ACCESS

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Funding the Future.

The Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Coordination Ecosystem: Services & Support (ACCESS) is a powerful collection of integrated digital resources and services – things like supercomputers, visualization and storage systems, collections of data, software, networks, and expert support – that scientists, engineers, social scientists and humanities experts around the country use to advance understanding of our world and to make our lives healthier, safer and better. ACCESS integrates these resources and services and makes them easier for more people to use. The five-year, $52 million project is supported by the National Science Foundation and led, in part, by NCSA.

NCSA Leadership

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John Towns

PI/ ACCESS Coordination Office (ACO)

The ACO provides coordination and support services, and staffing for top-level coordination and communications among the ACCESS awardees and with the public. This includes:

  • support for top-level inter-awardee governance
  • coordination of an external advisory board to the ACCESS awardees
  • maintenance of the main ACCESS website
  • coordinated community-building activities

Timothy Boerner

Operations and Integration Services

The Operations and Integration Services project comprises three defined activities:

  • cybersecurity support
  • operational support
  • data and networking support
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What Does ACCESS DO?

Read more about the program here.

News

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Simplifying HPC Access

Open OnDemand, a browser-based portal, enables broad access to high-performance computing at NCSA.
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Less is Sometimes More

Researchers at the University of Illinois use NCSA’s Delta supercomputer to help prove that sometimes less data is better when training AI chatbots.
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Using Delta to Help Shape Better Mental Health

Researchers at the University of Illinois utilize NCSA resources to develop tools for monitoring anxiety in real time.
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Capturing and Controlling the Movement of Genes

Researchers use supercomputers, including Delta, to build an atom-thin platform to film DNA in real-time.

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