The Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Coordination Ecosystem: Services & Support (ACCESS) program is a National Science Foundation-funded virtual organization that facilitates cyberinfrastructure (CI) support for research. Through ACCESS, researchers can request time allocated from a large network of CI resources such as advanced computing, data resources and analysis, visualization and storage. The ACCESS CI ecosystem is essential to computational and data-intensive research a the goal of providing a seamless collaboration between resources and researchers.
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ACCESS Support provides cost-effective scaled support to the broad scientific community using national cyberinfrastructure. These democratized efforts comprises comprise three major themes: (1) leverage modern information delivery systems to simplify user interfaces; (2) leverage experts from the community to develop training materials and instructions that can dramatically reduce the user learning curve for several increasingly important CI computational techniques; and (3) employ a matchmaking service that will maintain a database of specialist mentors and student mentees that can be matched with projects to provide the domain-specific expertise needed to leverage ACCESS resources.
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