ACCESS

Funding the Future.

The Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Coordination Ecosystem: Services & Support (ACCESS) is a powerful collection of integrated digital resources and services – things like supercomputers, visualization and storage systems, collections of data, software, networks, and expert support – that scientists, engineers, social scientists and humanities experts around the country use to advance understanding of our world and to make our lives healthier, safer and better. ACCESS integrates these resources and services and makes them easier for more people to use. The five-year, $52 million project is supported by the National Science Foundation and led, in part, by NCSA.

NCSA Leadership

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John Towns

PI/ ACCESS Coordination Office (ACO)

The ACO provides coordination and support services, and staffing for top-level coordination and communications among the ACCESS awardees and with the public. This includes:

  • support for top-level inter-awardee governance
  • coordination of an external advisory board to the ACCESS awardees
  • maintenance of the main ACCESS website
  • coordinated community-building activities

Timothy Boerner

Operations and Integration Services

The Operations and Integration Services project comprises three defined activities:

  • cybersecurity support
  • operational support
  • data and networking support
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What Does ACCESS DO?

Read more about the program here.

News

A glowing DNA double helix sits atop a computer chip. Meant to convey the use of HPC in genetics research.

Capturing and Controlling the Movement of Genes

Researchers use supercomputers, including Delta, to build an atom-thin platform to film DNA in real-time.
An image of a spacecraft launching with a great number of rockets visible, blasting off fire.

It is Rocket Science

Using a new algorithm and NCSA’s DeltaAI, a team of researchers reduced the energy cost of simulations by over 500% to help design safer and more efficient spacecraft.
A visualization showing how staph infections can start on the skin.

NCSA’s Delta Assists Potential Staph Infection Breakthrough

Illustration of the molecular handshake driving Staphylococcus aureus adhesion to human skin. The bacterial adhesin SdrD (purple) binds tightly to the host receptor desmoglein-1 (DSG-1, orange) on keratinocytes, with calcium
A digital picture of a brain over a circuitboard.

Breaking Barriers – Delta Helps Reveal the Brain’s Gatekeeper

Researchers from Cornell University use Delta to explore how a protein in the blood-brain barrier could be the key to better deliver treatments to the brain.
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