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Open Science Grid Consortium Receives $30M
The National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Science have announced a five-year, $30 million award to the Open Science Grid Consortium. The Grid is a computing environment used to share and analyze massive sets of data by harnessing the processing power for distributed computing resources from of than 50 international sites. Fifteen institutions, including 11 U.S. universities and four federal laboratories, participate in the Consortium, which will use the federal funds to make the Grid's computing power available to scientists and researchers across the country.
Since 2005, when the Grid came online, the system has had a significant impact in bioinformatics, computer science, nanotechnology, nuclear science and particle physics. The Grid has proved particularly beneficial to the University of Wisconsin at Madison, which is home to the project's lead investigators. The Wisconsin team has leveraged an additional $1.2 million in federal dollars to administer the program and has made the system's computing power easily available to local scientists.
Learn more about the Open Science Grid at http://www.opensciencegrid.org.