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Campus Contributor Documentation

These pages are intended for current and potential campus contributors to the Open Science Data Federation (OSDF) and Open Science Pool (OSPool), including cluster administrators, project PIs and leadership, and campus staff who facilitate the use of clusters.

Please let us know how we can improve these pages to better support you!

Open Science Data Federation (OSDF)

The Open Science Data Federation (OSDF) connects disparate dataset repositories into a single, nationwide data distribution network.

At this time, information about contributing to the OSDF is located on our main OSDF webpage.

Open Science Pool (OSPool)

The Open Science Pool (OSPool) presents a unified means of accessing computing capacity that is shared from campuses nationwide via a single HTCondor pool. This pool is accessible to any researcher affiliated with a US academic institution.

Want to contribute to the OSPool from your campus?

Get started on our OSPool integration page.

Already contributing to the OSPool?

  • Learn more about your contributions and how researchers benefit from them
  • See how to investigate live OSPool jobs on your system
  • Check our list of suggested maintenance tasks and when to contact us about the integration

Community

Participate in the community of OSDF and OSPool campus contributors!

There are several ways to participate:

  • Join our Campus Contributors mailing list (a Google Group). We send one or two emails per week, mostly just announcements of the Campus Meet-Ups. Email us with email addresses to add.

  • Participate in the weekly Campus Meet-Ups on Zoom, Wednesdays at 11:00am to noon, US Central Time. The virtual meeting link is included in email announcements, or email us for the link.

  • Join our OSG Consortium Slack Workspace; email us with email addresses to invite.

  • Attend our annual Throughput Computing Week event. HTC26 will be held 9–12 June 2026 at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

  • If suitable, apply to join the OSG School.