Astronomers and Engineers Use a Grid of Computers at a National Scale to Study the Universe 300 Times Faster March 05, 2024
Data Processing for Very Large Array Makes Deepest Radio Image of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field
User Spotlights
Ecologists utilizing HTC to examine the effects of megafires on wildlife February 26, 2024
Studying the impact of two high-fire years in California on over 600 species, ecologists enlist help from CHTC.
Preserving historic Wisconsin aerial photos with a little help from CHTC February 06, 2024
Associate State Cartographer Jim Lacy works with CHTC to digitize and preserve historical aerial photography for the public.
OSG School mission: Don’t let computing be a barrier to research December 20, 2023
The OSG Consortium hosted its annual OSG School in August 2023, assisting participants from a wide range of campuses and areas of research through HTC learning.
How the GLUE Lab is bringing the potential of HTC to track the movement of cattle and land use change December 15, 2023
Researching land use change in the cattle sector is just one of several large projects where the GLUE Lab is working to apply HTC.
Using HTC expanded scale of research using noninvasive measurements of tendons and ligaments November 27, 2023
With this technique and the computing power of high throughput computing (HTC) combined, researchers can obtain thousands of simulations to study the pathology of tendons and ligaments.
Training a dog and training a robot aren’t so different November 17, 2023
In the Hanna Lab, researchers use high throughput computing as a critical tool for training robots with reinforcement learning.
Plant physiologists used high throughput computing to remedy research “bottleneck” November 13, 2023
The Spalding Lab uses high throughput computing to study plant physiology.
OSG David Swanson Awardees Honored at HTC23 October 30, 2023
Jimena González and Aashish Tripathee named 2023’s David Swanson awardees
Great Plains Regional CyberTeam Expanding Capacity for Computing from Great Plains Campuses October 24, 2023
Great Plains Augmented Gateway to the OSG (GP-ARRGO) receives National Science Foundation (NSF) CC* award
USGS uses HTCondor to advance Mars research June 12, 2023
USGS uses HTCondor to pre-process 100,000+ images to enable access to Machine Learning and AI analysis of the Mars surface.
OSPool As a Tool for Advancing Research in Computational Chemistry April 25, 2023
Assistant Professor Eric Jonas uses OSG resources to understand the structure of molecules based on their measurements and derived properties.
Distributed Computing at the African School of Physics 2022 Workshop April 24, 2023
Over 50 students chose to participate in a distributed computing workshop from the 7th biennial African School of Physics (ASP) 2022 at Nelson Mandela University in Gqeberha, South Africa.
Google Quantum Computing Utilizing HTCondor March 01, 2023
Google’s launch of a Quantum Virtual Machine emulates the experience and results of programming one of Google’s quantum computers, managed by an HTCondor system running in Google Cloud.
Empowering Computational Materials Science Research using HTC January 20, 2023
Ajay Annamareddy, a research scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, describes how he utilizes high-throughput computing in computational materials science.
LIGO's Search for Gravitational Waves Signals Using HTCondor July 21, 2022
Cody Messick, a Postdoc at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) working for the LIGO lab, describes LIGO’s use of HTCondor to search for new gravitational wave sources.
The Future of Radio Astronomy Using High Throughput Computing July 12, 2022
Eric Wilcots, UW-Madison dean of the College of Letters & Science and the Mary C. Jacoby Professor of Astronomy, dazzles the HTCondor Week 2022 audience.
Using high throughput computing to investigate the role of neural oscillations in visual working memory July 06, 2022
Jacqueline M. Fulvio, lab manager and research scientist for the Postle Lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, explains how she used the HTCondor Software Suite to investigate neural oscillations in visual working memory.
Using HTC and HPC Applications to Track the Dispersal of Spruce Budworm Moths July 06, 2022
Matthew Garcia, a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Forest & Wildlife Ecology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, discusses how he used the HTCondor Software Suite to combine HTC and HPC capacity to perform simulations that modeled the dispersal of budworm moths.
UW Statistics Course using HTC July 06, 2022
For the first time, UW Statistics undergraduates could participate in a course teaching high throughput computing (HTC). John Gillett, lecturer of Statistics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, designed and taught the course with the support of the Center for High Throughput Computing (CHTC).
Testing GPU/ML Framework Compatibility July 06, 2022
Justin Hiemstra, a Machine Learning Application Specialist for CHTC’s GPU Lab, discusses the testing suite developed to test CHTC’s support for GPU and ML framework compatibility.
Expediting Nuclear Forensics and Security Using High Throughput Computing July 06, 2022
Arrielle C. Opotowsky, a 2021 Ph.D. graduate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s Department of Engineering Physics, describes how she utilized high throughput computing to expedite nuclear forensics investigations.
The role of HTC in advancing population genetics research June 01, 2022
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.
High-throughput computing as an enabler of black hole science May 12, 2022
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.
Expanding, uniting, and enhancing CLAS12 computing with OSG’s fabric of services May 02, 2022
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.
NIAID/ACE - OSG collaboration leads to a successful virtual training session May 02, 2022
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).
Learning and adapting with OSG: Investigating the strong nuclear force April 25, 2022
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.
Machine Learning and Image Analyses for Livestock Data February 22, 2022
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.
Harnessing HTC-enabled precision mental health to capture the complexity of smoking cessation December 16, 2021
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.
Protecting ecosystems with HTC November 09, 2021
Researchers at the USGS are using HTC to pinpoint potential invasive species for the United States.
Centuries of newspapers are now easily searchable thanks to HTCSS October 26, 2021
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.
80,000 jobs, 40 billion base pairs, and 20 bats –– all in 4 weeks October 26, 2021
An evolutionary biologist at the AMNH used HTC services provided by the OSG to unlock a genomic basis for convergent evolution in bats.
Resilience: How COVID-19 challenged the scientific world September 23, 2021
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.
Antimatter: Using HTC to study very rare processes August 19, 2021
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.
Using HTC for a simulation study on cross-validation for model evaluation in psychological science August 19, 2021
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.
Transforming research with high throughput computing August 19, 2021
During the OSG Virtual School Showcase, three different researchers shared how high throughput computing has made lasting impacts on their work.
Scaling virtual screening to ultra-large virtual chemical libraries August 19, 2021
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.
OSG fuels a student-developed computing platform to advance RNA nanomachines August 10, 2021
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.
How to Transfer 460 Terabytes? A File Transfer Case Study January 15, 2021
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.
