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Francis Halzen Awarded 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics
Congratulations to Francis Halzen, awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics for contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos. IceCube has collaborated with CHTC for over a decade.
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Mentoring Propels Success of CHTC Fellows
Mentorship propels success of CHTC Summer Fellows Program
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AI Discussions Major Theme of Upcoming HTCondor European Workshop
HTCondor European Workshop 2026 to feature discussions on AI
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OSG School Students Build HTC Skills to Advance Their Research
55 researchers from 30 institutions across the US gathered for the 17th annual OSG School in Madison, WI.
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NSF announces investment to shape the nation’s future data backbone
Morgridge and UW–Madison team up to provide data services for the AI era
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NSF announces $83M investment in integrated data systems and services to advance AI-driven science and strengthen U.S. research infrastructure
The U.S. National Science Foundation today announced $83 million in awards through the Integrated Data Systems and Services (IDSS) program. The awards will expand access to data infrastructure resources that researchers can use alongside computing and artificial intelligence resources to accelerate scientific discovery and innovation.
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A Day of Learning and Collaboration at CHTC for Summer Undergraduate Researchers
For a second year, CHTC hosted undergraduate students from across the nation participating in the UW-Eau Claire Blugold Center for High Performance Computing Summer Research Experience for undergrads for a day of learning, networking, and sharing.
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Three Scientists from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Astronomy Community Present at HTC Week 2026
Last June, the first images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory were revealed, processed using HTCondor. This June, three members of the Rubin astronomy community presented at Throughput Computing Week 2026, sharing how HTCondor powers their massive data workflows.
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Mentorship: Part of the Fabric of CHTC
Mentorship and learning go hand in hand at the Center for High Throughput Computing, a culture director Miron Livny has built over the years. Recently recognized by UW–Madison with a Hilldale Award for his devotion to mentorship, research, and service, Livny calls it “really an award to the CHTC.”
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Found in translation at HTC26: Throughput computing addresses new needs in AI, astrophysics
HTC26, the fourth annual Throughput Computing Week, brought an international research community to the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus on June 9-12 to assess challenges across science that demand a unique approach to computation.
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Breaking the GPU Bottleneck: How Distributed Computing is Expanding AI Training
Scaling machine learning through the power of the Partnership to Advance Throughput Computing (PATh) and the NAIRR Pilot
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OSPool Boasts 48% Growth in Users
From 2024 to 2026, the OSPool saw a 48% increase in users, rising to 730 users in 2026 (last 12 months). The OSPool, a shared computing capacity available to researchers at U.S. academic institutions, has seen significant growth in numbers over the last two years.
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A Conversation with CHTC Web Developer, Cannon Lock
A conversation with CHTC Web Developer, Cannon Lock.
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CHTC Hosted 2nd Annual Researcher Forum
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
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
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
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
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
🔭 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
Throughput Computing Week 2024 Brings Together the HTC Community
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CHTC Launches First Fellow Program
CHTC kicks off its 2024 summer fellowship program.
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Advancing computational throughput of NSF funded projects with the PATh Facility
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Staff profile of the HTCSS Software Lead, Todd Tannenbaum.
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CHTC Leads High Throughput Computing Demonstrations
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
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
The OSG User School student lightning talks showcased their research, inspiring all the event participants.
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CHTC Facilitation Innovations for Research Computing
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
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
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
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.
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PATh Extends Access to Diverse Set of High Throughput Computing Research Programs
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
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
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
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.
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Retirements and New Beginnings: The Transition to Tokens
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
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
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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The role of HTC in advancing population genetics research
Postdoctoral researcher Parul Johri uses OSG services, the HTCondor Software Suite, and the population genetics simulation program SLiM to investigate historical patterns of genetic variation.
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A Long-Awaited Reunion: HTCondor Week 2022 in Photos
HTCondor Week 2022 featured over 40 exciting talks, tutorials, and research spotlights focused on the HTCondor Software Suite (HTCSS). Sixty-three attendees reunited in Madison, Wisconsin for the long-awaited in-person meeting, and 111 followed the action virtually on Zoom.
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HTCondor Week 2022 Concludes
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!
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High-throughput computing as an enabler of black hole science
The stunning new image of a supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way was created by eight telescopes, 300 international astronomers and more than 5 million computational tasks. This Morgridge Institute article describes how the Wisconsin-based Open Science Pool helped make sense of it all.
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NIAID/ACE - OSG collaboration leads to a successful virtual training session
The U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and the African Centers for Excellence in Bioinformatics and Data-Intensive Science (ACE) partnered with the OSG Consortium to host a virtual high throughput computing training session for graduate students from Makerere University and the University Of Sciences, Techniques, and Technologies of Bamako (USTTB).
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Expanding, uniting, and enhancing CLAS12 computing with OSG’s fabric of services
A mutually beneficial partnership between Jefferson Lab and the OSG Consortium at both the organizational and individual levels has delivered a prolific impact for the CLAS12 Experiment.
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Learning and adapting with OSG: Investigating the strong nuclear force
David Swanson Memorial Award winner, Connor Natzke’s journey with the OSG Consortium began in 2019 as a student of the OSG User School. Today, nearly three years later, Natzke has executed 600,000 simulations with the help of OSG staff and prior OSG programming. These simulations, each of them submitted as a job, logged over 135,000 core hours provided by the Open Science Pool (OSPool). Natzke’s history with the OSG Consortium reflects a pattern of learning, adapting, and improving that translates to the acceleration and expansion of scientific discovery.
Read moreConnor Natzke awarded David Swanson Memorial Award
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.
Read moreCelebrating a dynamic OSG All-Hands Meeting 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.
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Machine Learning and Image Analyses for Livestock Data
In this presentation from HTCondor Week 2021, Joao Dorea from the Digital Livestock Lab explains how high-throughput computing is used in the field of animal and dairy sciences.
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Harnessing HTC-enabled precision mental health to capture the complexity of smoking cessation
Collaborating with CHTC research computing facilitation staff, UW-Madison researcher Gaylen Fronk is using HTC to improve cigarette cessation treatments by accounting for the complex differences among patients.
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Protecting ecosystems with HTC
Researchers at the USGS are using HTC to pinpoint potential invasive species for the United States.
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80,000 jobs, 40 billion base pairs, and 20 bats –– all in 4 weeks
An evolutionary biologist at the AMNH used HTC services provided by the OSG to unlock a genomic basis for convergent evolution in bats.
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Centuries of newspapers are now easily searchable thanks to HTCSS
BAnQ’s digital collections team recently used HTCSS to tackle their largest computational endeavor yet –– completing text recognition on all newspapers in their digital archives.
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Resilience: How COVID-19 challenged the scientific world
In the face of the pandemic, scientists needed to adapt. This article by the Morgridge Institute for Research provides a thoughtful look into how individuals and organizations, including the CHTC, have pivoted in these challenging times.
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Scaling virtual screening to ultra-large virtual chemical libraries
Kicking off the OSG User School Showcase, Spencer Ericksen, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Carbone Cancer Center, described how high throughput computing (HTC) has made his work in early-stage drug discovery infinitely more scalable.
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Transforming research with high throughput computing
During the OSG Virtual School Showcase, three different researchers shared how high throughput computing has made lasting impacts on their work.
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Using HTC for a simulation study on cross-validation for model evaluation in psychological science
During the OSG School Showcase, Hannah Moshontz, a postdoctoral fellow at UW-Madison’s Department of Psychology, described her experience of using high throughput computing (HTC) for the very first time, when taking on an entirely new project within the field of psychology.
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Antimatter: Using HTC to study very rare processes
Anirvan Shukla, a User School participant in 2016, spoke at this year’s Showcase about how high throughput computing has transformed his research of antimatter in the last five years.
Read moreCampus Cyberinfrastructure (CC*) Awardees Contribute Over 349 Million Core Hours in Last 12 Months
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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OSG fuels a student-developed computing platform to advance RNA nanomachines
How undergraduates at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln developed a science gateway that enables researchers to build RNA nanomachines for therapeutic, engineering, and basic science applications.
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OSPool Usage Hits Daily Record
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.
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How to Transfer 460 Terabytes? A File Transfer Case Study
When Greg Daues at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) needed to transfer 460 Terabytes of NCSA files from the National Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics (IN2P3) in Lyon, France to Urbana, Illinois, for a project they were working with FNAL, CC-IN2P3 and the Rubin Data Production team, he turned to the HTCondor High Throughput system, not to run computationally intensive jobs, as many do, but to manage the hundreds of thousands of I/O bound transfers.
Read moreRegister Now for the February 8-9 Campus Workshop
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).
Read moreSubmit Locally, Run Globally
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.
Read moreHigh Throughput Computing Powers Covid Genetic Sequencing
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.
Read moreNational Science Foundation establishes a partnership to advance throughput computing
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.
Read moreHigh 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.
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