ACCESS

The NSF’s ACCESS (Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Coordination Ecosystem: Services & Support) program builds upon the successes of the 11-year XSEDE project.

NSF funded supercomputers, like PSC are available via the ACCESS federated system.  Besides parallel or memory-intensive computing options, there are many GPU resources available to ACCESS users via the Credit Marketplace.

1. If you are a Graduate Student, all you need is an account, your CV, a 1-paragraph abstract and a letter from your advisor.  With these 4 items, you can complete a simple form and get up to 400,000 cpu-hours to exchange for access to most of the nations supercomputing cyberinfrastructure. Checkout the following link.
    
2. If you previously held an XSEDE account, you can login here: https://identity.access-ci.org/new-user-federated and complete your account transition from XSEDE to ACCESS by selecting “ACCESS CI (XSEDE)” and subsequently login using Andrew Web Login.  You will then be guided through a short verification process similar to any other website.
    
3. If you are new to the department or supercomputing in general, I set up a new account so you will be able to access (no pun intended) these resources easily now or in the future.  Visit https://identity.access-ci.org/new-user-federated to set up a new account -  make sure to choose “Carnegie Mellon University”!
    
4. The interface to the Supercomputing Credit Market is still being improved, but we are working on documentation to address that.

This will shortly be updated to add easy access to ACCESS On-Ramps: