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CHTC Hosted 2nd Annual Researcher Forum February 27, 2026

The second annual CHTC Researcher Forum took place on February 17th 2026, connecting CHTC users and research computing community members across UW-Madison campus. The event started off with an introductory presentation from PI Brian Bockleman, followed by Center for Throughput Computing “CHTC” updates from the Research Facilitation team. UW-Madison alumni Dr. Ariana Neigreiro gave the keynote address on her work using HTCondor, DAGman workflows, and Pelican to develop tools for dairy cattle management.

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Bioinformatics Café: Building Community and Bridging Computing and Biology February 27, 2026

The Bioinformatics Café is a monthly, hands-on meetup hosted by the Center for High Throughput Computing (CHTC) at UW-Madison, which provides a space for life-science researchers to learn, co-work, and troubleshoot with support from expert facilitators. The Café offers a space to build skills, refine workflows, and connect with fellow researchers solving similar problems in bioinformatics and high-throughput computing.

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2025 HTCondor European Workshop Showcases Advances in High Throughput Computing December 03, 2025

Showcasing both technical advances and real-world applications of HTCondor, the 2025 HTCondor European Workshop was held at the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences (FZU) in Prague from September 16-19.

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HTCondor Withstands CERN’s Massive Stress Test December 03, 2025

HTCondor withstands a massive stress test to prepare the Large Hadron Collider for more data

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HTCondor Celebrates 40 Years Powered by Community July 25, 2025

The high-throughput computing community — including scientists, researchers, developers, administrators and facilitators — gathered at UW–Madison on June 3 to celebrate 40 years of “The Condor Project,” now known as HTCondor.

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HTC Strikes Again June 09, 2025

🔭 How AI and Supercomputers Are Revealing the Secrets of Black Holes

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OSPool Is a Game Changer: HTC25 Keynote Presentor Erik Wright June 02, 2025

Dr. Erik Wright, in his presentation “Biological Diversity at an Unfathomable Scale” at HTC25, explored how high-throughput computing and the OSPool is being used to unlock the functions of novel genes.

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Reaching Record Numbers of Contributing Institutions to the OSPool February 27, 2025

In the past year, 75 institutions contributed to the OSPool, setting a new record for the number of contributors.

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PATh Becomes NAIRR Pilot Service Provider for AI Workloads February 27, 2025

As of February 20th, the Partnership to Advance Throughput Computing (PATh) project is now a listed resource provider for the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) Pilot Project. The PATh project provides allocatable services to support the entire life cycle of AI workloads–training data generation, training data cleaning, model training, and inference (prediction) using AI models.

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HTC News Shorts: February 2025 February 26, 2025

This feature centers on two news updates from the Center For High Throughput Computing: The CC* (Campus Cyberinfrastructure) PI Workshop and the impacts of HTC on study of Neuroscience and Addiction.

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HTC News Shorts: January 2025 January 01, 2025

This feature centers on news updates from the Center For High Throughput Computing; ranging from the growing HTC international community to fostering new relationships with other American institutions to centering on the ethics of throughput computing use and distribution.

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Decoding the Sun’s Secrets With the Help of Pelican December 20, 2024

Astronomers and computer scientists at the University of Hawaiʻi, Moana are unlocking the Sun’s magnetic mysteries with the help of cutting-edge data caching and transfer applications provided by the Pelican Project and the Open Science Data Federation (OSDF).

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Fostering Community Amongst Developers and Researchers: A Reflection on the 2024 European Autumn HTCondor Workshop December 20, 2024

The 2024 European Autumn HTCondor Workshop set out to grow a community with HTCondor users and developers and to advance scientific research endeavors.

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Student Fellows Advance Research Computing Infrastructure at CHTC December 09, 2024

Story on the inaugural 2024 CHTC Fellows Program was designed to immerse undergraduate and graduate students in the world of high throughput computing.

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A Spotlight on Cole Bollig: Finding CHTC, Community, and Learning HTCondor November 26, 2024

“As a software developer, I could be working at a large tech firm or at Facebook or Google to create a new obscure feature that a few people interact with and feed the pockets of millionaires. Instead, I’m helping the scientific community. It feels awesome, important, to be a part of something like that” -Cole Bollig

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High Throughput Community Builds Stronger Ties at HTC24 Week July 17, 2024

Throughput Computing Week 2024 Brings Together the HTC Community

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CHTC Launches First Fellow Program June 26, 2024

CHTC kicks off its 2024 summer fellowship program.

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Advancing computational throughput of NSF funded projects with the PATh Facility May 21, 2024

Since 2022, the Partnership to Advance Throughput Computing (PATh) Facility has provided dedicated high throughput computing (HTC) capacity to researchers nationwide. Following a year of expansion, here’s a look into the researchers’ work and how it has been enabled by the PATh Facility.

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Tribal College and CHTC pursue opportunities to expand computing education and infrastructure January 17, 2024

Salish Kootenai College and CHTC take steps toward bringing underrepresented communities to cyberinfrastructure.

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The American Museum of Natural History Ramps Up Education on Research Computing December 15, 2023

With a multi-day workshop, the museum strives to expand the scale of its educational and training services by bringing additional computing capacity resources to New York-area researchers and tapping into the power of high throughput computing (HTC).

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The Pelican Project: Building a universal plug for scientific data-sharing November 16, 2023

Advancing Open Science: The Pelican Project’s Pursuit of Universal Data Accessibility

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CHTC Launches First Introductory Workshop on HTC and HPC November 10, 2023

On November 8, CHTC hosted a hands-on workshop for researchers new to high throughput computing (HTC) or high performance computing (HPC).

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HTCondor European Workshop returns for ninth year in Orsay, France November 01, 2023

The ninth 2023 HTCondor European Workshop occurred in Orsay, France, September 19-22

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Construction Commences on CHTC's Future Home in New CDIS Building April 27, 2023

On April 25th, UW-Madison broke ground on the new School of Computer, Data & Information Sciences and CHTC’s new home.

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Get To Know Student Communications Specialist Hannah Cheren April 24, 2023

During her two year tenure with the Morgridge Institute for Research - Research Computing lab, Hannah Cheren made significant science writing contributions and along the way changed the direction of her life.

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The CHTC Philosophy of High Throughput Computing – A Talk by Greg Thain April 24, 2023

HTCondor Core Developer Greg Thain spoke to UW faculty and researchers about research computing and the missions and goals of the Center for High Throughput Computing (CHTC).

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Get To Know Todd Tannenbaum January 23, 2023

Staff profile of the HTCSS Software Lead, Todd Tannenbaum.

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CHTC Leads High Throughput Computing Demonstrations January 20, 2023

Students and researchers acquire high-throughput computing knowhow from CHTC led demonstrations.

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OSPool's Growing Number of Cores Reaching New Levels December 19, 2022

Campuses contributing to the capacity of the OSPool led to record breaking number of cores this December, 2022. On December 9th, the OSPool, which provides computing resources to researchers across the country, crossed the 70,000 cores line –– for the very first time.

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OSG User School 2022 Researchers Present Inspirational Lightning Talks December 19, 2022

The OSG User School student lightning talks showcased their research, inspiring all the event participants.

Research Computing Facilitators Christina Koch (left) and Rachel Lombardi (right).

CHTC Facilitation Innovations for Research Computing December 14, 2022

After adding Research Computing Facilitators in 2013-2014, CHTC has expanded its reach to support researchers in all disciplines interested in using large-scale computing to support their research through the shared computing capacity offered by the CHTC.

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High-throughput computing: Fostering data science without limits December 06, 2022

The Center for High-Throughput Computing (CHTC), a joint partnership of UW-Madison School of Computer, Data & Information Sciences and the Morgridge Institute, sees this onslaught of data and says: Bring it on.

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UW–Madison's Icecube Neutrino Observatory Wins HPCwire Award November 16, 2022

The UW-Madison Center for High Throughput Computing’s (CHTC) collaboration with the San Diego Supercomputer Center on the IceCube Neutrino Observatory received recognition with the HPCwire 2022 Readers’ Choice Award for Best Use of High Performance Computing (HPC) in the Cloud (Use Case).

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Over 240,000 CHTC Jobs Hit Record Daily Capacity Consumption November 09, 2022

The Center for High Throughput (CHTC) users continue to be hard at work smashing records with high throughput computational workloads. On October 20th, more than 240,000 jobs completed that day, reporting a total consumption of more than 710,000 core hours. This is equivalent to the capacity of 30,000 cores running non-stop for 24 hours.

The colors on the chart correspond to the total number of core hours – nearly 884,000 – utilized by researchers at participating universities on PATh Facility hardware located at SDSC.

PATh Extends Access to Diverse Set of High Throughput Computing Research Programs November 03, 2022

UCSD announces the new PATh Facility and discusses its impact on science.

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Solving for the future: Investment, new coalition levels up research computing infrastructure at UW–Madison September 27, 2022

Summary of Corissa Runde’s article from the UW-Madison Department of Information Technology website.

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NIAID/ACE students attend this year’s OSG User School 2022 September 09, 2022

This past July, the OSG User School 2022 welcomed students from across the globe to learn how to use high-throughput computing (HTC) in their scientific research. This year five students from Makerere University in Uganda and the University Of Sciences, Techniques, and Technologies of Bamako in Mali, Africa, participated as a part of The U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and the African Centers for Excellence in Bioinformatics and Data-Intensive Science (ACE) partnership program.

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OSG User School Concludes July 29, 2022

After a week of participating in the OSG User School 60+ students are being released to use impact research across the globe. In this one week event, students learn to run large-scale computing workloads at their campus or using the national-scale OSPool provided by the OSG Consortium.

Retirements and New Beginnings: The Transition to Tokens July 21, 2022

May 1, 2022 officially marked the retirement of OSG 3.5, GridFTP, and GSI dependencies. OSG 3.6, up and running since February of 2021, is prepared for usage and took its place, relying on WebDAV and bearer tokens.

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OSPool Hits Record Number of Jobs June 02, 2022

The OSPool processed over 2.6 million jobs during the week of April 14th - 17th this year and ran over half a million jobs on two separate days that week.

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Introducing the PATh Facility: A Unique Distributed High Throughput Computing Service June 01, 2022

Researchers can now request credits on the PATh Facility, the PATh project’s new service intended for distributed high throughput computing workflows supporting NSF science.

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HTCondor Week 2022 Concludes May 27, 2022

Thank you to all in-person and virtual participants in HTCondor Week 2022. Over the course of the event we had over 40 talks spanning tutorials, applications and science domains using HTCSS. We hope to see you next year!

Connor Natzke awarded David Swanson Memorial Award April 11, 2022

Connor Natzke was awarded the 2022 David Swanson Memorial Award at the March OSG All-Hands Meeting. The memorial was established to honor our late colleage David Swanson who contributed to campus research across the country.

Celebrating a dynamic OSG All-Hands Meeting 2022 April 11, 2022

In March, 251 OSG users, resource providers, and staff convened virtually for the OSG All-Hands Meeting 2022. This article provides a brief summary of the talks and discussions that took place, and includes links to the video recordings of all talks.

Campus Cyberinfrastructure (CC*) Awardees Contribute Over 349 Million Core Hours in Last 12 Months August 12, 2021

Campus Cyberinfrastructure Award Recipients Power the OSG and contributed over 349 million core hours to researchers using distributed high throughput computing (dHTC).

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OSPool Usage Hits Daily Record June 10, 2021

Researchers utilizing the OSPool are racking up record-breaking numbers. On June 8, the OSPool, which provides computing resources to researchers across the country, went over 1.1 million core hours –– a daily record number. To put this in perspective, one million core hours is equivalent to using 42 thousand cores in just one day. That is close to half the size of some large supercomputing centers. In short, an increasing number of researchers are utilizing the OSG to carry out an incredible amount of computing.

Register Now for the February 8-9 Campus Workshop December 18, 2020

Save the date and register now for another Campus Workshop on distributed high-throughput computing (dHTC) February 8-9 offered by the Parternship to Advance Throughput Computing (PATh).

Submit Locally, Run Globally December 07, 2020

The PATh project offers technologies and services that enable researchers to harness through a single interface, and from the comfort of their “home directory”, computing capacity offered by a global and diverse collection of resources.

High Throughput Computing Powers Covid Genetic Sequencing November 18, 2020

MADISON - David O’Connor, professor at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health, reports that recent advances in genetic sequencing of viruses makes it possible to track the spread of SARS-CoV-2 throughout communities in Wisconsin.

National Science Foundation establishes a partnership to advance throughput computing October 10, 2020

MADISON — Recognizing the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s leadership role in research computing, the National Science Foundation announced this month that the Madison campus will be home to a five-year, $22.5 million initiative to advance high-throughput computing.

High Throughput Computing in Support of Science

The high throughput computing capabilities provided by HTCondor and the OSG Consortium’s Fabric of Services have a rich history of advancing all domains of research. From detecting gravitational waves caused by ancient black hole collisions, to hunting viral variants of COVID-19 –– browse the collection of articles below to discover just what’s possible with high throughput computing.

This project is supported by National Science Foundation under Cooperative Agreement OAC-2030508. Any opinions, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.