Open Science Data Cloud

The Open Science Data Cloud (OSDC) Partnerships for International Research and Education (PIRE) program is an NSF-sponsored project that provides international research and education experiences through training and study at universities and research institutes around the world with leading scientists in the field of computing. Our goal is to train... participants in managing and analyzing large scientific datasets. Another important goal of this project is to develop a globally distributed cyberinfrastructure for managing large and distributed scientific datasets. Our strategy is to achieve this by splitting the development of the OSDC facility and the education and outreach activities between US and international partner sites. The transformative technology developed by this project is broadly applicable to any scientific project in which the investigator is struggling to manage and analyze the data produced. The Open Science Data Cloud PIRE team has been helping develop large-scale distributed computing capabilities to provide long-term, persistent storage for scientific data. The team has also been developing state-of-the-art services for integrating, analyzing, sharing and archiving scientific data with partners in the United States, the United Kingdom, Brazil, the Netherlands, Japan, Korea, and China. This program provides US graduate students and early career scientists with international research and education experiences and increases the virtual international engagement of the US institutions via distributed research collaborations, workshops with transcontinental participation, global web discussions, and focused social networking forums.Read More