OSG’s Support for Campus Cyberinfrastructure Awardees

Enhancing the capacity of Research Computing of US campuses through local deployment and cross campus sharing is fully aligned with the vision of our NSF funded project - Partnership to Advance Throughput Computing (PATh). Our project is committed to supporting CC* projects through deployment and operation.

Support for CC* Campuses

Campuses that hold a CC* award can draw on the OSG Consortium and PATh throughout the life of their award. Our teams have experience with each of the following aspects of a CC* project:

  • Sharing data with authorized users via the Open Science Data Federation (OSDF)
  • Bringing the power of high throughput computing via the OSPool to your researchers
  • Meeting the resource sharing commitments in your award, and other options for integrating with the OSG Consortium
  • Providing connections to help with data storage systems for shared inter-campus or intra-campus resources
  • Building regional computing networks
  • Developing science gateways to utilize high throughput computing via the OSPool

Please do not hesitate to contact us at [email protected] with questions about any of the above.

Deployment

Our experienced and friendly team of engineers and facilitators is dedicated to supporting system engineers and campus research groups. This team provides networking, computing and data storage consulting, providing expertise and guidance.

These teams support your award to ensure smooth integration and onboarding into the OSPool or OSDF. The facilitation team also provides extensive support to researchers with regular training, weekly office hours, documentation, videos and more.

Please contact us at [email protected] to schedule a consultation to discuss deployment of OSG resources at your campus.

Operation

After your campus has integrated with the OSPool or OSDF, our team offers continued support to make the best use of computational resources at your campus. This includes troubleshooting of OSG services as well as providing accounting data for the research projects and kinds of research making use of your resources. Also, our CC* liaison will meet with you periodically to see how things are going and what we can do to better support you.

Our staff remains available to assist you with meeting your goals as your research computing needs evolve. If you or your researchers have any questions or issues, please contact us at [email protected].

CC* Campus impact on Open Science

The OSG Consortium has worked with CC* campuses for many years. These campuses have made significant contributions in support of science, both on their own campus and for the entire country.

Computing

Campuses contribute core hours to researchers via the OSPool, a compute resource accessible to any researcher affiliated with a US academic institution. These contributions support more than 230 research groups, campuses, multi-campus collaborations, and gateways, and in fields of study ranging from the medicine to economics, and from genomics to physics.

Data Storage

The Open Science Data Federation integrates data origins, making data accessible via caches, of which many are strategically located in the R&E network backbone. CC* awards for data storage require interoperability with a national and federated data sharing fabric such as PATh/OSDF.