August 2025

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

In this Issue

• A Warm Welcome to Ed Walker
• Welcome to ACCESS, Texas Tech!
• Attending a Conference?
• Spotlight: Year 3 Program Highlight Book
• Where in the World: Spreading the News About ACCESS

Opportunities

Events & Trainings

Community Announcements

A Warm Welcome to Ed Walker 

As Puri Bangalore rotates out of his position supporting Sharon Geva, our ACCESS cognizant program officer at the U.S. National Science Foundation, we welcome NSF Program Director Ed Walker in his place.

Welcome to ACCESS, Texas Tech University!

The Texas Tech University (TTU) REPACSS Cluster is now allocable via ACCESS. The focus of the REPACSS project is on improving data center and infrastructure control to make it more adaptable to emergent conditions and able to adjust workloads to match data center load conditions, including the availability and cost of electrical power. REPACSS also features advanced remote management capabilities and automation tools to manage scientific workflows that are specifically targeted to be adopted at scale by other resource facilities and industry. Find out more about our newest resource here.

Attending a Conference?

If you'll be at a conference representing ACCESS, you can request branded materials including a tablecloth and floor- and tabletop-pull up banners. You can also request swag and print materials. Don't forget to log your event attendance in our Engagement Tracker.

Check Out Our Year 3 Program Highlight Book

ACCESS debuted its annual highlights book at PEARC25, providing a broad overview of how ACCESS has made important impacts on the field of research computing. The booklet covers ACCESS achievements made in Program Year 3, including a letter penned by ACCESS principal investigators (PIs), science stories covering the broad variety of research ACCESS helped enable and a brief overview of some of the many accomplishments the ACCESS program has achieved over the last year. While the booklet is not an exhaustive list of everything the program has achieved, we hope that the content will help inspire readers to consider an ACCESS allocation for their research needs. If you'd like to share the booklet with anyone who could benefit from free access to cyberinfrastructure resources, download and share this digital version.

Teams Spread the News About ACCESS

This summer, team members spread the word about our program at Stony Brook's ByteBoost Cybertraining event, the Minority Serving Cyberinfrastructure Consortium's (MS-CC) annual meeting in Nashville and at Swarthmore College's Research Computing at Smaller Institutions program in Swarthmore, PA. The ByteBoost program aims to enhance researchers' proficiency and productivity with specialized computing technologies. The MS-CC is an alliance to improve cyberinfrastructure capabilities at HBCUs, TCUs, HSIs, and MSIs. Have an idea for a conference or event ACCESS should attend? Share it here.

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Project Awards in

August 2025

298

Researchers and Educators Affiliated with New Awards

153

Institutions Represented in July Awards

All data provided by ACCESS Allocations