Workflow Management System

In 2016, the Vermont EPSCoR received a $20M award from the National Science Foundation to study and promote resiliency in Lake Champlain Basin. The study aimed at providing much needed information to decision-makers as they govern the basin and develop policies that reach far into the future. A novel computer … Read More

We will be holding regular online Pegasus Office Hours on Friday April 3rd, 2020 at 11AM Pacific. During this installment of Pegasus Office hours, we will be presenting a data collection pipeline we have developed to enable researchers of the Laser Inferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) to easily monitor and analyze … Read More

We are happy to announce the release of Pegasus 4.9.3. Pegasus 4.9.3 is a minor bug fix release after Pegasus 4.9.2. This release has support for Singularity Library as a source for pulling singularity containers, in lieu of Singularity HUB.  It also has support for non authenticated ftp to file … Read More

We will be holding regular online Pegasus Office Hours on Friday January 24th, 2020 at 11AM Pacific. This time, we will have an overview presentation of the recent work done to submit Pegasus Workflows on OLCF Summit. OLCF team provides an Openshift/Kubernetes based infrastructure within their DMZ that facilitates access … Read More

Savanna Mesch | January 15, 2020 Team recognized for “transformative contribution” to computing research with surprising discovery At the PEARC19 conference this past summer, researchers at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering won a transformative research award in addition to the best technical paper. The work focused on providing scientists extra assurances that their … Read More

The SciTech group does research and development on software systems to help scientists manage large-scale computations. We work with scientists in domains ranging from genomics and proteomics to seismology and gravitational wave physics. We help scientists deploy their computations on some of the largest and fastest computing systems in the … Read More

Summit is a leadership-class computing system for open science that is hosted at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Summit, launched in 2018, delivers 8 times the computational performance of Titan’s 18,688 nodes, using only 4,608 nodes. Its architecture with the associated GPU resources, makes it an attractive resource for scientists … Read More

Computational science today depends on many complex, compute and data-intensive applications operating on distributed datasets that originate from a variety of scientific instruments and data repositories. Two major challenges for these applications are (1) the provisioning of compute resources and (2) the integration of data into the scientists’ workflow. Background … Read More