Setting Students Up for Success with ACCESS

Are you an educator using, or considering using, shared computational and data storage resources with your students? As the fall semester begins, ACCESS resources are available to support students, instructors and classroom projects. Explore ACCESS projects are a great fit for smaller classes and training events. For larger classes or more resource-intensive coursework, Discover ACCESS projects provide medium-scale allocations well suited to bigger cohorts and more extensive training events. Both project types can be requested year-round. Graduate students working on thesis or dissertation research can also serve as principal investigators on either project type, with a letter of support from their advisor. Educators planning multiple courses should submit a separate request for each endeavor. Take advantage of ACCESS resources this semester to set your students up for success! See how other Educators have used ACCESS resources in the classroom.

NSF Presents AI Datasets Webinar

September 9

Join the U.S. National Science Foundation program staff for an informational webinar on the NSF AI Datasets: Unlocking Dataset Value for AI-Enabled Scientific Discovery program. The session will provide an overview of the funding opportunity, which supports efforts to increase the value of existing scientific datasets by making them more accessible, interoperable and ready for artificial intelligence-enabled and automated analysis. Find out more.

ACCESS Metrics Hosts Summer Interns

Justin Rimpel is a junior in the Computer Science Department at the University at Buffalo. This summer, he worked on integrating charts from XDMoD into the Metrics team's hosted JupyterLab instances running the Data Analytics Framework. This feature enables users to open charts from the Metric Explorer in a JupyterLab server with some example Python code to generate the chart. In addition to the JupyterLab integrations, Rimpel worked on a production Docker image for XDMoD to facilitate the installation, setup and management of XDMoD for HPC centers. Kyler Shih is a senior in the Computer Science Department at the University at Buffalo. He worked on making XDMoD compliant with MariaDB's strict SQL mode. This involved changes to both the PHP code and SQL queries, allowing XDMoD to make better use of the data integrity protections built into the database software. Updating XDMoD to use a standard-compliant variant of the SQL language should also reduce the development effort needed to update to a new database software version or different database engine. Rodney Garnett is a senior in the Computer Science Department at the University at Buffalo. This summer he improved the performance of the testing framework for the XDMoD-data Python library (part of the Data Analytics Framework). He also developed new features for the Data Analytics Framework APIs to improve the types of analyses and visualizations that can be done with XDMoD data and improve ease of use.

Thank you, ACCESS Metrics interns, for your exceptional contributions!

See How Researchers and Educators Use ACCESS Tools

ACCESS provides a number of tools to make the job of running a project easier. Now, you can see how those with ACCESS allocations have used tools, including ACCESS OnDemand, Pegasus, XDMoD and Globus, on a variety of research projects across an array of domains. You'll also be able to see information such as which software they used, the project type, how many GPUs/CPUs were used and much more, making this "Tools in Practice" handy for those looking to get the most from their ACCESS allocations.

ACCESS is supported by the

National Science Foundation.