Affinity Groups

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Affinity Groups encourage community members to gather based on common interests, and they provide connections to AG-specific slack channels, Q&A Forums, events, and relevant knowledge base resources. Joining ACCESS Resource Provider Affinity Groups (AGs) will add you to the distribution list for notifications about outages, news, and training events specific to the Resource Provider named. If you would like to create a new Affinity Group, please submit a request form and we will respond within five business days. Thank you!

Affinity Group	Description	Tags	Join
ArcGIS Users	People who are users or supporting users of ArcGIS and other geographic information system tools.	arcgis, geographic-information-system	Login to join
Ask.CI Moderators	Site Moderators and Locale Moderators for the Ask.CI Q&A platform for Research Computing.	community-outreach, professional-development, technical-training-for-hpc, workforce-development	Login to join
Campus Champions	The Campus Champions comprise a thriving community of practice for research computing, data and software professionals.	community-outreach, management, professional-development, workforce-development	Login to join
Campus Champions Region 1	Affinity group for legacy Campus Champions Region 1 covering Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington State.	community-outreach, professional-development	Login to join
Campus Champions Region 2	Affinity group for legacy Campus Champions Region 2 covering Arizona, California, Hawaii, and Nevada.	community-outreach	Login to join
Campus Champions Region 3	Affinity group for legacy Campus Champions Region 3 covering Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota and Wisconsin.	community-outreach	Login to join
Campus Champions Region 4	Affinity group for legacy Campus Champions Region 4, covering Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Texas.	community-outreach	Login to join
Campus Champions Region 5	Affinity group for legacy Campus Champions Region 5 covering Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and	community-outreach	Login to join
Campus Champions Region 6	Affinity group for legacy Campus Champions Region 6, covering Delaware, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virg	community-outreach	Login to join
Campus Champions Region 7	Affinity group for legacy Campus Champions Region 7 covering Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island and Vermont.	community-outreach	Login to join
Cloud Computing	People who use or are considering the use of cloud resources for research computing.	cloud-commercial, cloud-open-source, cloud-storage	Login to join
Connect CI Alliance	People who have or are thinking about adding a Portal View on Connect.Cyberinfrastructure.org		Login to join
High Performance Visualization	This affinity group will work to strengthen understanding and dissemination of best practices related to visualization and rendering of data on HPC systems. A focus here will be on remote visualization techniques, and low level headless rendering strategies.	open-ondemand, gpu, vnc	Login to join
hpc.social	High Performance Computing and related fields such as Big Data, Research Computing, and related hardware and software engineering and development, cloud and data center operations, and career development.	administering-hpc, cluster-management, cluster-support, distributed-computing, file-systems	Login to join
Large Data Sets	For people who evaluate or use storage options for researchers with large data sets.	cloud-storage, big-data, data-transfer, open-storage-network, s3	Login to join
Quantum Computing	Researchers and enthusiasts interested in discussing quantum computing topics.	quantum-computing	Login to join
R for HPC	People who use r on HPC systems and want to exchange experiences, best practices and/or collaborate.	r	Login to join
RMACC/Campus Champions Region 8	Affinity group representing the Rocky Mountain Advanced Computing Consortium and the legacy Campus Champions Region 8.	community-outreach, professional-development, workforce-development	Login to join
Small Scale Research Computing Groups	A group for people supporting small scale HPC groups at their institution.		Login to join
ACCESS Facilitators	People who use or support people who use ACCESS resources and the ACCESS Resource Allocation System.	research-facilitation	Login to join
ACCESS RP Integration	ACCESS RPs and ACCESS RP Coordinator space for information dissemination and discussion.		Login to join
ACCESS Support	Become an ACCESS Support insider by joining our affinity group.		Login to join
Anvil	Purdue University is the home of Anvil, a powerful new supercomputer that provides advanced computing capabilities to support a wide range of computational and data-intensive research spanning from traditional high-performance computing to modern artificial intelligence applications.	gpu	Login to join
Bridges-2	Bridges-2, a resource of Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, is designed for converged HPC + AI + Data.		Login to join
DARWIN	DARWIN (Delaware Advanced Research Workforce and Innovation Network) is a big data and high performance computing system designed to catalyze Delaware research and education funded by a $1.4 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF).	big-data	Login to join
DELTA	DELTA is a dedicated, ACCESS-allocated resource designed by HPE and NCSA, delivering a highly capable GPU-focused compute environment for GPU and CPU workloads.	gpu	Login to join
Expanse	Expanse is a dedicated ACCESS cluster designed by Dell and SDSC delivering 5.16 peak petaflops, and will offer Composable Systems and Cloud Bursting.	composable-systems, gpu	Login to join
FASTER	Fostering Accelerated Scientific Transformations, Education, and Research (FASTER) is a NSF-MRI-funded cluster (award number 2019129) that offers state of the art CPUs, GPUs, and NVMe (Non-Volatile MemoryExpress) based storage in a composable environment.		Login to join
Jetstream-2	Jetstream2 is a transformative update to the NSF’s science and engineering cloud infrastructure and provides 8 petaFLOPS of supercomputing power to simplify data analysis, boost discovery, and increase availability of AI resources. It is an NSF-funded, user-friendly cloud environment designed to allow “always on” research infrastructure and to give researchers access to interactive computing and data analysis resources on demand, whenever and wherever they want to analyze their data.	cloud-open-source, cloud-storage, openstack, ai, machine-learning	Login to join
KyRIC	The KyRIC cluster will advance several exciting research programs across many disciplines, such as Bioinformatics and System Biology Algorithms, Large Graph and Evolutionary Network Analysis, Image Processing, and Computational Modeling and Simulation.		Login to join
OOKAMI	Ookami is a computer technology testbed supported by the National Science Foundation under grant OAC 1927880. It provides researchers with access to the A64FX processor developed by Riken and Fujitsu for the Japanese path to exascale computing and is currently deployed in the until June 2022 fastest computer in the world, Fugaku.		Login to join
Open OnDemand	For users and facilitators of Open OnDemand. Open OnDemand provides an intuitive, innovative, and interactive interface to remote computing resources. Open OnDemand helps computational researchers and students efficiently utilize remote computing resources by making them easy to access from any device.	ondemand, administering-hpc, cluster-management, cluster-support, hpc-operations	Login to join
Open Science Grid	The OSG provides technologies and services for supporting pools of distributed high-throughput computing (dHTC) and data capacity that serve a number of research communities, worldwide. Among these services, the OSG operates the Open Science Pool (OSPool), which includes capacity contributed from clusters at campuses and national labs across and beyond the US, organized as a single virtual cluster.		Login to join
Open Storage Network	The Open Storage Network (OSN) is a distributed data sharing and transfer service intended to facilitate exchanges of active scientific data sets between research organizations, communities and projects, providing easy access and high bandwidth delivery of large data sets to researchers.		Login to join
Pegasus	Pegasus is a workflow management system, which enables you to run computational workflows across ACCESS resources.		Login to join
RANCH	TACC's High Performance Computing (HPC) systems are used primarily for scientific computing and while their disk systems are large, they are unable to store the long-term final data generated on these systems. The Ranch archive system fills this need for high capacity long-term storage, by providing a massive high performance file system and tape-based backing store designed, implemented, and supported specifically for archival purposes.		Login to join
Rockfish	Johns Hopkins University's Rockfish is a community-shared cluster at Johns Hopkins University. It follows the "condominium model" with three main integrated units.		Login to join
Stampede2	Stampede2, generously funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) through award ACI-1540931, is one of the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), University of Texas at Austin's flagship supercomputers.		Login to join
Cybersecurity	For people whose work is impacted by cybersecurity regulations.	cybersecurity, cmmc, cui	Login to join
NSF Cyberinfrastructure Professionals	People involved with the NSF-funded CyberTraining CIP class awards or Strengthening the Cyberinfrastructure Professionals Ecosystem (SCIPE) program	professional-development, training	Login to join