Spotlights

UW–Madison physicist Francis Halzen has been named a 2026 Nobel laureate in physics for his work as principal investigator of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. Over the course of that work, IceCube researchers have developed a longstanding collaboration with the Center for High Throughput Computing.

“How can HTCondor be used for economics?” asked Dr. Kenneth Judd, Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, when he presented his work on using high throughput computing (HTC) to model climate policy, and how the field of economics can utilize HTC.

Saloni Bhogale received the 2026 David Swanson Award at Throughput Computing Week 2026. The first David Swanson awardee whose research focused on political science, Bhogale is a UW-Madison Ph.D. candidate who leveraged high-throughput computing to analyze 80 million judicial records from India.

The annual OSG David Swanson Award is presented to University of Wisconsin–Madison researcher Saloni Bhogale, for her engagement with the community, and work using high throughput computing to analyze millions of judicial records.

Observing gaps in Large Language Models’ (LLMs’) abilities to process tabular data motivated UW-Madison Computer Sciences PhD candidate Sonia Cromp to develop Tabby, an architecture modification to LLMs that improves how they handle structured data.

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world's largest and most powerful particle accelerator, with two high-energy particle beams traveling at close to the speed of light before they are made to collide. But how do particle collisions go from data plots to groundbreaking scientific advancements, like confirming the existence of the Higgs-Boson Particle?

Where to find freely available GPU and CPU computing resources for research on diseases like Alzheimers, Parkinsons, and ALS? This challenge faced by labs and researchers is becoming more acute with the increasing use of AI and machine learning (ML) which demand more computing capacity. For Dr. Priyanka Joshi’s Biomolecular Homeostasis and Resilience Lab at Georgetown University, the National Science Foundation (NSF) supported OSPool and its HTCondor Software Suite was the answer.

The annual OSG David Swanson Award is presented to University of Nebraska-Lincoln postdoctoral researcher Brandi Pessman, for her engagement with the community, and work using high throughput computing to track spider web-construction behavior.

Ariana Negreiro, Ph.D, in the UW-Madison Digital Livestock Lab, discusses her work using images of cows to develop a machine learning application to monitor their health.

The National Research Platform (NRP) uses PATh resources to create an open cyberinfrastructure.

In 2022, the Thyme Lab faced a computing bottleneck at UAB. Ari Ginsparg, a PhD student, turned to the OSG, gaining access to ten times more resources, which significantly advanced their research.

ORU, a private university of 5,000 students located in Tulsa, Oklahoma, made significant progress in advancing their cyberinfrastructure in 2022 after receiving a CC* award.

In 2022, IceCube received the Readers' Choice Award for Best Use of High-Performance Computing, recognizing its use of cloud technologies and its expansion into the OSPool.

In his quest to analyze antibiotic resistance, researcher Erik Wright has relied on capacity from the Open Science Pool (OSPool) for over twelve years, this Fall surpassing 25 million jobs over the last 12 months alone.

Seeking to unlock the secrets of the “glue” binding visible matter in the universe, the ePIC Collaboration stands at the forefront of innovation. Led by a collective of hundreds of scientists and engineers, the Electron-Proton/Ion Collider (ePIC) Collaboration was formed to design, build, and operate the first experiment at the Electron-Ion Collider (EIC).

NOAA funded marine scientist uses OSPool access to high throughput computing to explode her boundaries of research.

Aashish Tripathee has used multiple file transfer systems and experienced challenges with each before using the Open Science Data Federation (OSDF). With the OSDF, Tripathee has already seen an improvement in data transfers.

The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration furthers black hole research with a little help from the OSPool open capacity.

A spotlight on two newer contributors to the OSPool and the onboarding process.

The National Radio Astronomy Observatory’s collaboration with the NSF-funded PATh and Pelican projects leads to successfully imaged deep space.

Studying the impact of two high-fire years in California on over 600 species, ecologists enlist help from CHTC.

Associate State Cartographer Jim Lacy works with CHTC to digitize and preserve historical aerial photography for the public.

The OSG Consortium hosted its annual OSG School in August 2023, assisting participants from a wide range of campuses and areas of research through HTC learning.

Researching land use change in the cattle sector is just one of several large projects where the GLUE Lab is working to apply HTC.

With this technique and the computing power of high throughput computing (HTC) combined, researchers can obtain thousands of simulations to study the pathology of tendons and ligaments.

In the Hanna Lab, researchers use high throughput computing as a critical tool for training robots with reinforcement learning.

The Spalding Lab uses high throughput computing to study plant physiology.

Jimena González and Aashish Tripathee named 2023's David Swanson awardees

Great Plains Augmented Gateway to the OSG (GP-ARRGO) receives National Science Foundation (NSF) CC* award

USGS uses HTCondor to pre-process 100,000+ images to enable access to Machine Learning and AI analysis of the Mars surface.

Assistant Professor Eric Jonas uses OSG resources to understand the structure of molecules based on their measurements and derived properties.

Over 50 students chose to participate in a distributed computing workshop from the 7th biennial African School of Physics (ASP) 2022 at Nelson Mandela University in Gqeberha, South Africa.

Google's launch of a Quantum Virtual Machine emulates the experience and results of programming one of Google's quantum computers, managed by an HTCondor system running in Google Cloud.

Ajay Annamareddy, a research scientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, describes how he utilizes high-throughput computing in computational materials science.

Over 60 students and researchers attended the Center for High Throughput Computing (CHTC) machine learning and GPU demonstration on November 16th.

Cody Messick, a Postdoc at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) working for the LIGO lab, describes LIGO's use of HTCondor to search for new gravitational wave sources.

Eric Wilcots, UW-Madison dean of the College of Letters & Science and the Mary C. Jacoby Professor of Astronomy, dazzles the HTCondor Week 2022 audience.

Arrielle C. Opotowsky, a 2021 Ph.D. graduate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Department of Engineering Physics, describes how she utilized high throughput computing to expedite nuclear forensics investigations.

Justin Hiemstra, a Machine Learning Application Specialist for CHTC’s GPU Lab, discusses the testing suite developed to test CHTC's support for GPU and ML framework compatibility.

For the first time, UW Statistics undergraduates could participate in a course teaching high throughput computing (HTC). John Gillett, lecturer of Statistics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, designed and taught the course with the support of the Center for High Throughput Computing (CHTC).

Matthew Garcia, a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Forest & Wildlife Ecology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, discusses how he used the HTCondor Software Suite to combine HTC and HPC capacity to perform simulations that modeled the dispersal of budworm moths.

Jacqueline M. Fulvio, lab manager and research scientist for the Postle Lab at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, explains how she used the HTCondor Software Suite to investigate neural oscillations in visual working memory.