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Affinity Groups

Hubs for links, discussion, and news.

Links to relevant communication channels, documentation, news, and events.

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ACCESS Resource Provider groups provide notifications of outages and trainings.

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A group for CI and RCD professionals responsible for the Account and Access Management solutions at their institutions. Participants can share and discuss the approaches they use for managing accounts, usage tracking and allocations.

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Gathering place for AI researchers to find curated information about using ACCESS resources for AI applications and research.

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Site Moderators and Locale Moderators for the Ask.CI Q&A platform for Research Computing. Site Moderators meet bi-weekly and Locale Moderators meet monthly. New participants welcome!

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The Campus Champions comprise a thriving community of practice for research computing, data and software professionals.

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Affinity group for legacy Campus Champions Region 1 covering Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington State.

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Affinity group for legacy Campus Champions Region 2 covering Arizona, California, Hawaii, and Nevada.

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Affinity group for legacy Campus Champions Region 3 covering Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota and Wisconsin.

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Affinity group for legacy Campus Champions Region 4, covering Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Texas.

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Affinity group for legacy Campus Champions Region 5 covering Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Puerto Rico.

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Affinity group for legacy Campus Champions Region 6, covering Delaware, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia.

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Affinity group for legacy Campus Champions Region 7 covering Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island and Vermont. 

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Cyberinfrastructure Community-Wide Mentorship Network

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People who use or are considering the use of cloud resources for research computing.    

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People who have or are thinking about adding a Portal View on Connect.Cyberinfrastructure.org

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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.

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For groups and people working to build a set of standardized minimal HPC ontologies and metadata. 

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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.

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For people who evaluate or use storage options for researchers with large data sets. 

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People involved with the NSF-funded CyberTraining CIP class awards or Strengthening the Cyberinfrastructure Professionals Ecosystem (SCIPE) program. This includes the trainees, mentors, participants in the CSSN who work with the CIPs and those involved in management or execution of the awards.

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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.

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Researchers and enthusiasts interested in discussing quantum computing topics.

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People who use r on HPC systems and want to exchange experiences, best practices and/or collaborate.

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Affinity group representing the Rocky Mountain Advanced Computing Consortium and the legacy Campus Champions Region 8.

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A group for people supporting small scale HPC groups at their institution. 

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