1. A method, on an accelerator system, for accessing data in an out-of-core processing environment, the method comprising: receiving a data access configuration from a server system managing a plurality of data sets; determining, based on the data access configuration, that data sets retrieved from the server system are to be stored locally; receiving, from a user client, a request to interact with a given data set; retrieving at least a portion of the given data set from the server system; and storing the at least a portion of the given data set locally in a memory based on the data access configuration that has been received.