GridIIT

The Open Science Grid (OSG) was established at Illinois Institute of Technology in 2016 as a joint initiative between IIT and the OSG to advance science through innovative computational approaches. The OSG consists of computing and storage elements at over 100 individual sites spanning the United States. These sites, primarily at universities and national labs, range in size from a few hundred to tens of thousands of CPU cores. GridIIT is a system consisting of computational resources Illinois Tech researchers have agreed to share with both the Illinois Tech research community and OSG. Illinois Tech researchers can access the OSG by virtue of their participation in the university’s GridIIT system.
Research increasingly depends on the collection and analyses of large quantities of data and detailed numerical simulations of complex phenomena. Progress can be constricted by researchers’ challenges in constructing complex software systems, harnessing large-scale computing, and accessing distributed resources. As a shared resource center, the OSG computer grid provides expert assistance to researchers whose work requires the most advanced computational methods. The OSG facilitates access to distributed, high-throughput computing (HTC) based on the HTCondor platform. The OSG’s resources are provided at no charge to university researchers who have joined their clusters to GridIIT.