Reaching Record Numbers of Contributing Institutions to the OSPool

An increasing number of campuses across the country are making an impact on science and contributing a share of their computing capacity to the OSPool. The OSPool is a crucial resource for researchers across the United States, providing access to any researcher affiliated with a U.S. institution to large-scale computational capacity to drive progress in science. Using HTCondor and other distributed computing technologies, the OSPool is designed to support high throughput workloads that consist of large ensembles of independent computations.

• 75 contributing institutions
• 243 projects
• 561 users

In the past year, 75 institutions contributed to the OSPool, setting a new record for the number of contributors. Many new campuses, diverse in size and location, are sharing their computing capacity and contributing their computing resources to help drive innovation and advance open science.

These campus contributions over the past 12 months have enabled PATh Access Points to complete more than 200M jobs that consumed more than 449K GPU hours and 250M core hours. In the past year, these contributions impacted 57 fields of science, more than 200 projects, and over 500 users.

Read here to learn more about integrating into the OSPool and testimonials from two contributing institutions.

[Note: Any researcher performing Open Science in the US can become an OSPool user. The OSPool provides its users with fair-share access (no allocation needed!) to processing and storage capacity contributed by university campuses, government-supported supercomputing institutions, and research collaborations.]

Featured OSPool Contributors

Colgate University

After integrating with PATh into the OSPool in 2023, Colgate University has provided in the last year alone over 20,000 core hours to the OSPool.

University of California, Merced

The University of California, Merced recently completed their integration with PATh and the OSPool in January 2025 and has already contributed to supporting 9 fields of science, 9 projects and contributed to research on over 20 other campuses.

Georgia Institute of Technology

Since first contributing to OSPool in 2019, Georgia Institute of Technology has already provided 1 million+ core hours of computing capacity to 45 institutions.

Louisiana State University

In 2020, Louisiana State University began contributing to OSPool. Since then, their resources have supported 25+ fields of science ranging from evolutionary biology to biomedical research to chemistry.

North Carolina State University

After integrating into the OSPool in 2023, North Carolina State University has supported over 45 different projects at various institutions including Carnegie-Mellon University, The University of Rutgers, Wayne State University and more.

University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

The University of Michigan-Ann Arbor began contributing to the OSPool in 2022. Their resources have contributed over 9.5 million hours to scientific research.

University of Wisconsin-La Crosse

Currently, the University of Wisconsin-Lacrosse is in the process of onboarding and becoming an OSPool contributor.

University of Washington

In 2017 the University of Washington became a contributor to the OSPool. They have provided over 2 million core hours.

Oral Roberts University

Oral Roberts University integrated into the OSPool in 2021. They have contributed to 40 fields of science and 98 research projects.

New Mexico State University

In 2020, New Mexico State University (NMSU) became a contributor to the OSPool. With over 600,000 jobs completed, they are helping 106 research projects.