESS request window will be June 15 to July 31, 2024, with awards starting October 1, 2024.

Researchers with existing large-scale XSEDE Research or earlier Maximize ACCESS allocations should contact the Allocations team with any questions or concerns to determine the best option for aligning project renewals with the semi-annual schedule. When your request is ready, please submit it here.

Have suggestions on how we can improve allocations processes for ACCESS? Send us your feedback.  

Allocations Team Member Wins 'Rising Star' Award

If you happen to see Agbeli (Ag) Ameko, NCAR scientist and ACCESS Allocations team member, make sure to congratulate him for receiving the 2023 Rising Star Award at The Science Gateways 2023 Annual Conference. Ag was recognized for his DEI Facilitator role. The conference was held Oct. 30 – Nov. 1 in Pittsburgh. 

Metrics Team Shares its Work at Annual Conferences

The Metrics group sent eight people to SC23 and three to the Metrics 2023 conference. Presentations at Metrics 2023, held in Denver Nov. 11 and 12, were:

• Abani Patra - Measuring Performance and Usage: Evolution of the Measuring and Monitoring of NSF Supercomputing
• Aaron Weeden - The Data Analytics Framework for XDMoD
• Nikolay Simakov - First Impressions of the Sapphire Rapids Processor with HBM for Scientific Workloads, and Feasibility of Application-Agnostic Speed and Cost Performance Metrics on an Example of Gromacs, a Molecular Dynamics Application

Nikolay Simakov presented "Using XDMoD for HPC Performance and Quality-of-Service Analysis" at the SC23 Workshop on Programming and Performance Visualization Tools. Booth talks by team members at SC23 were:

• Introduction to XDMoD
• The XDMoD Data Anlytics Framework
• ColdFront Allocations
• Slurm Simulator

Congratulations to all for sharing their ACCESS work with the larger community!

Refreshed Support Portal

ACCESS Support is pleased to present its refreshed portal. The portal was designed to include improved navigation and additional information about the variety of support programs available through ACCESS. Some highlights of the new release include: the ACCESS Resource Advisor (currently in Beta), designed to help users find appropriate infrastructure for their research; and the ACCESS Video Learning Center, which provides an orientation to ACCESS for both new and existing users.

A special thanks to Lissie Fein, Andrew Pasquale, and Miles Frances for their hard work and design expertise in improving the portal.

The ACCESS Advance Now Online

If you haven't received all of our monthly newsletters or simply want a handy place to find them, you'll find all of our ACCESS Advance newsletters now archived here.

Email Template For Event Follow-ups

Our Community Building & Engagement team has developed a template that anyone can use to follow up with contacts made at events, such as conferences. You can customize it as you see fit, but we hope you'll include links to our newsletter sign-up and social media mentions! Find the template here.

ACCESS Year 1 Highlights Book Now Available

Debuted at SC23, highlights from our first year of operations have been captured in a book and PDF version. You can view and download the book here.

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