What is a gateway?
Science gateways allow science & engineering communities to access shared data, software, computing services, instruments, educational materials, and other resources specific to their disciplines.
Are you...
...developing gateways and related software that serve your science discipline?
...a domain-based scientist or engineer who needs a gateway?
...a campus-based IT administrator or staff member lacking manpower or expertise to provide specialized services?
...a student or educator who wants to learn more about gateways?
What we do
The Science Gateways Community Institute serves the science gateway community with NSF-funded, online and in-person resources and services. Our goal is to facilitate the sharing of experiences, technologies, and practices within this community at little or no cost to our community members.
Explore our services
Our team offers five service areas to support gateways throughout their lifecycle:
SGCI Updates
October 11, 2017
October Webinar: BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing)
SGCI hosts a free webinar series on the second Wednesday of each month at 1 pm Eastern/10 am Pacific time.
Our next webinar will be about BOINC (Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing), which coordinates volunteer computing resources. This webinar will review the technical aspects of a collaboration with the nanoHUB nanoscience gateway that greatly increases the computing throughput available and will do so at a lower cost than using commercial clouds and dedicated hardware. Join the webinar to learn how BOINC is helping nanoHUB and how you can use this technology in your science gateway!
Read the full abstract and register now.
Video and slides from our September gateway showcase webinar featuring I-TASSER and Chem Compute are now posted in our webinar archive.
MoreDUE: October 2, 2017
Center for Trustworthy Scientific Cyberinfrastructure (CTSC) One-on-One Engagements
CTS conducts one-on-one engagements to support a variety of engagement types, including assistance in developing, improving, or evaluating an information security program; software assurance-focused efforts; identity management; technology or architectural evaluation; training for staff, and more. Applications for engagements to be executed January through June of 2018 are due October 2, 2017.
MoreSeptember 19, 2107
XSEDE Seminar on Cosmic^2 Science Gateway & MPI Code for Simulating Black Holes
Join this month's XSEDE Extended Collaborative Support Services (ECSS) Seminar to hear from Mona Wong of SGCI and the San Diego Supercomputer Center and Damon Dougall of the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC). Mona will be talking about her work on the Cosmic^2 Cryo-EM science gateway for PI Michael Cianfrocco from the University of Michigan, and Damon will talk about his work with PI Patrick Fragile from the College of Charleston to have Cosmos++, an MPI code for simulating black holes, run on Stampede2.
MoreUpcoming: September 18, 2017
International Coalition on Science Gateways — RDA 10th Plenary Collocated Event
This will be a meeting of stakeholders involved in the International Coalition on Science Gateways to discuss the Coalition's short and long-term goals.
The meeting will take place 9 am - 1 pm in Montreal, collocated with the RDA 10th Plenary Meeting which will take place September 19-21, 2017. There is no cost to attend the meeting. Registration is required.
Summer Meeting for the Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP)>MoreUpcoming: September 18–19, 2017
FIM4R Workshop — RDA 10th Plenary Collocated Event
The 11th face to face meeting of the Federated Identity Management for Research (FIM4R) meeting will be held in Montreal, Canada on September 18 and 19, 2017 and is deliberately collocated with the 10th RDA Plenary Meeting. FIM4R is a collection of research communities and infrastructures with a shared interest in enabling Federated Identity Management for their research cyber infrastructures.
MoreUpcoming: January 3-6, 2018
HICSS-51: Minitrack on "Turning Smart"
The Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) is one of the longest standing scientific communities in the information systems and technology fields. The 51st conference will take place January 3-6, 2018. SGCI’s Sandra Gesing is co-chairing a minitrack titled ”Turning Smart: Challenges and Experiences in Smart Application Development” with Peter Salhofer from FH JOANNEUM and Charlie Catlett from Argonne National Laboratory and University of Chicago.
MoreSeptember 7, 2017
Inspiration for Building On-Campus Teams at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
SGCI's Sandra Gesing recently gave a seminar on building campus gateway groups at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Read her blog post to learn how one university department is working toward developing a campus gateway group to ensure that science gateway projects on campus can be served more effectively, efficiently, reliably, and cost-effectively.
MoreAugust 9, 2017
PEARC17 Report from SGCI Staff and Students
Several SGCI staff members and SGCI-sponsored students were in attendance at PEARC17. Read what they have to say about their experiences at the conference, which took place July 9 - 13, 2017 in New Orleans.
MoreAugust 15, 2017
People of SGCI: Ann Zimmerman, Evaluator
This month we feature Ann Zimmerman, who works closely with SGCI leadership and staff to design and implement systematic processes to collect and analyze data to help understand where things are working well to meet SGCI’s goals and where they might work better. Ann also serves as a consultant within the Incubator service area. Read more to get to know Ann and find out why she thinks she might benefit by gaining one specific quality shared by Batman and Thor.
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