How can I renew my Campus Champions allocation under ACCESS?
(discussed in the Campus Champions chat on January 10, 2023)
Starting from the main ACCESS page- https://access-ci.org
On the left of the top blue nav bar, click ALLOCATIONS, which will take you to https://allocations.access-ci.org. Click âManage allocationsâ and select âManage my projectsâ from the drop down.
If you are not logged in, click the blue AUTHENTICATE WITH CILOGIN box. That takes you to the login page. Your XSEDE login and password will work, even if you have not used ACCESS pages yet. Accept the DUO push notification.
You should see your Campus Champions allocation as âCampus Champions TRAXXXXX Lastnameâ. Now from here on is iffyâŚsince I already did this, I canât see exactly what you would see! But here goes, please correct or add as you go along!:
Click the box with âChoose New Actionâ and hopefully they have something like âRenewâ. That will take you to a form asking some basic questions, like âReason for Renewalâ. Under âAvailable Resourcesâ, click the box for ACCESS Credits. Request 1,500,000 credits, as that is the maximum for Discovery level.
I think your CV and a Main Project Description are required documents. Make sure you click the yellow to âAdd New Documentâ. There is a link to either save or to submit. If you save, later on you can go to that Manage my Projects page and click âeditâ.
I made a main document that had what I wrote for âReason for renewalâ. To get text for that, I used the information left over from my previous allocationâŚlater, you can use this to get an idea of how many credits to exchange for based on previous request, which was the maximum SUs for startup requests for that provider.
To find âwhat did I do beforeââŚGo to the same page you got after doing âManage allocations:Manage my projectsâ. Then click the link for your allocation, which is that âCampus Champions TRAXXXXXX Lastnameâ.
My Credits were approved very quickly. They give half of the requested credits. (750,000)
Iâll write something up later about the experience with Transferring credits.
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My CC renewal was up right around the time of the transition from XSEDE. Given that we had little information at the time, I had originally requested only 400,000 credits (and received half). The response time was pretty quick but I found, at the time, the transfer requests were not as timely. Everyone was new at it at the time so I canât complain there. I havenât distributed my credits across all my requested resources as of yet. One issue I had at the time was I had no mechanism to see my running balance as I was requesting transfers. Iâll admit that I havenât checked in a while, so I donât know if there was a change here and such a feature now exists.
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Following up on my own response from January, I noticed the transfer page now lists available credits.