October 2025

The ACCESS Advance is a monthly newsletter produced by the U.S. National Science Foundation's ACCESS (Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Coordination Ecosystem: Services & Support) program. It contains science stories enabled by ACCESS, program news and opportunities for users.

In this Issue

New Hosted Data Analytics Framework for ACCESS XDMoD
Vote for an ACCESS or RP Project in This Year’s HPCwire Awards!
Follow ACCESS on Social Media
Spotlight: Teams Talk All Things ACCESS

Opportunities

Events and Trainings

Community Announcements

Science Stories

enabled by ACCESS

ACCESS Resource Used to Address Potable Water Shortages

MIT researchers ran simulations on Expanse at the San Diego Supercomputer Center to explore new materials and methods for making desalination of saltwater more stable and affordable for the billions who face shortages.

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Breaking through the Blood-Brain Barrier

A team from Weill Cornell Medicine used Delta at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications to study a protein that can cross the blood brain barrier – work which could help in the delivery of therapeutic drugs to patients with neurological disorders.

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Diving Deeper Into Black Holes

A Princeton University research team uses Stampede2 and Stampede3 at the Texas Advanced Computing Center to model the dynamic interplay between high-energy plasma, powerful magnetic fields, and the overwhelming pull of gravity near black holes.

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What's New?

New Hosted Data Analytics Framework for ACCESS XDMoD

ACCESS XDMoD has a new hosted Data Analytics Framework available, which allows users to log in, launch a JupyterLab session (via a button in the top-right corner), use a Python API to request ACCESS CI usage and performance data, and analyze the data using a broad range of data science, visualization and machine learning tools. The Data Analytics Framework for XDMoD was previously available but required a local installation of the Python API and Jupyter. The new hosted framework requires no local software installation. Users should note that JupyterLab sessions do not have persistent storage, so they should download their work periodically. The JupyterLab sessions contain example Jupyter notebooks showing how to use the Python API; these are also available through the xdmod-notebooks GitHub repository. The ACCESS Metrics team welcomes contributions to the notebooks and to the Python API source code via GitHub Pull Requests. For questions, please submit a ticket here.

Vote for an ACCESS or RP Project in This Year’s HPCwire Awards!

Voting has begun for the 2025 HPCwire awards. Many of our Resource Providers (RPs) have been nominated for a number of awards, and ACCESS is featured in five of the nominations. Please consider supporting the vital work done through the ACCESS program and through our RPs by voting in this year’s awards. You can cast your vote here. You must be a subscriber to HPCwire’s Weekly Update to cast your ballot. Voting is only open until Friday, Oct. 3. Now is also the perfect time to follow ACCESS on LinkedIn or BlueSky. You’ll find more details about the nominated projects in our social media feeds, and you can follow our SC25 conference updates as we prepare for the big event!

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

Spotlight

Teams Talk All Things ACCESS

ACCESS is a broad, inclusive community, and a wide range of principal investigators (PIs) handle allocations on ACCESS resources, support for users, development of new tools and software, and outreach to potential new users and students. With ACCESS, a graduate student can utilize the most advanced systems in the world, and scientists and educators at institutions with few HPC resources can obtain allocations on systems across the nation. Listen to a video in which our PIs talk about their work, why it's important and how ACCESS contributes to a national cyberinfrastructure that empowers discoveries in science and engineering. You can also check out more ACCESS videos on our YouTube page.

ACCESS Website

Events & Trainings

Community Announcements

ACCESS is supported by the

National Science Foundation.