Stretch Your Credits with the ACCESS Variable Marketplace
ACCESS has recently unveiled a new way to stretch your allocation credits, the ACCESS Variable Marketplace. This new tool will be beneficial to both Resource Providers (RPs), and researchers and educators using their allocations.
For researchers, the Variable Marketplace offers a unique opportunity to exchange ACCESS Credits for discounted resource allocations, maximizing the value of projects. RPs gain the flexibility to quickly adapt to changing demand and highlight readily available resources for research projects.
A research team from Harvard University is conducting a short voluntary survey to better understand and improve users’ experiences with ACCESS computing resources available through the ACCESS allocations Variable Marketplace. The survey takes about five minutes to complete. As part of the study, survey responses will be linked to your publicly available user-level allocation data, including information such as institution, number of active projects, usage of computing resources to date, allocated computing resources to date, number of jobs, maximum job size, minimum job size and average wait time on the platform. Your decision to participate or not participate will not affect your relationship with ACCESS or your standing with ACCESS in any way. Only summary statistics and aggregated findings from the study may be shared with ACCESS. Individual survey responses and linked individual-level data will not be shared back with ACCESS. You can access the survey here. If you have questions about the study, please contact the research team at kmyers@hbs.edu.
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