Open Science Grid
The Open Science Grid Consortium is an organization that administers a worldwide grid of technological resources called the Open Science Grid, which facilitates distributed computing for scientific research. Founded in 2004, the consortium is composed of service and resource providers, researchers from universities and national laboratories, as well as computing centers across the United States. Members independently own and manage the resources which make up the distributed facility, and consortium agreements provide the framework for technological and organizational integration.
The OSG is used by scientists and researchers for data analysis tasks which are too computationally-intensive for a single data center or supercomputer. While most of the grid's resources are used for particle physics, research teams from disciplines like biology, chemistry, astronomy, and Geographic information systems are currently using the grid to analyze data.
Open Science Grid (OSG) collaborates with SCEC on HPC computational research.
OSG Web Site
OGS All Hands Meeting 2011
SCEC Presentation at OSG AHM
