The Science Automation Technologies Research Group (SciTech) at the USC Information Sciences Institute aims to empower the scientific community by conducting research and software development in the area of automation of scientific computing, providing tools such as workflow management systems like Pegasus. As a result, scientists can focus on their … Read More
PUG 2021 was a success! We had great user community engagement throughout the two-day event via Zoom and Slack. Thank you to all those who gave presentations and attended – you have all contributed to the improving Pegasus in more ways than one. In case you missed a session or … Read More
As the 2021 Open Science Grid – All Hands Meeting is coming to close, we wanted to bring to attention some interesting Pegasus users and mentions in talks. The meeting opened with the OSG director Frank Würthwein highlighting UNL graduate student Natasha Pavlovikj and her work on ProkEvo. Frank also … Read More
Note the author: Kelsie Lam is a senior at Mission San Jose High School. She is a SciTech research intern interested in artificial intelligence and cognitive science. In the lab, Kelsie investigates how scientists use machine learning methods to support their research and works on developing workflows. Github: https://github.com/kelsielam During … Read More
The Pegasus (SciTech) group will be actively participating in several events and presenting talks in workshops and panels at, PEARC20. Find below a list of events where you can virtually meet our team and our collaborators. We look forward to virtually seeing you! Monday July 27: Catch the Wave (PEARC20) 8:00am-12:00pm – Empowering … Read More
In 2016, Vermont EPSCoR received a $20M award from the National Science Foundation to study and promote resiliency in Lake Champlain Basin. The study aims to provide much needed information to decision-makers as they govern the basin and develop policies that reach far into the future. A novel computer model … 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