Project: Open Science Grid Operations
Primary UITS contact: Rob Quick
Last update: April 7, 2009
Description: The Open Science Grid Consortium is a nationwide facility and infrastructure enabling large-scale high-throughput computing for science. Based at Indiana University, the Grid Operations Center (GOC) provides a single point of operational support for the Open Science Grid (OSG). The GOC performs real-time grid monitoring and problem tracking; provides support to users, developers, and system administrators; maintains grid services; provides security incident response; and maintains information repositories. The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will begin data acquisition in late 2009, allowing the opportunity for the GOC to support a high-profile physics community during its ramp-up and while data is flowing.
Outcome and benefits: The OSG provides a national research computing infrastructure. As the OSG Operations Center, IU places itself in the center of this expanding national project. It also allows research into the support structures necessary for large grid computing collaborations.
Project sponsor: Craig Stewart, Associate Dean for Research Technologies
Project team:
- Elizabeth Chism
- Arvind Gopu
- Kyle Gross
- Soichi Hayashi
- Tom Lee
- Fred Luehring
- Scott McCaulay
- Jenny Olmes-Stevens
- Chris Pipes
- Rob Quick
Partner sites:
- Indiana University
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)
- Fermi National Accelerator Lab
- University of Wisconsin
- University of Chicago
- Brookhaven National Lab
Additional information
- PI: Scott McCaulay
- Co-PIs: Fred Luehring and Craig Stewart
- Funding agency and grant number: University of Wisconsin 647F231 (NSF)
- Grant dates: September 1, 2008 to August 31, 2009 (year 3); renewable for years 4-5
- Funding to UITS: $447,000 for year 3, $509,000 for years 4 and 5
- Total funding to IU related to this project: $2,359,000 over five years
