September 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

Welcome to ACCESS Texas Tech!
Teams Spread News About ACCESS
Spotlight: Check Out Our Year 3 Program Highlight Book

Opportunities

Events and Trainings

Community Announcements

Science Stories

enabled by ACCESS

When the Heart Loses

the Beat

Ohio State researcher Nicolae Moise uses ACCESS-allocated resources from NCSA as well as resources from the Ohio Supercomputer Center to explore the long-term progression of atrial fibrillation (AF), in the hopes that his research can help with treatments that can stop AF before it becomes a lifelong condition.

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Scientists Cracking the Code on Mars Parachute Fabric Performance

Using Anvil, an ACCESS-allocated resource at Purdue University, a researcher at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ, made a breakthrough in understanding how the fabric used in Mars mission parachutes affects landing performance – research that could improve future planetary missions.

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Unraveling the Power of Twisted Bilayers

A team of researchers from the University of Illinois used ACCESS-allocated resources Delta at NCSA and Bridges-2 at PSC to perform atomic-level simulations, gaining a clearer understanding of how twisted bilayers work. Their thermal insulation properties – if they can be harnessed – could protect satellites, electronics and homes from excess heat.

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What's New?

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.

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

Check Out Our Year 3 Program Highlight Book

ACCESS debuted its annual highlights book at PEARC25, providing a broad overview of the significant impacts ACCESS has had 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.

ACCESS Website

Events & Trainings

Community Announcements

ACCESS is supported by the

National Science Foundation.