October 2026 • Nsdf-in-media

Turning HPC Stewardship into Research Opportunities

October 14th, 2026.
ACCESS.

High-performance computing (HPC) has become essential for modern research, but many faculty at smaller, teaching-focused institutions struggle to integrate these resources into their classrooms and research programs. A new study using the U.S. National Science Foundation ACCESS program and the National Science Data Fabric (NSDF) shows that success depends on more than hardware. It depends on support, training and easy-to-use pathways that help researchers get started quickly.

Michela Taufer, MathWorks Professor of High-Performance Computing at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UT Knoxville), co-director of the National Science Data Fabric (NSDF), and founding director of the Global Computing Lab, is part of the research team that recently published a paper in Computing in Science & Engineering…