Mission

The Open Science Data Cloud (OSDC) NSF-sponsored Partnerships for International Research and Education (PIRE) program is driven by two main goals:

• Use the Open Science Data Cloud to train the next generation of scientists (graduate students and early career researchers) in data science and to sponsor their travel so that they can collaborate on data science research projects with OSDC partners in the United Kingdom, Namibia, the Netherlands, Japan, China, Brazil, and other countries.
• Perform research to improve scientific clouds, including their software stack, the software service they run, and the algorithms that support these services and to use the resulting knowledge to improve the OSDC.

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Recent Posts

OSDC PIRE Researchers (2016)

Meet the 2016 selected PIRE fellows!

Workshops and Materials from Supercomputing 2015

Workshops and materials from SC15 in Austin, Texas

Talks - Amsterdam 2015 Workshop

Presentations from the 2015 Amsterdam workshop.

OSDC Annual Workshop in Amsterdam - June 8-12, 2015

Information about the upcoming annual workshop on data intensive and cloud computing for PIRE fellows to be held at the University of Amsterdam.

Guest Blog Post - PIRE fellows in Namibia

PIRE Fellows Race Clark and Zac Flamig (meteorology PhD candidates at the University of Oklahoma) traveled to Windhoek, Namibia in the spring of 2015 to work with government officials and other local stakeholders to improve forecasting and monitoring of flood and drought impacts within the country. Namibia is a stable and prosperous middle-income country in an arid and semi-arid region with highly variable rainfall. Many citizens are heavily dependent on agriculture, which increases the need for accurate flood and drought monitoring. For all these reasons, Namibia has been an ideal place to build local capacity to effectively use hydrological models, remote sensing platforms, and cloud computing.

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