OSG News Archive
Read the OSG NSF 2010 Annual Report
2010 OSG Summer School is coming up 19-22 July
Magellan explores scientific clouds, scientifically - iSGTW 19 May
The security-accessibility tug-o-war - iSGTW 12 May
Read OSG Tutorial and presentation on Northwest Indiana Computational Grid at Notre Dame CI Days, 29-30 Apr
Read about Sebastien Goasguen's recent trip to GSSM to discuss distributed computing and client server programming on GSSM's Facebook site.
Guidance document: A Comparison of Job Submission Methods on the Open Science Grid
IX DOSAR Workshop 6-8 April brings institutions from the southern US, latin America and South Africa together. [See presentation from OSG-Council Co-Chair, Kent Blackburn]
Campus grids secret to productive grid sites - iSGTW 31 Mar
Video of the week: Monitoring with the fishes - iSGTW 31 Mar
Q&A: Grid Colombia warms up - iSGTW 24 Mar
Case study: Einstein@OSG - iSGTW 17 Mar
OSG All Hands Meeting - iSGTW 17 MarNice to meet you, authentically - iSGTW 3 Mar
OSG Consortium All Hands Meeting Mar 8-11, 2010
Grid Colombia 2010 - Bucaramanga, Colombia, 1-5 Mar
Read the draft final eResearch2020 report - The Role of e-Infrastructures in the Creation of Global Virtual Research Communities
US scientists analyze first LHC data through Open Science Grid - symmetry breaking 23 Feb, also about.com and HPC WireDoing science on the hub - iSGTW 17 Feb
Bringing LHC data to US Tier-3s - iSGTW 10 Feb
Refer to presentations from OGF 27, Grid 2009 and the Cybera/CANARIE National Summit
Apply before 31 Jan for the International Winter School in Grid Computing - 01 March to 02 April 2010
Press Release: NSF Grant Provides Funding to Support Eight "Cyberinfrastructure Day" Workshops Across the Country, Dec 21, 2009
Call for papers - CLADE2010, 22 June 2010 in Chicago
"[Amazon's] Spot Instances and the Condor scheduler will enable a 'no compute cycle left behind' policy ..." - Amazon.com Press Release Dec 14
RENCI Technical Report: Calculating All Pairwise Similarities from the RCSB Protein Data Bank: Client/Server Work Distribution on the Open Science Grid
OSG-WLCG-EGEE Design meeting - at CERN, Dec 9-11
PEGrid presentation by Alan Sill at MAGIC Team Meeting - Dec 2Fermilab has no hard feelings toward lab that bested it - Daily Herald Dec 1
Mark your calendar for the OSG Consortium All Hands Meeting Mar 8-11, 2010
Getting GPUs on the grid - iSGTW Nov 4
OSG_ESnet Identity Management Workshops - Madison, WI Nov 9-11
Grid Columbia Workshop (second part in a three phase program supporting the launch of Grid Colombia) Oct 20-26
Several members of OSG are active at OGF in Banff, participating in the
"Future of Cyberinfrastructure," "Lessons Learned," and "Point Counterpoint" discussions. See also Summit09 , the OGF schedule , and the IGTF All Hands/TAGPMA meeting - Oct 14
An unexpected bounty of Near Earth Objects - iSGTW, Oct 7
OSG's Ruth Pordes and Dan Fraser present at OU Supercomputing Symposium Oct 7
A Roy (on behalf of the OSG consortium) 2009 J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 180 012052 (6pp)
Project develops new standards for sharing between grids - iSGTW, Sept 23
New organization shakes up earthquake consortium - iSGTW, Sept 23
Grace Hopper Celebration - Sept 30 - Oct 3
Workshop: "Secure Programming and Vulnerability Assessment of Distributed Computing Middleware
- Oct 12 (at Open Grid Forum Meeting)
Newsflash - Fall conference line-up - iSGTW, Sept 16
New batch of science gateways hits the spot - iSGTW, Sept 2
Research Highlight: Grid helps to filter LIGO’s data
Technology Highlight: Authorization project helps grids interoperate
GCE09 Workshop Call for papers
August 6, 2009: OSG Site Administrators Workshop 6 & 7 August, 2009
July 3, 2009: Worldwide computing grid set to handle data from CERN's Large Hadron Collider - Cordis News
July 1, 2009: Data-taking dress rehearsal proves world's largest computing grid is ready for LHC restart
July 1, 2009: CERN Press Release: Grids Step-up to a Set of New Records: Scale Testing for the Experiment Programme ’09 (STEP’09)
June 30 & July 1, 2009: OSG Storage Forum
OSG @ TeraGrid'09
- Paul Avery gives keynote talk
- John McGee gives presentation
- Malina Kern presents a poster
- Clemson in Student Programming Contest
June 17, 2009: Research Highlight: Grid-enabled virus hunting
June 17, 2009: Registration now open for Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing - Tucson, AZ, 30 Sept to 3 Oct
June 10, 2009 - Workshop on Monitoring, Logging and Accounting in Production Grids at HPDC in Munich
Testimonials Archive
"OSG allowed us to ramp up usage to nearly complete utilization almost overnight.” -- David Swanson, Director, Research Computing Facility at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (October, 2009)
"The DZero experiment used around 200 CPU years of the OSG resources to generate simulated events for observation of single top quark production. This represents around 85 million fully reconstructed events. These simulated events are critical for calculating which events to accept as "signal" and which to reject as ‘background’.” -- Dmitri Denisov, Co Spokesperson, DZero Experiment (August, 2009)
"The OSG software stack and operation services allows the STAR collaboration to aggregate its resources into a seamless pool of computational cycles covering for all Monte Carlo event generation needs. The monitored fabric offers a superb opportunity for carrying research with excellent efficiencies achieved." -- Jérôme Lauret, RHIC/STAR Software and Computing Project Leader, Brookhaven National Laboratory (May, 2009)
"As a testament to the efficiency of OSG infrastructure, we managed to complete about 3.5 million of ~40 minute jobs in 21 days, which is roughly 270 years of CPU time, running in total on about 12,000 hosts; one third of this workforce was from OSG." -- Mark Silberstein, Technion, Israel (January, 2009)
"Clemson University and RENCI are partners in providing their
expertise to teach researchers how to make use of the OSG infrastructure
and how they can contribute themselves to OSG--a give and take activity or the good of research, education and American competitiveness."--Sebastien Goasguen, Clemson University, OSG Campus Infrastructure Coordinator (December, 2008)
"OSG is the ideal workhorse for our calculations. We've run 60,000 jobs since last January, an order of magnitude beyond what has otherwise been possible. We're very grateful for the opportunity to use OSG."-- Andrew Schultz, Research Assistant Professor. Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, SUNY at Buffalo (September, 2008)
"The fact that it only took two weeks for me to get OSG installed, fully functional, and registered is pretty encouraging. And of course, we had a nearly working OSG install on the first day." --Malina Kirn, University of Maryland (CMS OSG Tier-3 site)
"[The condor_preen tool] is an excellent example of how middleware should work. The results are the most informative email I've gotten from a piece of computing infrastructure. Something well worth emulating by others." -- Frank Wüerthwein, CMS Computing Commissioning Co-Lead (July, 2008)
"U.S. ATLAS is still in the midst of a large simulation exercise, computing system commissioning and now the full dress rehearsal. OSG is delivering the CPU cycles we need, on a robust and stable fabric." -- Jim Shank, Boston University (June, 2008)
"OSG has become a dependable facility for CMS on which the success of LHC physics computing can fully rely." -- Lothar Bauerdick, Fermilab (June, 2008)
"I have experienced very good response during the initial steps of preparing NCSA to provide resources to the OSG community. I look forward to taking an active role in OSG, providing NCSA HEC resources and facilitating access to other TeraGrid sources." (April, 2008)
-- Doru Marcusiu, Co-PI of NCSA TeraGrid Resource Provider
"OSG staff was extremely helpful in making CHARMM run on the OSG. Now CHARMM runs beautifully." -- Ana Damjanovich, Johns-Hopkins University (February, 2008)
2008 OSG News Archive
Supported by the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science