OSPool's Growing Number of Cores Reaching New Levels

Janet Stathas 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.

Cores crossed the 70,000 line –– for the very first time.
On December 9th total cores crossed the 70,000 line. The chart shows total cores in the OSPool rising from September (right) to December (left), 2022. The blue trend line is the 7 days moving average.


It is no small feat to top over 70,000 cores in a single day. Over 50 campuses and organizations freely contributed their resources to the OSPool in support of Open Science. These campuses and organizations are dedicated to their mission to support research computing on their own campus and across the country.

Each year additional campuses and organizations add their contributions to the OSPool. Campuses newly adding computing capacity to the OSPool this year come in all sizes and include Cardiff University, Kansas State, New Mexico State University, University of South Dakota, University of Maine and more.

The contributions to the OSPool this year supported the research of 180 science projects and over 75 million computing jobs.

Campuses interested in contributing to Open Science may submit a NSF funded Campus Cyberinfrastructure Proposal or contact us at [email protected].

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.