Spotlight Articles

Map of institutions contributing to the Open Science Pool (OSPool).

“Becoming part of something bigger” motivates campus contributions to the OSPool

April 19, 2024
A spotlight on two newer contributors to the OSPool and the onboarding process.
Radio image of space.

Through the use of high throughput computing, NRAO delivers one of the deepest radio images of space

April 4, 2024
The National Radio Astronomy Observatory’s collaboration with the NSF-funded PATh and Pelican projects leads to successfully imaged deep space.
Image of Hubble Ultra-deep Field at S-Band

Astronomers and Engineers Use a Grid of Computers at a National Scale to Study the Universe 300 Times Faster

March 5, 2024
Data Processing for Very Large Array Makes Deepest Radio Image of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field
Photo of California wildfires, 2021

Ecologists utilizing HTC to examine the effects of megafires on wildlife

February 26, 2024
Studying the impact of two high-fire years in California on over 600 species, ecologists enlist help from CHTC.
1937 aerial photo of central UW Madison campus

Preserving historic Wisconsin aerial photos with a little help from CHTC

February 6, 2024
Associate State Cartographer Jim Lacy works with CHTC to digitize and preserve historical aerial photography for the public.
The OSG School 2023 attendees

OSG School mission: Don’t let computing be a barrier to research

December 20, 2023
The OSG Consortium hosted its annual OSG School in August 2023, assisting participants from a wide range of campuses and areas of research through HTC learning.
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How the GLUE Lab is bringing the potential of HTC to track the movement of cattle and land use change

December 15, 2023
Researching land use change in the cattle sector is just one of several large projects where the GLUE Lab is working to apply HTC.
Jonathon Blank, a co-author of the paper

Using HTC expanded scale of research using noninvasive measurements of tendons and ligaments

November 27, 2023
With this technique and the computing power of high throughput computing (HTC) combined, researchers can obtain thousands of simulations to study the pathology of tendons and ligaments.
Group photo of members of the Hanna Lab

Training a dog and training a robot aren’t so different

November 17, 2023
In the Hanna Lab, researchers use high throughput computing as a critical tool for training robots with reinforcement learning.
Members of the Spalding Research Lab

Plant physiologists used high throughput computing to remedy research “bottleneck”

November 13, 2023
The Spalding Lab uses high throughput computing to study plant physiology.
González (left) and Tripathee (right) pictured with their awards. Photo provided by Jimena González.

OSG David Swanson Awardees Honored at HTC23

October 30, 2023
Jimena González and Aashish Tripathee named 2023’s David Swanson awardees
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Great Plains Regional CyberTeam Expanding Capacity for Computing from Great Plains Campuses

October 24, 2023
Great Plains Augmented Gateway to the OSG (GP-ARRGO) receives National Science Foundation (NSF) CC* award
Microscope beside computer by Tima Miroshnichenko from Pexels.

OSPool As a Tool for Advancing Research in Computational Chemistry

April 25, 2023
Assistant Professor Eric Jonas uses OSG resources to understand the structure of molecules based on their measurements and derived properties.
Image obtained from the official ASP2022 page on the African School of Physics website.

Distributed Computing at the African School of Physics 2022 Workshop

April 24, 2023
Over 50 students chose to participate in a distributed computing workshop from the 7th biennial African School of Physics (ASP) 2022 at Nelson Mandela University in Gqeberha, South Africa.
Image of two black holes from Cody Messick’s presentation slides.

LIGO's Search for Gravitational Waves Signals Using HTCondor

July 21, 2022
Cody Messick, a Postdoc at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) working for the LIGO lab, describes LIGO’s use of HTCondor to search for new gravitational wave sources.
Computer rendering of DNA. Image credit: Sangharsh Lohakare (@sangharsh_l) on Unsplash.

The role of HTC in advancing population genetics research

June 1, 2022
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.
Simulated image of Sagittarius A* black hole. Image library credit: EHT Theory Working Group, CK Chan.

High-throughput computing as an enabler of black hole science

May 12, 2022
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.
An aerial view of Jefferson Lab. Photo courtesy of Jefferson Lab.

Expanding, uniting, and enhancing CLAS12 computing with OSG’s fabric of services

May 2, 2022
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.
Map of Africa; Mali and Uganda are highlighted where their respective flags point. Image credit: © 2010 Roland Urbanek. Flags are edited in and overlayed on the image.

NIAID/ACE - OSG collaboration leads to a successful virtual training session

May 2, 2022
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).
The GRIFFIN Spectrometer. (Image credit: Kirk Chantraine, TRIUMF Photowalk 2018).

Learning and adapting with OSG: Investigating the strong nuclear force

April 25, 2022
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.
Ariadna looking over bats in a case

80,000 jobs, 40 billion base pairs, and 20 bats –– all in 4 weeks

October 26, 2021
An evolutionary biologist at the AMNH used HTC services provided by the OSG to unlock a genomic basis for convergent evolution in bats.
Proton-proton collision

Antimatter: Using HTC to study very rare processes

August 19, 2021
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.
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Using HTC for a simulation study on cross-validation for model evaluation in psychological science

August 19, 2021
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.
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Transforming research with high throughput computing

August 19, 2021
During the OSG Virtual School Showcase, three different researchers shared how high throughput computing has made lasting impacts on their work.
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Scaling virtual screening to ultra-large virtual chemical libraries

August 19, 2021
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.
Nebraska standing at graduation

OSG fuels a student-developed computing platform to advance RNA nanomachines

August 10, 2021
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.

How to Transfer 460 Terabytes? A File Transfer Case Study

January 15, 2021
When Greg Daues at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) needed to transfer 460 Terabytes of NCSA files from the National Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics (IN2P3) in Lyon, France to Urbana, Illinois, for a project they were working with FNAL, CC-IN2P3 and the Rubin Data Production team, he turned to the HTCondor High Throughput system, not to run computationally intensive jobs, as many do, but to manage the hundreds of thousands of I/O bound transfers.
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SDSC and IceCube Center Conduct GPU Cloudburst Experiment

November 22, 2019
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.
Dark Matter Map Graph

Des Expanding Universe

March 1, 2018
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.
Trappist Solar System

Astronomy archives are creating new science every day

August 29, 2017
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.
Example of a protein model that Isayev and his group study. Courtesy image.

Machine learning insights into molecular science using the Open Science Pool

June 29, 2017
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.
The four telescopes at their permanent location at the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory (FLWO) observatory one hour south of Tucson, AZ.

VERITAS and OSG explore extreme window into the universe

June 2, 2017
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.

For neuroscientist Chris Cox, the OSG helps process mountains of data

February 20, 2017
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.

Free Supercomputing for Research - Scott Cole introduces you to OSG

February 10, 2017
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.
Image Courtesy Caltech/MIT/LIGO Laboratory

OSG helps LIGO scientists confirm Einstein's unproven theory

February 11, 2016
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.
Illustration of a fermion bag configuration.

Tackling Strongly Correlated Quantum Systems on OSPool

April 10, 2015
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.

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