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OSG Collaboration Support

Welcome to OSG/PATh Collaboration Support

Our mission is to empower research collaborations by helping teams leverage the services and technologies of the OSG Consortium. With our support, researchers can overcome institutional barriers and access powerful computing and storage resources.

Simplified Collaboration Access Across Institutions

Collaborations often involve researchers from multiple institutions, which can create challenges when institutional-specific identities are required. The OSG Collaboration Access Point (Collab AP) resolves this by enabling principal investigators (PIs) to create projects that include members from all participating institutions. This streamlined approach fosters seamless collaboration, allowing teams to:

  • Access the OSPool for launching compute jobs
  • Utilize multi-terabyte ephemeral storage
  • Run complex workflows, such as post-processing, directly on the access point (login node)
  • Utilize the Open Science Data Federation to distribute your data production to execution points at global scale

To explore the full range of services, visit our services page or reach out to collab-support@osg-htc.org.

Getting Started with Your Project

Principal Investigators (PIs) can easily create and manage projects through the Accounting Portal. When a PI signs up with their CI-Logon credentials, they can:

  • Request to join the PATh Collaborations group
  • Request to create an accounting group for the collaboration
  • When these requests are approved, the PI can then add team members to collaborate seamlessly.

Before proceeding, a consultation with our Collaboration Support team is required to better understand the science case, computational and storage requirements. Please email us at collab-support@osg-htc.org.

News

11/21/2024

The Open Science Data Platorm (OSDF) origin that was deployed on the OSG Collab AP, ap23.uc.osg-htc.org, has moved to a separate infrastructure to accommodate upgrading to the Pelican data distribution platform and allow for users at other APs use the backend storage. For more details refer to this section.

04/18/2023

A new Collab AP host, ap23.uc.osg-htg.org. has been deployed which will replace the existing one, login.collab.ci-connect.net. Users and projects from login.collab.ci-connect.net have moved to the new one. Users are responsible for migrating their data and make any necessary corrections to their workflows. Collaboration Support staff will be available to assist.

Regular Meeting schedule

Recurring meeting schedule is here

Contact Us

  • For technical support of existing project create a ticket by sending an email to [email protected]. Please, ensure that you mention in your email the name of your collaboration and the access point where you have an account.
  • For new projects and to learn more about OSG/PATh collaborations services please email: collab-support@osg-htc.org.