XSEDE: Accelerating Scientific Discovery

TLDR

Computing is ubiquitous in science and engineering, with digital technologies underpinning and accelerating research across all domains, and access to integrated, well‑supported high‑end digital services is essential for advancing knowledge. XSEDE aims to enhance scientific productivity by providing scholars, researchers, and engineers with advanced digital services that enable open research and foster multidisciplinary collaborations to tackle society’s grand challenges. XSEDE delivers a federated, integrated suite of advanced digital services that connects high‑end facilities and campus resources, forming the foundation of a national e‑science infrastructure ecosystem. The e‑science infrastructure provided by XSEDE has tremendous potential to enable new advancements in research and education.

Abstract

Computing in science and engineering is now ubiquitous: digital technologies underpin, accelerate, and enable new, even transformational, research in all domains. Access to an array of integrated and well-supported high-end digital services is critical for the advancement of knowledge. Driven by community needs, the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) project substantially enhances the productivity of a growing community of scholars, researchers, and engineers (collectively referred to as "scientists"' throughout this article) through access to advanced digital services that support open research. XSEDE's integrated, comprehensive suite of advanced digital services federates with other high-end facilities and with campus-based resources, serving as the foundation for a national e-science infrastructure ecosystem. XSEDE's e-science infrastructure has tremendous potential for enabling new advancements in research and education. XSEDE's vision is a world of digitally enabled scholars, researchers, and engineers participating in multidisciplinary collaborations to tackle society's grand challenges.