Sustaining and Extending the Open Science Grid: Science Innovation on a PetaScale Nationwide Facility (DE-FC02-06ER41436) SciDAC-2 Closeout Report
Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI (United States), Miron Livny, High Energy Physics (HEP) (SC-25) USDOE Office of Science (SC), Nuclear Physics (NP) (SC-26) USDOE Office of Science (SC), J. T. Shank, Michael Ernst, Kent Blackburn, Sebastien Goasguen, P. M. Tuts, Lawrence Gibbons, Ruth Pordes, Piotr Sliz, Ewa Deelman, William Barnett, Doug Olson, John McGee, Robert Cowles, Frank Wuerthwein, Gardner Robert, P. Avery · 2015
Under this SciDAC-2 grant the project’s goal w a s t o stimulate new discoveries by providing scientists with effective and dependable access to an unprecedented national distributed computational facility: the Open Science Grid (OSG). We proposed to achieve this through the work of the Open Science Grid Consortium: a unique hands-on multi-disciplinary collaboration of scientists, software developers and providers of computing resources. Together the stakeholders in this consortium sustain and use a shared distributed computing environment that transforms simulation and experimental science in the US. The OSG consortium is an open collaboration that actively engages new research communities. We operate an open facility that brings together a broad spectrum of compute, storage, and networking resources and interfaces to other cyberinfrastructures, including the US XSEDE (previously TeraGrid), the European Grids for ESciencE (EGEE), as well as campus and regional grids. We leverage middleware provided by computer science groups, facility IT support organizations, and computing programs of application communities for the benefit of consortium members and the US national CI.