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The OSG Open Facility: an on-ramp for opportunistic scientific computing

Abstract

The Open Science Grid (OSG) is a large, robust computing grid that started primarily as a collection of sites associated with large HEP experiments such as ATLAS, CDF, CMS, and DZero, but has evolved in recent years to a much larger user and resource platform. In addition to meeting the US LHC community's computational needs, the OSG continues to be one of the largest providers of distributed high-throughput computing (DHTC) to researchers from a wide variety of disciplines via the OSG Open Facility. The Open Facility consists of OSG resources that are available opportunistically to users other than resource owners and their collaborators. In the past two years, the Open Facility has doubled its annual throughput to over 200 million wall hours. More than half of these resources are used by over 100 individual researchers from over 60 institutions in fields such as biology, medicine, math, economics, and …

Date
2017
Authors
Bo Jayatilaka, T Levshina, C Sehgal, R Gardner, M Rynge, F Würthwein
Journal
Journal of Physics: Conference Series
Volume
898
Issue
8
Pages
082048
Publisher
IOP Publishing