About the OSG

• OSG's mission is to help satisfy the ever-growing computing and data management requirements of scientific researchers, especially collaborative science requiring high throughput computing.
  
  
• OSG brings together computing and storage resources from campuses and research communities into a common, shared grid infrastructure over research networks via a common set of middleware.
  
  
• OSG offers participating research communities low-threshold access to more resources than they could afford individually,via a combination of dedicated, scheduled and opportunistic alternatives.
  
  
• OSG is a consortium of software, service and resource providers and researchers, from universities, national laboratories and computing centers across the U.S., who together build and operate the OSG project. The project is funded by the NSF and DOE, and provides staff for managing various aspects of the OSG.
  
  
• OSG Consortium members' independently owned and managed resources make up the distributed facility, agreements between them provide the glue for it, their requirements drive its evolution, and they contribute their effort to make it happen.
  
  
• OSG's Virtual Data Toolkit provides packaged, tested and supported collections of software for installation on participating compute and storage nodes and a client package for end-user researchers. Individual research communities, the 'virtual organizations', add services according to their scientists' needs.
  
  
• OSG works with an expanding set of research communities to help them evaluate their cyberinfrastructure needs and plan their solutions both locally across the campus and as part of national or international efforts. OSG works jointly with partners to create worldwide interoperable systems for cutting edge-research, for example the World Wide LHC Computing Grid for the upcoming experiments at CERN.
  
  
• OSG provides training through hands-on workshops and focused engagement with the community, helping new users to run applications on the infrastructure and resource owners to make their compute and storage resources accessible to the grid.

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