All ACCESS DARWIN Users,
After five years of enabling research and discovery, the University of Delaware will be decommissioning DARWIN resources from ACCESS on October 1, 2025.
Email was sent on June 2, 2025, to all active ACCESS DARWIN award PIs regarding the decommissioning and calling on them to plan for and transition their work off DARWIN. This includes moving all necessary data off the system and transferring any remaining DARWIN allocation SU balances to another resource or back to ACCESS Credits.
Everyone with an ACCESS DARWIN account (xsedeu<<uid-number>>) is also strongly encouraged to log in to DARWIN to review and transfer any necessary data from their user home directory ($HOME) off the system prior to the decommission date. Users are reminded that they also have personal storage in each project to which they are a member ($WORKDIR_USER) that should be handled in like fashion.
University of Delaware staff request that all users begin data transfers before September 17, 2025 to afford enough time for all concerns to be addressed prior to the decommission date. For information regarding:
- transferring files off DARWIN, please visit the DARWIN -> Transfer Files
- all other questions or concerns, please open a support ticket at ACCESS Support and select "yes" for help with an ACCESS resource and "DARWIN" as the resource
Thank you for your understanding and cooperation as we prepare to decommission the DARWIN resources from ACCESS.