August 2024

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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

ACCESS Resources for Classroom Use
ByteBoost Cybertraining Workshop
ACCESS Year 2 Program Highlights Booklet
Student Training and Engagement Program

Opportunities

Events and Trainings

Community Announcements

Science Stories

enabled by ACCESS

Simulating Supermassive Black Holes

A multi-institutional group of researchers is using Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center’s Bridges-2 to understand the emissions from active galactic nuclei better.

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Finding the Music in Math

A professor at Indiana University uses the University’s Jetstream2 supercomputer to teach musicians statistics by connecting their musical talents with mathematical skills.

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Simulated Alloys

MIT researchers use an ACCESS allocation on Expanse at the San Diego Supercomputer Center to deploy a machine learning method to decode chemical patterns in metallic alloys.

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What's New?

ACCESS Resources Available for Classroom Use

Attention students and educators: With the fall semester soon beginning, keep in mind that ACCESS resources are available for students, instructors and classroom projects.

Explore ACCESS, the smallest-scale projects, are a great fit for smaller classes and training events. Graduate students are eligible to be principal investigators (PIs) on Explore ACCESS projects.

Discover ACCESS projects, offering medium-scale allocations, are excellent for larger classes and training events. For these projects, NSF graduate student Fellows and honorable mention recipients can serve as PIs.

Both types of requests are accepted anytime, and multiple requests are allowed. Take advantage of ACCESS resources this semester to set up students for HPC success!

Learn more about types of allocations

Read our story on expanding ACCESS to students

Join the ByteBoost Cybertraining Workshop

The ByteBoost team is excited to announce additional openings for the ByteBoost Cybertraining in-person workshop, Aug. 5 – 8 at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center. This program is designed to boost researchers' proficiency in cutting-edge computing technologies. The workshop is a chance to immerse yourself in an intensive week-long experience designed to provide hands-on learning using the featured testbed architectures. Program highlights include:

Hands-on learning: Work directly with advanced computing technology testbeds like Ookami, Neocortex, and ACES and learn from experts.
Project flexibility: Work on your own projects or join a group.
Comprehensive support: Travel, lodging, breakfast and lunch are covered!

Why participate? Cybertraining means the chance to gain practical experience with modern computing technologies and network with technical professionals and researchers. Plus, we pay for travel, lodging and meals! Don't miss this chance to advance your computing capabilities. Reach out quickly, as there are limited spots available. To register, please send an email to byteboost24@easychair.org and include your name, affiliation, role, whether you have a project you'd like to port on one or multiple testbeds, or if you'd like to join an existing project. The ByteBoost team looks forward to hearing from you!

ByteBoost Cybertraining Workshop: Aug 5 – 8, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center

Information on ByteBoost

ACCESS Year 2 Program Highlights Book Now Available

ACCESS debuted its annual highlights booklet at the PEARC24 conference held last week in Providence, RI. The booklet, covering Program Year 2, includes a letter from all of the 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.

We invite you to download and share this digital version with anyone you feel could benefit from free access to cyberinfrastructure resources for their research!

Download the ACCESS highlights booklet

Spotlight

The Next Step

The Student Training and Engagement Program (STEP) is one of the successes of the ACCESS program. Envisioned as a way to bring new experts into the field of cyberinfrastructure, STEP has promoted the development of a diverse, competitive STEM workforce by providing opportunities to students, with a focus on recruiting and enrolling those from underrepresented groups (Black, Hispanic, American Indian, Asian and any who identify as women.

“Our main goal is to contribute to raising the level of awareness about cyberinfrastructure as a viable career path while also providing students with high-quality training that will lead them in the workforce,” said Winona Snapp-Childs, Ph.D., STEP director and chief operating officer of Indiana University’s Pervasive Technology Institute (PTI). “It’s important that our current cyberinfrastructure expertise gets shared with the next generation of cyberinfrastructure professionals.”

Last summer, ACCESS interviewed several students in the second stage of the program – STEP-2. Once the summer ended, students interested in the academic year internship portion of the program, STEP-3, would continue a yearlong journey in the world of high-performance computing. ACCESS caught up with two of the interns who recently completed the final stage of the program and spoke with them about their experiences.

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Events & Trainings

Community Announcements

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