July 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

• New ACCESS RP Integration Dashboard Available
• ACCESS Expands Outreach to Community Colleges
• Major Upgrades for NAIRR Pilot Environment
• New Workflow Feature for RPs
• Follow ACCESS on Social Media
• See You in Buffalo in September!
• Spotlight: ACCESS at PEARC25
• Where in the World: ACCESS in the Heartland

Opportunities

Events & Trainings

Community Announcements

New ACCESS Resource Provider Integration Dashboard Now Available

The new Resource Provider Integration Dashboard is now available from the ACCESS Resource Providers home page. The dashboard aims to lower the resource integration barrier by providing a more intuitive, flexible and modular resource integration process. The new process guides resource providers (RPs) through the steps of registering their organization and resource, and enrolling in an integration roadmap tailored to their resource type and integration goals. Once enrolled, they can select from a menu of roadmap-related integration badges, each representing functionality that the RP provides through ACCESS. Resource provider leadership can enroll and un-enroll badges at any point in their resource lifecycle. The new process also provides implementing staff the tasks and related documentation needed to support badges selected by RP leadership. Once implementation tasks are marked as completed, badges can be submitted for verification and then listed in user-facing resource discovery interfaces. Listed badges include a link for accessing badge-related features. The Integration Dashboard is available in read-only mode to everyone in the ACCESS community so that potential resource providers can explore the integration process. For more information, visit ACCESS Operations on the web.

ACCESS Expands Outreach To Community Colleges 

The Allocations team is continuing to pursue its Program Year 4 goal of engaging instructors and students from community colleges. The team is now publicizing the ACCESS program to institutions who could benefit from national computing resources. Because of this outreach, the ACCESS community should be aware that they might see an increase in questions, tickets and requests. Thank you in advance for your expertise!

Allocations Rolls Out Major Upgrades for NAIRR Pilot Environment 

On July 7, after several months of intensive effort involving most members of the ACCESS Allocations DevOps team, the team successfully rolled out major updates to the NAIRR Pilot allocations environment. The changes transitioned the site from ORCID-based user accounts to ACCESS IDs and adapted the underlying accounting and AMIE infrastructure to communicate NAIRR project creation, user management and usage reporting via the existing ACCESS processes. The work included creating hundreds of new ACCESS IDs in collaboration with the Cybersecurity team in ACCESS Operations and coordinating various changes with Resource Providers, the NAIRR User Experience Working Group and others. These revisions will streamline the allocation request process for RPs, ensuring a smoother and more efficient experience. Kudos and thanks to all involved!

Learn more about the NAIRR Pilot

New Workflow Feature for Resource Providers 

ACCESS introduces a new workflow to help resource providers understand how and why to become an ACCESS RP. Whether exploring the possibility of becoming an RP, integrating their first resource or integrating another resource, the new workflow provides resource providers a step-by-step guide through the ACCESS engagement and integration process. The workflow is available from the ACCESS Resource Provider landing page.

Follow ACCESS on Social Media 

ACCESS shares all kinds of updates – about the program as well as affiliated groups' information – throughout our social media channels. Give us a follow at:

• LinkedIn: accessforci
• Facebook: @ACCESSforCI
• Bluesky: @accessforci
• YouTube: @ACCESSforCI

See You in Buffalo in September!

The next in-person ACCESS Quarterly Meeting will be hosted by our colleagues at SUNY-Buffalo. You can find information on this ACCESS Wiki, including what you need to know about visiting Niagara Falls!

ACCESS at PEARC25

If you attended the PEARC25 Conference in Columbus, OH, last week you know that ACCESS had a strong presence from the conference's start to its closing. The ACCESS booth in the Exhibit Hall gave visitors the chance to talk to ACCESS staff and pick up a copy of the Plan Year 3 Highlights book. ACCESS presented a half-day workshop and made sure to get the word out about its successes in enabling science during the last three years. ACCESS staff and partners also participated in a wide range of tutorials, workshops and paper presentations that covered many hot topics, including how to write a successful ACCESS proposal, using CI in the classroom, Campus Champions and the NAIRR Pilot program and much, much more. Proceedings from the conference are now available at the PEARC website.

ACCESS at Home in the Heartland

Access staff travel the world, but often, some of the best ACCESS success stories are in America’s heartland. For example, Thai Le, a faculty member in the department of computer science at Indiana University’s Luddy School of Informatics, Computing and Engineering, has been leveraging NSF ACCESS allocations on Jetstream2 to transform how students learn about trustworthy AI research. The high-performance resource at IU has become instrumental in Le’s AI courses for both undergraduate and graduate students. 

Read more here

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Project Awards in

July 2025

280

Researchers and Educators Affiliated with New Awards

153

Institutions Represented in July Awards

All data provided by ACCESS Allocations