To get started, you need an ACCESS project and some resource units you can spend.
Your ACCESS project and resource units are what we refer to as an Allocation.
An allocation is your project to use a portion of a shared resource.
Through ACCESS, you can get an allocation to use computing and data resources to accomplish your research
or classroom objectives.
We've got modeling and analysis systems, GPU-oriented systems, large-memory nodes, storage, and more. Resource providers have designed their systems to serve a wide range of research and education needs — including yours!
It costs you nothing (really!), and you don't need an NSF award. To begin, you just need to
775 projects were awarded to 758 researchers and educators at 252 institutions.
4,495,472 jobs from 8,306 users on 4,482 projects were reported by 23 resources.
315 publications were reported by 184 researchers in 46 fields of science.
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