Planet OSG: Open for readers

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Planet OSG is a new website that aggregates blogs from members of the Open Science Grid community. They're full of juicy details on the inner workings of the OSG.

The website is already home to five blogs, three of which launched at the same time as Planet OSG. Here’s a quick summary of each blog:

• An Open Science Grid Work Log – A collection of news, recipes and discussion related to work on the Open Science Grid. Posts generally relate to both high-throughput computing as well as emerging work in high-throughput / performance computing (HTPC). The blog is written by Steven Cox, the cyberinfrastructure engagement lead at the Renaissance Computing Institute in North Carolina, USA.
• Derek Weitzel’s blog - Derek Weitzel is a computer scientist working towards a Ph.D. at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. His posts so far have discussed a variety of topics, including visualization, distributed computing, and system administration.
• Inside OSG Ops – This blog is a place to tell the stories of OSG Operations. These stories may include interesting events, technical problems that have led to important lessons learned, or anything about OSG Operations that may lend itself to interesting reading. Contributors will consist of all OSG Operations personnel at Indiana University, where OSG houses operational services.
• OSG Metrics & Assessment – This blog, written by Rob Gardner, includes posts about metrics collection, analysis, and assessment for the Open Science Grid. Rob Gardner is the metrics and assessment lead for OSG, the integration program manager for the US ATLAS Software and Computing project, principal investigator for the ATLAS Midwest Tier 2 Center, and a senior fellow and physicist at the University of Chicago's Enrico Fermi and Computation Institutes.
• OSG Technology Area Rumblings – Organized by Brian Bockelman, this blog provides updates on the activities of the OSG Technology Area. It also includes posts on distributed high-throughput computing as a whole. Brian Bockelman is the lead for OSG metrics, and a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Check them out as their posts turn up in iSGTW’s around the web box, subscribe to the blogs individually, or grab the aggregated RSS or atom feed at Planet OSG.