Service Provider Forum
The national cyberinfrastructure ecosystem is powered by a broad set of Service Providers (SP). The XSEDE Federation primarily consists of SPs that are autonomous entities that agree to coordinate with XSEDE and each other to varying degrees. The XSEDE Federation may also include other non-service provider organizations.
Service Providers are projects or organizations that provide cyberinfrastructure (CI) services to the science and engineering community. In the US academic community, there is a rich diversity of SPs, spanning centers that are funded by NSF to operate large-scale resources for the national research community to universities that provide resources and services to their local researchers. The Service Provider Forum is intended to facilitate this ecosystem of SPs, thereby advancing the science and engineering researchers that rely on these cyberinfrastructure services. The SP Forum provides:
- An open forum for discussion of topics of interest to the SP community.
- A formal communication channel between the SP Forum members and the XSEDE project.
SPs are classified as being at a specific level by meeting a minimum set of conditions.They may meet additional conditions at their option, but classification at a specific level will be based on the stated required minimum conditions.
Briefly, Level 1 SPs meet all the XSEDE integration requirements and will explicitly share digital services with the broader community. Level 2 SPs make some digital services accessible via XSEDE and Level 3 SPs are the most loosely coupled; they will share the characteristics of their services via XSEDE, but need not make those services available beyond their local community. For more detailed descriptions, see the documents linked below.
Leadership
SP Forum Elected Officers (as of January 17, 2019):
- Chair: Ruth Marinshaw, Stanford University
- Vice Chair: Mary Thomas, San Diego Supercomputer Center
- L2 Chair: Carol Song, Purdue University
- L3 Chair: Chet Langin, Southern Illinois University
- XAB Representative: David Hancock, Indiana University
- XAB Representative: Jonathan Anderson, CU Boulder
Charter
Membership Application
Current XSEDE Federation Service Providers
| SERVICE PROVIDER | SP LEVEL | REPRESENTATIVE | INSTITUTION |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stampede | Level 1 | Dan Stanzione | Univ of Texas at Austin |
| Comet | Level 1 | Mike Norman; Bob Sinkovits & Shawn Strande | San Diego Supercomputer Center |
| Wrangler | Level 1 | Dan Stanzione | Texas Advanced Computing Center |
| Jetstream | Level 1 | David Hancock, Jeremy Fischer | Indiana University |
| Bridges | Level 1 | Nicholas A. Nystrom | Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) |
| NCAR | Level 2 | Irfan Elahi & Eric Newhouse | NCAR |
| OSG | Level 2 | Miron Livny | Univ of Wisconsin |
| SuperMIC | Level 2 | Seung-Jong (Jay) Park and Steve Brandt | Louisiana State University |
| Rosen Center | Level 2 | Carol Song | Purdue University |
| Stanford Research Computing Center | Level 2 | Ruth Marinshaw | Stanford University |
| Beacon | Level 2 | Gregory D. Peterson | UTK/NICS |
| Science Gateways Community Institute | Level 2 | Marlon Pierce | Science Gateways Community Institute |
| Open Storage Network (OSN) | Level 2 | Kenton McHenry | Open Storage Network |
| Rutgers Discovery Informatics Institute (RDI2) | Level 3 | J.J. Villalobos | Rutgers University |
| Minnesota Supercomputing Institute (MSI) | Level 3 | Jeff McDonald | Minnesota Supercomputing Institute |
| Oklahoma State University High Performance Computing Center (OSUHPCC) | Level 3 | Pratul Agarwal | Oklahoma State University |
| Institute for Cyber-Enabled Research (iCER) | Level 3 | Andy Keen | Michigan State University |
| Oklahoma University Supercomputing Center for Education & Research (OSCER) | Level 3 | Henry Neeman | The University of Oklahoma |
| USDA-PBARC (Moana) | Level 3 | Brian Hall, Scott Geib | University of Hawaii |
| Arkansas High Performance Computing Center (AHPCC) | Level 3 | Jeff Pummill | University of Arkansas |
| DataONE | Level 3 | Bruce Wilson | University of New Mexico |
| Institute for Computational Research in Engineering and Science (ICRES) | Level 3 | Daniel Andresen | Kansas State University |
| Research Technology (RT) | Level 3 | Shawn Doughty | Tufts University |
| Vela computational resources | Level 3 | Suranga Edirisinghe | Georgia State University (GSU) |
| Advanced Research Computing - Technology Services (ARC-TS) | Level 3 | Brock Palen | University of Michigan |
| Palmetto | Level 3 | Dustin Atkins, Corey Ferrier | Clemson University |
| Langston University Computing Center for Research and Education (LUCCRE) | Level 3 | Franklin Fondjo-Fotou | Langston University |
| Holland Computing Center (HCC) | Level 3 | Hongfeng Yu | University of Nebraska |
| Advanced Research Computing Center (ARCC) Rocky Mountain Advanced Computing Consortium (RMACC) | Level 3 | Tim Brewer | University of Wyoming |
| West Virginia University Research Computing Group | Level 3 | Nathan Gregg | West Virginia University |
| NCGAS | Level 3 | Thomas Doak and Robert Henschel | Indiana University |
| Research Computing Group at USD | Level 3 | Ryan Johnson | University of South Dakota |
| University of Colorado-Boulder's Research Computing Group | Level 3 | Thomas Hauser | University of Colorado-Boulder |
| Center for Computationally Assisted Science & Technology | Level 3 | Dane Skow | North Dakota State University |
| BigDawg | Level 3 | Chet Langin | Southern Illinois University Carbondale |
| Research Computing Support Services | Level 3 | Timothy Middelkoop | University of Missouri |
| Information Technologies | Level 3 | Jeff Frey, Anita Schwartz | University of Delaware |
| Maryland Advanced Research Computing Center (MARCC) | Level 3 | Jaime Combariza | Johns Hopkins University |
| Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) Data Science Institute (DSI) | Level 3 | Amit Amritkar | University of Houston |
Former XSEDE Federation Service Providers
| Service Provider | SP Level | Representative | Institution | Acceptance Date | Exit Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gordon | Level 1 | Mike Norman | UCSD/SDSC | 17 September 2012 | Spring 2017 |
| FutureGrid | Level 1 | Geoffrey Fox | Indiana University | 17 September 2012 | Fall 2014 |
| Longhorn | Level 1 | Kelly Gaither | UT-Austin/TACC | 11 October 2012 | February 2014 Longhorn decommissioned |
| Steele/Wispy | Level 1 | Carol Song | Purdue | 17 September 2012 | July 2013 Steele/Wispy decommissioned |
| Ranger | Level 1 | Dan Stanzione | UT-Austin/TACC | 11 October 2012 | February 2013 Ranger decommissioned |
| MSS | Level 2 | John Towns | NCSA/Univ of Illinois | 17 September 2012 | 30 September 2013 MSS decommissioned |
| Kraken | Level 1 | Mark Fahey | UTK/NICS | 17 May 2012 | 30 April 2014 Kraken decommissioned |
| Lonestar | Level 1 | Dan Stanzione | UT-Austin/TACC | 11 October 2012 | 31 December 2014 Lonestar decommissioned |
| Keeneland | Level 1 | Jeffery Vetter | GaTech | 27 March 2013 | 31 December 2014 Keeneland decommissioned |
| Trestles | Level 1 | Richard Moore | UCSD/SDSC | 17 May 2012 | May 2015 Trestles decommissioned |
| Darter/Nautilus | Level 1 | Sean Ahern | UTK/NICS | 17 September 2012 | |
| Maverick | Level 1 | Dan Stanzione | UT-AUstin/TACC | Unknown | 1 April 2018 |
| Blue Waters | Level 2 | Bill Kramer | NCSA/Univ of Illinois | December 2019 | |
| ROGER | Level 3 | Shaowen Wang and Anand Padmanabhan | NCSA | December 2017 |
XSEDE's Peer Institutions
XSEDE also needs to interact with other XSEDE-like organizations as peers. There are already such examples both within the United States and internationally.
Current international interactions include:
- Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) – Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)
- European Grid Infrastructure (EGI) - Call for Collaborative Use Examples (CUEs)
- Research Organization for Information Science and Technology (RIST) – Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)