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Advancing Open Science through High Throughput Computing

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OSDF

The OSDF enables users and institutions to share data files and storage capacity.

Leveraging the OSDF, providers can make their datasets available to a wide variety of compute users, such as:
  • Browsers
  • Jupyter Notebooks
  • HTC Environments, such as the OSPool
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OSPool

No Proposal, No Allocation, No Cost

The OSPool provides its users with fair-share access to compute and storage capacity contributed by university campuses, and government-supported supercomputing institutions.

Sign up now and join the hundreds of researchers and educators already using the OSPool!

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Advancing Science Internationally Through Collaboration

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator, with two high-energy particle beams traveling at close to the speed of light before they are made to collide. But how do particle collisions go from data plots to groundbreaking scientific advancements, like confirming the existence of the Higgs-Boson Particle?

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What We Do

The OSG facilitates access to distributed high throughput computing for research in the US. The resources accessible through the OSG are contributed by the community, organized by the OSG, and governed by the OSG consortium. In the last 12 months, we have provided more than 1.2 billion CPU hours to researchers across a wide variety of projects.

Submit Locally, Run Globally

Researchers can run jobs on OSG from their home institution or an OSG-Operated Access Point (available for US-based research and scholarship).

Sharing Is Key

Sharing is a core principle of the OSG. Over 100 million CPU hours delivered on the OSG in the past year were opportunistic, contributed by university campuses, government-supported supercomputing facilities and research collaborations. Sharing allows individual researchers to access larger computing resources and large organizations to keep their utilization high.

Resource Providers

The OSG consists of computing and storage elements at over 100 individual sites spanning the United States. These sites, primarily at universities and national labs, range in size from a few hundred to tens of thousands of CPU cores.

The OSG Software Stack

The OSG provides an integrated software stack to enable high throughput computing; visit our technical documents website for information.

Coordinating CI Services

NSF’s Blueprint for National Cyberinfrastructure Coordination Services lays out the need for coordination services to bring together the distributed elements of a national CI ecosystem. It highlights OSG as providing distributed high throughput computing services to the U.S. research community.

Find Us

Contribute Resources

Are you a resource provider wanting to join our collaboration? We’d love to hear from you.

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Access Computing

Want more computing capacity? Check with your local providers, or use an Access Point with access to the OSPool (US-based academic, government, and non-profit research).

OSG-Operated Access Point

Get in Touch

For any other inquiries, reach out and our team will be happy to help.

[email protected]

Explore Our Impact

See the breadth of the OSG’s impact through our accounting portal.

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Support

The activities of the OSG Consortium are supported by multiple projects and in-kind contributions from members. Significant funding is provided through:

The Partnership to Advance Throughput Computing (PATh) is an NSF-funded (#2030508) project to address the needs of the rapidly growing community embracing Distributed High Throughput Computing (dHTC) technologies and services to advance their research.

The Institute for Research and Innovation in Software for High Energy Physics (IRIS-HEP) is an NSF-funded (#1836650) software institute established to meet the software and computing challenges of the HL-LHC, through R&D for the software for acquiring, managing, processing and analyzing HL-LHC data.