Webinar: Throughput Computing with (inter)national cyberinfrastructure featuring Miron Livny

This webinar was originally hosted on Friday, August 29, 2025.

NSF CI Compass hosted webinar "Throughput Computing with (intern)national CI" featuring Miron Livny, professor of computer science at the Univeristy of Wisconsin-Madison, principal scientist at the Core Computational Technology of the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, director of the UW Center for High Throughput Computing (CHTC), director of the Software Assurance Marketplace, and the technical director of the Open Science Grid (OSG).

Abstract:

Following translational research methodology, the NSF funded PATh project has been advancing the state of the art of Throughput Computing methodologies and technologies with the active guidance of researchers from a diverse spectrum of domains and a wide range of project sizes. Ranging from single PI groups to major facilities like LIGO and the LHC experiments, services and software tools developed and operated by the PATh project are harnessing the capacity of facilities across the nation and around the globe to execute throughput-oriented workloads. In the past 12 months a network of HTCondor Access Points has served close to 400M jobs harnessing the capacity contributed to the Open Science Pool (OSPool) by more than 80 US institutions. Executing these jobs required the transfer of more than 5B files to and from the Execution Points. Several Major Facilities operate similar world-wide distributed HTCondor pools while others deploy them locally as overlays on a SLURM cluster. The talk will review the opportunities that PATh presents to the research community and discuss how research groups and collaborations can leverage these opportunities. All the software tools are distributed under an Open-Source license and all services are offered free of charge and preserve the local autonomy of the contributing organizations.

Bio:

Miron Livny received a B.Sc. degree in Physics and Mathematics in 1975 from the Hebrew University and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the Weizmann Institute of Science in 1978 and 1984, respectively. Since 1983 he has been on the Computer Sciences Department faculty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he is currently the John P. Morgridge Professor of Computer Science and a Vilas Research Professor. He serves as the director of the Center for High Throughput Computing (CHTC), is leading the HTCondor Software Suite effort and serves as the technical director of the OSG. He is a member of the scientific leadership team of the Morgridge Institute of Research where he leads the Research Computing theme.

Dr. Livny's research focuses on distributed processing and object management systems and involves close collaboration with researchers from a wide spectrum of disciplines. He pioneered the area of High Throughput Computing (HTC) and developed frameworks and software tools that have been widely adopted by academic, government and commercial organizations around the world.

Livny is the recipient of the 2006 ACM SIGMOD Test of Time Award the 2013 HPDC Achievement Award the 2020 IEEE TCDP Outstanding Technical Achievement Award, 2020 IEEE TCDP High Impact Paper Award and the 2023 UW-Madison Vilas Research Professor award.