ACCESS Our impact

Citation

ACCESS (Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Coordination Ecosystem: Services and Support), U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF). “Impact.” ACCESS web page, numbers “Updated 9/14/26”. https://access-ci.org/about/impact/. Read 2026-10-15.

Bottom line

• ACCESS reports 67,925 “Users with an allocation” and 2,055 “Research institutions served” since its launch in September 2022. The page dates the numbers “9/14/26”.
• ACCESS reports a “900%” “Increase in AI-related project activity”.

Background

The page lists the ACCESS program numbers and five user quotes. It is the “Our impact” page that the ACCESS homepage source page named as a gap.

Key claims

• “in a given month, more than 2.5 million jobs are run on average by more than 4,000 researchers representing more than 2,000 unique research projects.” (top section; no date)
• Section “ACCESS by the numbers”, “Since September 2022 program launch”, “Updated 9/14/26”:
  • “67,925” “Users with an allocation”
  • “900%” “Increase in AI-related project activity”
  • “9,176” “Publications in which ACCESS was cited”
  • “1,486” “Events and trainings created”
  • “2,055” “Research institutions served”
  • “82” “Fields of science participating”
  • “55” “Total ACCESS-allocated resources”
  • “>10.6” “Billion CPU hours logged”
  • “100%” “Increase in the number of ACCESS projects and PIs compared to XSEDE”
  • “50+” “ACCESS users hail from every US state including DC and Puerto Rico”
  • “60” “Participants in the workforce development STEP Program”
• A search and rescue volunteer, Gary Bloom: “If we didn’t have outside organizations helping with some of the resources, the cost of compute capacity, the accessibility of the capacity, would just be out of reach”. (section “What the research community is saying”)

Evidence and method

The page states counts with no method. It links to XDMoD (https://xdmod.access-ci.org/) for more metrics.

Limits

• “900%” has no base year or base value.
• The monthly average in the top section has no date range.
• The page does not split the numbers by state. The “50+” item says only that users come from every state.
• ACCESS selected the quotes. They are not evidence of typical use.