Outreach and Education

The OSG's outreach effort is many-faceted:

• An Engagement activity assists research communities unfamiliar with grid computing to modify their applications such that they can be run on OSG resources.
  
  
• A Campus Grids activity seeks to assist universities and other teaching or research campuses to plan a shared local infrastructure to meet their researchers' and departments' needs.
  
  
• An Education activity organizes and runs grid schools nationally and internationally and provides online course materials.
  
  
• Our OSG software stack is available for download and use without restrictions by researchers and projects outside of OSG.
  
  
• An Interoperability activity has worked with several peer grids to deploy common services to allow interoperation between the OSG and the other grids.
  
  
• The OSG provides a staff-supported VO named "OSG" to which individual researchers may apply as they evaluate and/or learn to use the OSG. You can file a trouble ticket for this or email goc at opensciencegrid.org for help.
  
  
• The OSG collaborates on projects with partners:
  
  • Campus Infrastructure Days between the OSG, TeraGrid , Internet2 and EDUCAUSE, IRNC and NLR.
  
  • Grid Interoperability Now (GIN), especially peer-to-peer application interoperation with Pacific Rim Applications and Grid Middleware Assembly (PRAGMA).
  
  • Researchers from the University of Buenos Aires are reusing some of the material from the OSG Grid School for their local training activities.
  
  
• The OSG contributes to and partially supports the International Science Grid this Week online publication.
  
  
• The OSG participates in national and international conferences each year, e.g., SuperComputing.