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4.2Outreach Activities

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  Joint EGEE and OSG Workshop at the High Performance and Distributed Computing (HPDC 2009): “Workshop on Monitoring ,Monitoring, Logging and Accounting, (MLA) in Production Grids. http://indico.fnal.gov/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=2335
  
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  Presentation at BIO-IT WORLD CONFERENCE & EXPO 2009, Ramping Up Your Computational Science to a Global Scale on the Open Science Grid http://www.bio-itworldexpo.com/
  
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  Presentation to International Committee for Future Accelerators (ICFA) http://www-conf.slac.stanford.edu/icfa2008/Livny103008.pdf
  
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  Contributions to the DOE Grass Roots Cyber Security R&D Town Hall white paper.
  
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  Book contribution for “Models and Patterns in Production Grids” being coordinated by TeraGrid. http://osg-docdb.opensciencegrid.org/0008/000800/001/OSG-production-V2.pdf
  
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  Workshop at Grace Hopper conference. http://gracehopper.org/2008/assets/GHC2008-Program.pdf
  

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  theThe NSF Task Force on Campus Bridging (Miron Livny, John McGee)
  
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  Software sustainability (Miron Livny, Ruth Pordes)
  
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  DOE Cybersecurity (Mine Altunay)
  
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  ESNETESnet requirements gathering (Miron Livny, Frank Wuerthwein)
  
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  HPC Best Practices Workshop (Alain Roy).
  

In the area of international outreach, we were active in South America and maintaining our connection to the completed site in South Africa. OSG staff conducted a gridgrid training schools at the University of Johannesburg in April 2009 followed by a series of encounters with domain scientists with the goal of providing them with guidance in using cluster and grid computing techniques for advancing their research. In South America, partnership with the GRidUNESP regional grid was agreed to and Horst Severini from Oaklahoma University accepted the request to be the OSG liaison. He has attended 2 workshops in Sao Paolo to help the community establish their regional infrastructure supported by OSG services, software and experienced staff. OSG provided the staff for teaching a 2-week course in Colombia, again to support the next steps in the implementation of their regional cyberinfrastructure.

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  Co-sponsorship of the International Summer School on Grid Computing in France (http://www.issgc.org/). OSG sponsored 10 students to attend the 2 week2-week workshop, provided a key-note speaker and 3 teachers for lectures and hands-on exercises. 6 of the students have responded to our follow up queries and are continuing to use CI – local, OSG, TG.
  
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  Continued co-editorship of the highly successful International Science Grid This Week newsletter, www.isgtw.org. OSG is very appreciative that DOE and NSF have been able to supply funds matching to the European effort starting in January 2009. A new full time editor was hired effective July 2009. Future work will include increased collaboration with TeraGrid.
  
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  Presentations at the online International Winter School on Grid Computing
  http://www.iceage-eu.org/iwsgc09/index.cfm
  

4.3Internet dissemination

OSG co-sponsors the weekly electronic newsletter called International Science Grid This Week (http://www.isgtw.org/); this is a joint collaboration with the Enabling Grids for EScience (EGEE) project in Europe. Additional contributions, as well as a member of the editorial board, come from the TeraGrid. The newsletter has been very well received, having just published 152 issues with subscribers totaling approximately 5,641, an increase of over 35% in the last year. This newsletter covers the global spectrum of science, and projects that support science, using distributed computing. In the last year, due to the increased support from NSF and DOE, we have been able to increase the US effort contribution and thus improve our ability to showcase US contributions.

In addition, the OSG has a comprehensive web site to inform and guide stakeholders and new users of the OSG at http://www.opensciencegrid.org. As part of this we solicit and publish research highlights from our stakeholders; research highlights for the last year are accessible via the following links:

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  Linking grids uncovers genetic mutations
  Superlink-online helps genealogists perform compute-intensive analyses to discover disease-causing anomalies. August 2009
  
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   Grid helps to filter LIGO’s data
  Researchers must process vast amounts of data to look for signals of gravitational waves, minute cosmic ripples that carry information about the motion of objects in the universe. August 2009 
  
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  Grid-enabled virus hunting
  Scientists use distributed computing to compare sequences of DNA in order to identify new viruses. June 2009
  
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  Clouds make way for STAR to shine
  The STAR experiment, running compute-intensive analyses on the OSG to study nuclear decay, has successfully made use of cloud computing as well. April 2009
  
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  Single and Playing Hard to Get
  High-energy physicists recently discovered the top quark produced as a single particle. The tools and techniques that made this discovery possible advance the goal of observing the Higgs particle. March 2009
  

The abovementioned research highlights and those published in prior years are available at http://www.opensciencegrid.org/About/What_We%27re_Doing/Research_Highlights.

5.Participants

5.1Organizations

The members of the Council and List of Project Organizations

1. 
   Boston University
   
2. 
   Brookhaven National Laboratory
   
3. 
   California Institute of Technology
   
4. 
   Clemson University
   
5. 
   Columbia University
   
6. 
   Distributed Organization for Scientific and Academic Research (DOSAR)
   
7. 
   Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
   
8. 
   Harvard University (Medical School)
   
9. 
   Indiana University
   
10. 
    Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
    
11. 
    Purdue University
    
12. 
    Renaissance Computing Institute
    
13. 
    Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC)
    
14. 
    University of California San Diego
    
15. 
    University of Chicago
    
16. 
    University of Florida
    
17. 
    University of Illinois Urbana Champaign/NCSA
    
18. 
    University of Nebraska – Lincoln
    
19. 
    University of Wisconsin, Madison
    
20. 
    University of Buffalo (council)
    
21. 
    US ATLAS
    
22. 
    US CMS
    
23. 
    STAR
    
24. 
    LIGO
    
25. 
    CDF
    
26. 
    D0
    
27. 
    Condor
    
28. 
    Globus
    

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