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
757 projects were awarded to 739 researchers and educators at 247 institutions.
4,575,466 jobs from 8,287 users on 4,432 projects were reported by 22 resources.
288 publications were reported by 171 researchers in 41 fields of science.
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