OSG Newsletter Archive

January 2012

• New Staff in OSG
• Feedback Wanted on Upcoming OSG Software Plans
• OSG Documentation Update
• From the Executive Director
• ATLAS and CMS Thumbnails
• Featured Site: Bellarmine ATLAS-T3
• SBGrid's successful start to 2012
• Glidein WMS Front-End Training a Success
• OSG Certificate Authority Status
• ATLAS Update
• CMS Update

November & December 2011

• From the Executive Director - December
• BMRB's CS-Rosetta server on the OSG
• OSG System Administrator Visitor Program
• Introducing the WLCG Technology Evolution Groups
• Pilot Project for Transition of Functionality of the DOE Grids CA to OSG
• ATLAS and CMS Thumbnails
• Major New Software Release
• Featured Site: Midwest Tier2 Center
• Electron Ion Collider Simulations on OSG
• ENgagement VOMS Server Upgraded
• From the Executive Director - November

October 2011

• Running OpenSees Production for NEES on OSG
• CMS Production
• From the Executive Director
• ATLAS and CMS Thumbnail
• Featured Site: T3 US UMD, University of Maryland Tier 3 HEP CMS Computing Center
• EGI Technical Forum
• Save the Date

September 2011

• The Great Migration: From Pacman to RPMs
• GlueX Research
• ATLAS Update
• From the Executive Director
• ATLAs and CMS Thumbnails
• Featured Site: ATLAS Great Lakes Tier-2
• Using xrootd for "Any Data, Anytime, Anywhere"
• OSG: There's an (Android) app for that
• CMS Production

August 2011

• 2011 OSG Summer School a success
• CMS Production
• First OSG Newsletter Survey results are in!
• OSG becomes an EXSEDE service provider
• CMS & ATLAS Thumbnails
• Featured Site: Clemson IT
• OSG Summer Workshop
• From the Executive Director

June 2011

• Reader Survey - Win Amazon gift card
• Introducing ALICE
• From the Executive Director
• CMS & ATLAs Thumbnails
• CMS Production Report
• ATLAS Report
• ExTENCI Annual Report

April 2011

• Engage Status Report
• Panda Workload Management System
• CMS Production Report
• CMS & ATLAS Thumbnails
• RedHat awards "Cloud Leadership Award" award to the University of Wisconsin Center for High Throughput Computing
• Grid Columbia Launching
• From the Executive Director

March 2011

• CMS Production Report
• ATLAS Production
• Talk with the Experts
• 2011 OSG Summer School
• Operations 10K Ticket Milestone
• OpenSees on OSG
• Open Science Grid - 2011 All Hands Meeting

January-February 2011

• Open Science Grid - 2011 All Hands
• Talk with the Experts
• New Release of Geant4 Validated on Grids
• Virtual Organization Forum
• CMS Production Report
• ATLAS Report
• From the Executive Director

November-December 2010 

• Structural Biology Grid's Wide Search Molecular
• HCC Use Case on OSG
• OSG Participation in the CLCAR 2010
• Executive Director's Report
• South American Grid School
• Production Report for CMS
• VO Forum Update

September/October 2010  

• Running computations of the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope on OSG
• News from the VO Forum
• Production Report on CMS
• OSG Storage Forum
• Production Report on ATLAS
• GlideinWMS Factory Operations Support
• From the Executive Director
• CMS and ATLAS Thumbnails

July 2010

• OSG Annual Report to the National Science Foundation
• Novel approaches to finding new proteins with Open Science Grid
• OGF Standards
• From the Executive Director
• OSG Summer School 2010
• CMS Production Report
• *Special Announcement*: OSG All Hands Meeting 2011
• WLCG Data and Storage Management Jamboree

May 2010

• Usability--a Security Team Focus
• OSG Summer School
• CI Days at Notre Dame
• Production Report from CMS
• Notes From the Executive Director
• April ATLAS & CMS Thumbnails

April 2010

• Production Report from CMS
  
• New Arrivals to the OSG Project
•  OSG Participates at Condor Week
  
• Updated Graphs of OSG Usage by Science
• From the Executive Directo
• March ATLAS & CMS Thumbnails
  

March 2010

• Production Report from CMS
• OSG Software Evolution Proposals
• OSG All Hands - iSGTW Feature Summary
• OSG Constortium Meeting Welcome from Fermilab
• OSG Software Ecosystem Workshop
• From the Executive Director

February 2010

• OSG takes lead in Einstein@Home
• Production Report from CMS
• Earthquake Workflow
• Campus Grid Working Meeting
• The OSG Campfire Turns One
• Teaching a Grid Course
• From the Executive Director

January 2010

• ATLAS Analysing Real Data After LHC Start-up
  
• Production Report from CMS
• Native Packaging VDT Work
• Early LHC Measurements from the Large Hadron Collider Depend on the Distriburted Computing Contributions of the Open Science Grid
• iSGTW Survey: January 2010
• From the Executive Director
• December ATLAS & CMS Thumbnails
• OSG Documents Modified in the Last 20 Days

December 2009

• Special LHC Update from the Executive Director
• EINSTEIN at Home
• Adventures at IceCube
• Benefits of grid software feed into reservoir modeling
• Production Report of CMS
• OSG Security News: A Season of Sharing, sharing the security news that is :)
• From the Executive Director
• OSG Documents Modified in the Last 20 Days

November 2009

• LHC Startup: Beams Circulated!
• Update on Production Runs of ROSETTA on OSG from Kuhlman Lab
• GHC Presentation
• OSG Staff Change
• Grid Colombia Workshop
• From the Executive Director
• OSG Documents Updated in the Last 30 Days

October 2009 

• Firefly
• Bringing HighThroughput capabilities to ensembles of Parallel Applications
• OSG at the University of Johannesburg (UJ)
• Grid Colombia Workshop
• MyOSG adopted by EGEE
• Executive Director's Report
• OSG Enterprise Document Repository
• Public Documents Changed and/or Added in the last 30 days from the OSG Document Repository

September 2009

• Summer Student Profile - Caitlin Cosgrove, SBGrid
• Summer Student Profile - Phil Scherer, OSG Security
• Open Science Grid Council Face to Face Semi-Annual Meeting August 11, 2009
• Funding received for OSG/TeraGrid provisioning system
• From the Executive Director
• Public Documents Changed and/or Added in the last 30 days from the OSG Document Repository

August 2009

• OSG Science Reports
• Superlink Online
• OSG Site Administrators Workshop
• OSG Sponsored Secure Programming Workshop
• OSG Enterprise Document Repository
• Meet the new iSGTW U.S. Editor
• OSG Staff Retreat

July 2009

• From the Executive Director 
  
• Step '09
• OSG Storage Forum
• Track the OSG Sponsored Students at iSGGC 09'

June 2009

• From the Executive Director
  
• Successful Transition of Nanohub - OSG Taskforce
• VDT 2.0.0
• OSG Site Coordination News

March 2009

• Introducing David Ritchie as the Area Coordinator for Communications
• Open Science Grid All-Hands Meeting Report
• OSG Collaborating with South Africa
• reCAPTCHA Useful in Spam Prevention
  

February 2009

• All Hand Reminder
• SBGrid Using the OSG
• Introducing Xrootd
  

January 2009  

• From the Executive Director
• OSG Security News
• OSG and ALICE working to enable AliEn VO-Box paradigm on OSG
• Setting Realistic Expectations for Network Usage
• Internet2/OSG Partnership
• OSG Virtual Cluster Available
• OSG gets Big Bang