For Educators
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Welcome! ACCESS can help support you in teaching students how to use computational tools and mentoring them in HPC techniques. If you’re new to ACCESS, learn more.
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Learn More About ACCESS
How can I use ACCESS in the classroom?
There are several ways you may be able to use ACCESS for teaching purposes:
Explore Science Gateways
Science Gateways provide user-friendly online interfaces to cyberinfrastructure, and support a community-specific set of tools, applications and data collections. Explore the Science Gateways catalog to see if a gateway provides the tools you need for your class. These gateways can be used without requesting your own ACCESS allocation and may provide easy access for your students.
Request an ACCESS Allocation
Most classroom needs can likely be met with a Discover ACCESS allocation, which is designed to cater to small-scale research activities. You'll need to provide a one-page description of the classroom activity to request an allocation.
In your proposal specify when and how long your class will meet, how many students you'd like to accommodate, and the amount of data you expect to need, if you know. ACCESS staff will let you know if your needs are likely to require more resources than the Discover allocation can provide. Additional Information about how to prepare the request is available.
Which ACCESS resources would be appropriate for my class?
You can explore available resources through the Resource Catalog, which provides descriptions of available resources and relevant information such as availability of GPUs.
The ACCESS Resource Advisor (ARA) provides another method to find suitable resources by asking questions about your research domain, software needed, hardware requirements and other information to make recommendations.
If you're looking for particular software, say Jupyter Notebooks or Open OnDemand, you might find the Software Documentation Service (SDS) useful to explore which resources provide the software you need.
Where can I find trainings?
Upcoming training events are listed on the ACCESS website Events & Trainings page which is found on the top bar of the ACCESS website or on the ACCESS Support homepage. If you join an Affinity Group you'll get notified of trainings recommended by your Resource Provider or your community group.
The ACCESS Knowledge Base includes training material contributed by the community on a variety of topics of interest.
Where can I find documentation about using ACCESS resources?
The ACCESS Documentation pages contain articles, training materials, user guides, and various other sources of information to assist researchers in effectively utilizing ACCESS resources and services.
The ACCESS Knowledge Base includes documentation contributed by the community on a variety of topics of interest.
Get Started With ACCESS
How do I begin using ACCESS?
To use ACCESS resources and manage your project, create an account.
Register for an ACCESS ID
ID Management FAQ
What support is available to instructors to aid student work?
http://Ask.CI
http://Ask.CI is the Q&A forum for the research computing community. Ask a question, answer a question, add to the discussion.
XDMoD Usage Reports
Reports are available through XDMoD with job performance information. Instructors and students may be able to use this data to understand what went wrong in their work. There's a delay in reporting, so data may not be available immediately.
Campus Champions
Campus Champions provide information on ACCESS and cyberinfrastructure resources to researchers and educators on their campuses and they assist users to quickly get start-up allocations of computing time. Find a Champion on your campus!
CCMNet
CCMNet facilitates CI mentorship connections and knowledge exchange with other mentor-centric programs, reaching out to under-served groups and providing best practices and guidance on mentorship to benefit the entire CI community. Review currently available mentorships or request a new mentorship engagement to assist with your needs.
Open a help ticket
Still need help? Open a ticket and ACCESS or appropriate Resource Provider staff will be happy to answer your questions.
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How do I add students to an allocation?
All students must have their own ACCESS IDs. Student accounts can be added to an allocation by the allocation PI or others designated as resource manager using those ACCESS IDs. Add them to the appropriate resources under the Activity section of your project’s management page. https://allocations.access-ci.org/login
Once student accounts are added through the Allocations portal, it may take some time for those accounts to be added on the allocated resource. The time required to add students to an allocation may vary by resource provider, but the general recommendation would be to allow at least one week for new students to be added to the allocation.
How to add a user
Allocation management
How can I get involved in the ACCESS community?
There are many opportunities for researchers to get involved with the ACCESS community.
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“Hands-on usage of state-of-the-art computing facilities, such as those provided by ACCESS, provides a unique learning experience for our students – setting them up to make an immediate impact in their chosen field.” – Vijay Varma, Assistant Professor of Mathematics, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth