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.

• Introducing the PATh Facility: A Unique Distributed High Throughput Computing Service ( 2022 )

• Erik Wright: A Biologist Using High Throughput Computing to Unravel Antibiotic Resistance (2024)

• Collaborations Between Two National Laboratories and the OSG Consortium Propel Nuclear and High-Energy Physics Forward (2024)

• NOAA funded marine scientist uses OSPool access to high throughput computing to explode her boundaries of research (2024)

• Addressing the challenges of transferring large datasets with the OSDF (2024)

• Junior researchers advance black hole research with OSPool open capacity (2024)

• “Becoming part of something bigger” motivates campus contributions to the OSPool (2024)

• Through the use of high throughput computing, NRAO delivers one of the deepest radio images of space (2024)

• Astronomers and Engineers Use a Grid of Computers at a National Scale to Study the Universe 300 Times Faster (2024)

• Ecologists utilizing HTC to examine the effects of megafires on wildlife (2024)

• Preserving historic Wisconsin aerial photos with a little help from CHTC (2024)

• OSG School mission: Don’t let computing be a barrier to research (2023)

• How the GLUE Lab is bringing the potential of HTC to track the movement of cattle and land use change (2023)

• Using HTC expanded scale of research using noninvasive measurements of tendons and ligaments (2023)

• Training a dog and training a robot aren’t so different (2023)

• Plant physiologists used high throughput computing to remedy research “bottleneck” (2023)

• OSG David Swanson Awardees Honored at HTC23 (2023)

• Great Plains Regional CyberTeam Expanding Capacity for Computing from Great Plains Campuses (2023)

• USGS uses HTCondor to advance Mars research (2023)

• OSPool As a Tool for Advancing Research in Computational Chemistry (2023)

• Distributed Computing at the African School of Physics 2022 Workshop (2023)

• Google Quantum Computing Utilizing HTCondor (2023)

• Empowering Computational Materials Science Research using HTC (2023)

• LIGO’s Search for Gravitational Waves Signals Using HTCondor (2022)

• The Future of Radio Astronomy Using High Throughput Computing (2022)

• Expediting Nuclear Forensics and Security Using High Throughput Computing (2022)

• Testing GPU/ML Framework Compatibility (2022)

• UW Statistics Course using HTC (2022)

• Using HTC and HPC Applications to Track the Dispersal of Spruce Budworm Moths (2022)

• Using high throughput computing to investigate the role of neural oscillations in visual working memory (2022)

• The role of HTC in advancing population genetics research (2022)

• High-throughput computing as an enabler of black hole science (2022)

• NIAID/ACE - OSG collaboration leads to a successful virtual training session (2022)

• Expanding, uniting, and enhancing CLAS12 computing with OSG’s fabric of services (2022)

• Learning and adapting with OSG: Investigating the strong nuclear force (2022)

• Machine Learning and Image Analyses for Livestock Data (2022)

• Harnessing HTC-enabled precision mental health to capture the complexity of smoking cessation (2021)

• Protecting ecosystems with HTC (2021)

• 80,000 jobs, 40 billion base pairs, and 20 bats –– all in 4 weeks (2021)

• Centuries of newspapers are now easily searchable thanks to HTCSS (2021)

• Resilience: How COVID-19 challenged the scientific world (2021)

• Scaling virtual screening to ultra-large virtual chemical libraries (2021)

• Transforming research with high throughput computing (2021)

• Using HTC for a simulation study on cross-validation for model evaluation in psychological science (2021)

• Antimatter: Using HTC to study very rare processes (2021)

• OSG fuels a student-developed computing platform to advance RNA nanomachines (2021)

• How to Transfer 460 Terabytes? A File Transfer Case Study (2021)

• Connor Natzke awarded David Swanson Memorial Award (2021)

• Hunting viral variants across Wisconsin, powered by high-throughput computing (2021)

• Chasing ghost particles with armies of computers (2018)

• High-throughput computing plays pivotal role in knee biomechanics research (2017)

• High Throughput Computing helps LIGO confirm Einstein’s last unproven theory (2016)

• High-throughput computing, HIV and the mystery of ‘elite controllers’ (2015)