March 2026

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 ACCESS Tools
Time for Spring Cleaning
Say Howdy to REPACSS

Opportunities

Events & Trainings

Community Announcements

Science Stories

enabled by ACCESS

Using HPC to Discover New Benefits to Global Trade

A researcher at Purdue used their time on Anvil to study how robust international trade can help mitigate the impact of events such as extreme heat on local food supplies.

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Using Simulations to Create Safer Hydrogen Fuel

Researchers at the University of California San Diego used their ACCESS allocations to find ways to make hydrogen safer for gas turbines.

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Meet Your Project’s Matchmaker: New ACCESS Tools

ACCESS staff are constantly working to improve your experience in the program – they’ve recently unveiled new tools to help you choose your resources.

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What's New?

Time for Spring Cleaning

Spring is a great time for anyone with an ACCESS project to revisit your work and do a little clean-up. For example, cleaning up data stored on ACCESS systems, backing up data to other locations, deleting files that are no longer being used and auditing your list of active users.

Discover Local Entryways to the Nation’s Cyberinfrastructure

On-Ramps is an online tool that you can embed directly into your site so members can browse available ACCESS resources, filtered by feature. Easily add this tool to your own online resource list, educating your community about its full range of HPC options.

This tool connects educators and researchers with powerful HPC resources when and where they need them. It extends the ACCESS program’s reach, and empowers your community members by giving them a larger toolbox to choose from.

Find easy instructions here

Remember to Properly Cite ACCESS in

Your Publications

To ensure continued support for the NSF-funded cyberinfrastructure ecosystem, researchers are required to properly acknowledge the contribution of the ecosystem in their papers, presentations and other published works.

Papers, presentations and other publications featuring work enabled by ACCESS should properly acknowledge the program’s contributions by citing this publication:

Timothy J. Boerner, Stephen Deems, Thomas R. Furlani, Shelley L. Knuth, and John Towns. 2023. ACCESS: Advancing Innovation: NSF’s Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Coordination Ecosystem: Services & Support. “In Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing (PEARC ’23)”, July 23–27, 2023, Portland, OR, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 4 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3569951.3597559.

In addition, please include the name of the resource and the following acknowledgment:

This work used [resource-name] at [resource provider] through allocation [allocation number] from the Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Coordination Ecosystem: Services & Support (ACCESS) program, which is supported by National Science Foundation grants #2138259, #2138286, #2138307, #2137603, and #2138296.

Spotlight

Say Howdy to REPACSS from Texas Tech University

The REmotely-managed Power Aware Computing Systems and Services (REPACSS) resource joined the ACCESS ecosystem fairly recently, bringing 110 CPU and eight GPU nodes to the program.

Its focus is on improvements to data center and infrastructure control to provide adaptability to emergent conditions and the ability 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 specifically targeted to be adopted at scale by other resource facilities and industry.

See how REPACSS might advance your research here.

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