DeltaAI Now Accepting Allocation Requests

NCSA welcomes researchers to request the new DeltaAI system in their Maximize allocation requests. DeltaAI will provide a major boost in computational resources for AI/ML research and GPU accelerated computational research in general when it enters production in September.

PEARC Promo Opportunity

Are you planning to attend PEARC24 this month? ACCESS can help you promote your BoF or other PEARC24 presentation. If you're an ACCESS staff member, Resource Provider, or community member using ACCESS resources, send information about your session to communications@access-ci.org as soon as you know your dates/times and we'll include it in our news stories and social media PEARC24 promotions. Be sure to include the title, day and time, location and a brief description of what attendees should expect. PEARC24 takes place July 21 – 25 in Providence, RI.

Join ACCESS Support at PEARC24

Join ACCESS Support and members of the SCIPE/CIP at PEARC24 for an Introduction to AI followed by a fun and engaging "Mini-Hack" with prizes and a $3,000 travel grant award. The event takes place Tuesday, July 23, from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. Anyone can join the event – it targets everyone from true beginners who don’t know how to code to expert coders. Students are welcome and encouraged to attend. The "Mini-Hack” involves an exploration of IMDB movie reviews (50,000 of them) for supervised machine learning to predict positive or negative sentiment. Participants will use Python and sklearn software to: extract feature representations of text movie reviews; generate word clouds to visualize groups of documents and their characteristic words; run basic machine learning algorithms; learn about training/test split for conducting machine learning experiments; and evaluate feature choice and its impact on test results. Time permitting, participants will also use more advanced deep learning to predict new movies a user is likely to enjoy based on their past viewing habits. Have questions or want to participate? Email Alana Romanella.

OnDemand Team at SciPy

The Open OnDemand team will have a presence at the SciPy 2024 conference July 8 – 14. The team will have an exhibitor table to engage with attendees and will be hosting a Birds of a Feather session on July 11 titled "Open OnDemand: Providing easy access to scientific computing resources."

STEP Program a Success at FIU

In a packed and productive May, the ACCESS Operations team conducted its second cohort of the Student Training and Engagement Program (STEP-1) at Florida International University from May 13 to 24. Fifteen students participated in this intensive training program, aimed at exploring careers in cyberinfrastructure.

Introducing Bulk User Enrollment

Are you planning to teach a class that needs ACCESS accounts for all your students? Or are you preparing for a seminar and need ACCESS accounts for your attendees? If so, you might be interested in Bulk User Enrollment, a new service offering for Summer 2024. You provide us with a list of users (i.e., their names, organizations, and email addresses), and we provide you with the ACCESS IDs of their newly created accounts.

Remember to cite ACCESS in Your Research Papers.

Are you remembering how to cite ACCESS in your research papers?

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.

ACCESS is supported by the

National Science Foundation.