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ACCESS-CI Jetstream2

ACCESS-CI Jetstream2 is an advanced cloud-based computing platform designed to support the NSF’s science and engineering community. 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.

Key Features​

  • Interactive Computing: It provides a library of virtual machines and shared software designed to create research infrastructure or to perform discipline-specific scientific analysis. Software creators and researchers can create their own customized virtual machines (VM) or their own private computing system within Jetstream2.
  • Scalability: Users can easily scale resources to accommodate the computational demands of their projects, from small-scale analyses to large, compute-intensive jobs.
  • Accessibility: Ensures that cutting-edge computational resources are accessible to researchers across the United States, regardless of their institution's infrastructure.

Accessing Jetstream2​

  • Jetstream2 is primarily accessible through the Exosphere web interface using ACCESS credentials via CI Login.

  • Newly created ACCESS accounts must be added to a Jetstream2 specific allocation by the PI or Resource manager in order to access Jetstream2.

  • Jetstream2 is meant primarily for interactive research, small scale processing on demand, or as the backend to science gateways to send research jobs to other HPC or HTC resources, or for general infrastructure for research or research-related development.

  • Jetstream2 may be used for prototyping, for creating tailored workflows to either use at smaller scale with a handful of CPUs or to port to larger environments after doing your proof of concept work at a smaller level.

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