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Users should expect that the AMP will evolve over time and that features will be added. What is available on September 1 will be a first draft of what will eventually be available moving forward.
Globus
The ACCESS Operations is providing a Globus subscription provided by XSEDE to allocated Service Providers will be continued through the first year of ACCESS operations ( August 2023) by the CONECT team. Throughout the first year, CONECT will be working with key stakeholders to either identify a funding mechanism to sustain the subscription for the duration of the ACCESS award, or to retire the Globus subscription at the end of August 2023 alongside recommending alternatives solutions for the Resource Provider community (which could include using free/unpaid Globus endpoints).. After that time Globus will remain the preferred data transfer mechanism. Note that researchers can transfer data using Globus at no charge, and many of the ACCESS-allocated resource providers offer Globus subscriptions that include enhanced features.
CONECTnet
ACCESS wide area network connectivity for RPs is via a Layer3 VPN (L3VPN) provisioned on Internet2, the national research and education (R&E) network backbone provider. The NDTS team is available to facilitate RP integration with CONECTnet and provide network performance consulting upon request.
RAMPS Marketplace
All active XSEDE allocations (with an expiration date beyond September 1, 2022) will be “mapped” to the new ACCESS allocations tiers. More information on the new tiers will be broadcast on the Advance to ACCESS page.
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Questions, comments, or interest in joining the review panel for ACCESS allocations requests, please use this form to contact Allocations.
Ticketing System
Initial service will be a transition of the XSEDE RT system. This will help provide a seamless transition for the community. As additional requirements and innovative approaches are refined, new ticketing services will become available. The tentative team plan is for this to happen by the end of the 2022 calendar year.
Users can expect that they will be able to still ACCESS uses a Jira Service Management-based ticket system. Users submit tickets via a webform that will be is located on in the Support portal.
Open tickets sent to XSEDE prior to September 1, 2022 will need to be resubmitted. These will not automatically be picked up by ACCESS.
Integrating Allocated Compute/Storage/Cloud into ACCESS
The ACCESS program is preparing an “ACCESS Allocated Production Compute/Storage/Cloud” roadmap which lists the tasks that service providers should complete for each resource to be ACCESS allocated and in production on September 1, 2022. Many of these tasks will be familiar to existing XSEDE resource providers as they are adaptations of XSEDE’s resource integration checklist(s) to the ACCESS program. Service providers will receive this integration roadmap before the end of July so that they can complete their ACCESS operational integration by September 1stuses an Integration Roadmaps Framework to define how operators can integrate classes of infrastructure into the ACCESS environment to achieve a defined operational status. This framework defines, for example, how HPC compute clusters can achieve the ACCESS allocated operational status, and will also be used to define how many new classes of emerging infrastructure can integrated to achieve ACCESS allocated, un-allocated, discoverable, or other statuses. Learn more here.
MATCH Tier Support for Researchers
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