Congratulations to Francis Halzen, awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics for contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos. IceCube has collaborated with CHTC for over a decade.

Mentorship propels success of CHTC Summer Fellows Program

The NSF-funded Fabric for AI-Driven Science (FabAID) builds on decades of CHTC experience in distributed computing to connect data repositories, computing capacity, and services for researchers at institutions large and small across the nation.

HTCondor European Workshop 2026 to feature discussions on AI

55 researchers from 30 institutions across the US gathered for the 17th annual OSG School in Madison, WI.

Morgridge and UW–Madison team up to provide data services for the AI era

The U.S. National Science Foundation today announced $83 million in awards through the Integrated Data Systems and Services (IDSS) program. The awards will expand access to data infrastructure resources that researchers can use alongside computing and artificial intelligence resources to accelerate scientific discovery and innovation.

For a second year, CHTC hosted undergraduate students from across the nation participating in the UW-Eau Claire Blugold Center for High Performance Computing Summer Research Experience for undergrads for a day of learning, networking, and sharing.

Mentorship and learning go hand in hand at the Center for High Throughput Computing, a culture director Miron Livny has built over the years. Recently recognized by UW–Madison with a Hilldale Award for his devotion to mentorship, research, and service, Livny calls it "really an award to the CHTC."

Scaling machine learning through the power of the Partnership to Advance Throughput Computing (PATh) and the NAIRR Pilot

From 2024 to 2026, the OSPool saw a 48% increase in users, rising to 730 users in 2026 (last 12 months). The OSPool, a shared computing capacity available to researchers at U.S. academic institutions, has seen significant growth in numbers over the last two years.

A conversation with CHTC Web Developer, Cannon Lock.

The second annual CHTC Researcher Forum took place on February 17th 2026, connecting CHTC users and research computing community members across UW-Madison campus. The event started off with an introductory presentation from PI Brian Bockleman, followed by Center for Throughput Computing “CHTC” updates from the Research Facilitation team. UW-Madison alumni Dr. Ariana Neigreiro gave the keynote address on her work using HTCondor, DAGman workflows, and Pelican to develop tools for dairy cattle management.

The Bioinformatics Café is a monthly, hands-on meetup hosted by the Center for High Throughput Computing (CHTC) at UW-Madison, which provides a space for life-science researchers to learn, co-work, and troubleshoot with support from expert facilitators. The Café offers a space to build skills, refine workflows, and connect with fellow researchers solving similar problems in bioinformatics and high-throughput computing.

Showcasing both technical advances and real-world applications of HTCondor, the 2025 HTCondor European Workshop was held at the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences (FZU) in Prague from September 16-19.

HTCondor withstands a massive stress test to prepare the Large Hadron Collider for more data

Dr. Erik Wright, in his presentation “Biological Diversity at an Unfathomable Scale” at HTC25, explored how high-throughput computing and the OSPool is being used to unlock the functions of novel genes.

In the past year, 75 institutions contributed to the OSPool, setting a new record for the number of contributors.

As of February 20th, the Partnership to Advance Throughput Computing (PATh) project is now a listed resource provider for the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) Pilot Project. The PATh project provides allocatable services to support the entire life cycle of AI workloads–training data generation, training data cleaning, model training, and inference (prediction) using AI models.

This feature centers on two news updates from the Center For High Throughput Computing: The CC* (Campus Cyberinfrastructure) PI Workshop and the impacts of HTC on study of Neuroscience and Addiction.

This feature centers on news updates from the Center For High Throughput Computing; ranging from the growing HTC international community to fostering new relationships with other American institutions to centering on the ethics of throughput computing use and distribution.

Astronomers and computer scientists at the University of Hawaiʻi, Moana are unlocking the Sun’s magnetic mysteries with the help of cutting-edge data caching and transfer applications provided by the Pelican Project and the Open Science Data Federation (OSDF).

The 2024 European Autumn HTCondor Workshop set out to grow a community with HTCondor users and developers and to advance scientific research endeavors.

Story on the inaugural 2024 CHTC Fellows Program was designed to immerse undergraduate and graduate students in the world of high throughput computing.

"As a software developer, I could be working at a large tech firm or at Facebook or Google to create a new obscure feature that a few people interact with and feed the pockets of millionaires. Instead, I’m helping the scientific community. It feels awesome, important, to be a part of something like that" -Cole Bollig

Throughput Computing Week 2024 Brings Together the HTC Community

CHTC kicks off its 2024 summer fellowship program.

Salish Kootenai College and CHTC take steps toward bringing underrepresented communities to cyberinfrastructure.

With a multi-day workshop, the museum strives to expand the scale of its educational and training services by bringing additional computing capacity resources to New York-area researchers and tapping into the power of high throughput computing (HTC).

Advancing Open Science: The Pelican Project's Pursuit of Universal Data Accessibility

The ninth 2023 HTCondor European Workshop occurred in Orsay, France, September 19-22

During her two year tenure with the Morgridge Institute for Research - Research Computing lab, Hannah Cheren made significant science writing contributions and along the way changed the direction of her life.

HTCondor Core Developer Greg Thain spoke to UW faculty and researchers about research computing and the missions and goals of the Center for High Throughput Computing (CHTC).

Staff profile of the HTCSS Software Lead, Todd Tannenbaum.

The OSG User School student lightning talks showcased their research, inspiring all the event participants.

After adding Research Computing Facilitators in 2013-2014, CHTC has expanded its reach to support researchers in all disciplines interested in using large-scale computing to support their research through the shared computing capacity offered by the CHTC.

The Center for High-Throughput Computing (CHTC), a joint partnership of UW-Madison School of Computer, Data & Information Sciences and the Morgridge Institute, sees this onslaught of data and says: Bring it on.

The UW-Madison Center for High Throughput Computing’s (CHTC) collaboration with the San Diego Supercomputer Center on the IceCube Neutrino Observatory received recognition with the HPCwire 2022 Readers’ Choice Award for Best Use of High Performance Computing (HPC) in the Cloud (Use Case).

UCSD announces the new PATh Facility and discusses its impact on science.

Lancium, Inc., an energy technology and infrastructure company that advances the decarbonization and stability of the electric power grid, has donated more than 45 million core-hours of computing time to the OSG Consortium, a fabric of distributed High Throughput Computing (dHTC) services in support of the National Science & Engineering community.

This past July, the OSG User School 2022 welcomed students from across the globe to learn how to use high-throughput computing (HTC) in their scientific research.

This year five students from Makerere University in Uganda and the University Of Sciences, Techniques, and Technologies of Bamako in Mali, Africa, participated as a part of The U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and the African Centers for Excellence in Bioinformatics and Data-Intensive Science (ACE) partnership program.

After a week of participating in the OSG User School 60+ students are being released to use impact research across the globe. In this one week event, students learn to run large-scale computing workloads at their campus or using the national-scale OSPool provided by the OSG Consortium.

May 1, 2022 officially marked the retirement of OSG 3.5, GridFTP, and GSI dependencies. OSG 3.6, up and running since February of 2021, is prepared for usage and took its place, relying on WebDAV and bearer tokens.

The OSPool processed over 2.6 million jobs during the week of April 14th - 17th this year and ran over half a million jobs on two separate days that week.

Researchers can now request credits on the PATh Facility, the PATh project’s new service intended for distributed high throughput computing workflows supporting NSF science.

Postdoctoral researcher Parul Johri uses OSG services, the HTCondor Software Suite, and the population genetics simulation program SLiM to investigate historical patterns of genetic variation.

Thank you to all in-person and virtual participants in HTCondor Week 2022. Over the course of the event we had over 40 talks spanning tutorials, applications and science domains using HTCSS. All slides can be found on the event website and we will be publishing all videos on our youtube channel under 'HTCondor Week...

The stunning new image of a supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way was created by eight telescopes, 300 international astronomers and more than 5 million computational tasks. This Morgridge Institute article describes how the Wisconsin-based Open Science Pool helped make sense of it all.

The U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and the African Centers for Excellence in Bioinformatics and Data-Intensive Science (ACE) partnered with the OSG Consortium to host a virtual high throughput computing training session for graduate students from Makerere University and the University Of Sciences, Techniques, and Technologies of Bamako (USTTB).

A mutually beneficial partnership between Jefferson Lab and the OSG Consortium at both the organizational and individual levels has delivered a prolific impact for the CLAS12 Experiment.

David Swanson Memorial Award winner, Connor Natzke’s journey with the OSG Consortium began in 2019 as a student of the OSG User School. Today, nearly three years later, Natzke has executed 600,000 simulations with the help of OSG staff and prior OSG programming. These simulations, each of them submitted as a job, logged over 135,000 core hours provided by the Open Science Pool (OSPool). Natzke’s history with the OSG Consortium reflects a pattern of learning, adapting, and improving that translates to the acceleration and expansion of scientific discovery.

Applications for the OSG User School 2022 have closed. The User School will be held from Monday, July 25 to Friday, July 29 in person at the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.

In March, 251 OSG users, resource providers, and staff convened virtually for the OSG All-Hands Meeting 2022. This article provides a brief summary of the talks and discussions that took place, and includes links to the video recordings of all talks.

Connor Natzke was awarded the 2022 David Swanson Memorial Award at the March OSG All-Hands Meeting. The memorial was established to honor our late colleage David Swanson who contributed to campus research across the country.

Registration for HTCondor Week 2022 is open now. The registration deadline for in-person attendee is May 2, 2022, and the cost is $90 per day. For virtual-only attendance, registration is a flat $25 fee for the whole week.

An evolutionary biologist at the AMNH used HTC services provided by the OSG to unlock a genomic basis for convergent evolution in bats.

Kicking off the OSG User School Showcase, Spencer Ericksen, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Carbone Cancer Center, described how high throughput computing (HTC) has made his work in early-stage drug discovery infinitely more scalable.

During the OSG Virtual School Showcase, three different researchers shared how high throughput computing has made lasting impacts on their work.

During the OSG School Showcase, Hannah Moshontz, a postdoctoral fellow at UW-Madison’s Department of Psychology, described her experience of using high throughput computing (HTC) for the very first time, when taking on an entirely new project within the field of psychology.

Anirvan Shukla, a User School participant in 2016, spoke at this year's Showcase about how high throughput computing has transformed his research of antimatter in the last five years.

How undergraduates at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln developed a science gateway that enables researchers to build RNA nanomachines for therapeutic, engineering, and basic science applications.

Researchers harnassing the capacity of the OSPool are racking up record-breaking numbers. On June 8, the OSPool, which provides computing resources to researchers across the country, went over 1.1 million core hours –– a daily record number. To put this in perspective, one million core hours is equivalent to using...

HTCondor Week 2021 will be a free, virtual event. Registration is open. You can view the detailed schedule here: https://agenda.hep.wisc.edu/event/1579/timetable/#20210524.detailed

The OSG consortium is nearing the completion of migrating its software stack to the WebDAV data transfer protocol - a widely used, industry-compatible and secure protocol. The WebDAV protocol which is an extension of the well-known HTTP allows Third-Party-Copy transfers which are commonly used to move bulk data...

Register now for the online All-Hands Meeting 2021, March 1–5, offered by the OSG. Everyone is invited to attend. Registration is free but required, so please take a minute to register now.

Save the date and register now for another Campus Workshop on distributed high-throughput computing (dHTC), February 8-9, offered by the Partnership to Advance Throughput computing (PATh). All campus cyberinfrastructure (CI) staff are invited to attend!

The OSG User School 2019 was held at the University of Wisconsin–Madison on July 15–19. This year’s event hosted 55 participants, drawn from a pool of 86 applicants. These numbers are consistent with the past few years, taking into account annual variation.

The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) and the Wisconsin IceCube Particle Astrophysics Center (WIPAC) at the University of Wisconsin–Madison successfully completed a computational experiment as part of a multi-institution collaboration that marshalled all globally available for sale GPUs (graphics processing units) across Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and the Google Cloud Platform.

The OSG User School 2018 was held at the University of Wisconsin–Madison on July 9–13. This year’s event set a new record with 65 participants in total, up from 56 participants in 2017. And due to the large and record-setting number of applicants, 140, it was also one of the most selective offerings of the School.

DES looks to the Open Science Pool to provide a portion of their computing power. Over the last year, DES has gained roughly 4.58 million hours (522 years) of computing from OSG.

The OSG User School 2017 was held at the University of Wisconsin–Madison on July 17–21. There were 56 participants, including mostly graduate students, post-doctoral researchers, a few advanced undergraduates, several faculty, and some research staff from research institutions in the United States (and one each...

On October 16th, scientists at the LIGO and Virgo scientific collaborations announced the detection of gravitational waves from the collision of two neutron stars that occurred 130 million years ago. This collision has also been observed with light emitted across the entire electromagnetic spectrum.

On October 1, 2017, Rainer Weiss, Barry Barish, and Kip Thorne were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics “for decisive contributions to the LIGO detector and the observation of gravitational waves.” LIGO confirmed the first direct observation of gravitational waves on September 14, 2015. Both LIGO detectors, one in...

The TRAPPIST-1 system contains a total of seven planets, all around the size of Earth. Three of them — TRAPPIST-1e, f and g — dwell in their star’s so-called “habitable zone.” The habitable zone, or Goldilocks zone, is a band around every star (shown here in green) where astronomers have calculated that temperatures are just right — not too hot, not too cold — for liquid water to pool on the surface of an Earth-like world.

Machine learning insights into molecular science using the Open Science Pool Computation has extended what researchers can investigate in chemistry, biology, and material science. Studying complex systems like proteins or nanocomposites can use similar techniques for common challenges.

Understanding the universe has always fascinated mankind. The VERITAS Cherenkov telescope array unravels its secrets by detecting very-high-energy gamma rays from astrophysics sources.

Whether exploring how the brain is fooled by fake news or explaining the decline of knowledge in dementia, cognitive neuroscientists like Chris Cox are relying more on high-throughput computing resources like the Open Science Pool to understand how the brain makes sense of information.

Scott Cole, a neuroscience PhD student at University of California San Diego, wrote an article which appeared in PythonWeekly that details how to get up and running on Open Science Pool.

LIGO’s detectors search for gravitational waves from deep space. With two detectors, researchers can use differences in the wave’s arrival times to constrain the source location in the sky. LIGO’s first data run of its advanced gravitational wave detectors began in September 2015 and ran through January 12, 2016. The first gravitational waves were detected on September 14, 2015 by both detectors.

Duke University Associate Professor of Physics Shailesh Chandrasekharan and his graduate student Venkitesh Ayyar are using the OSpool to tackle notoriously difficult problems in quantum systems.