The Open Science Data Cloud (OSDC) is a project by the Open Cloud Consortium aimed at providing cloud infrastructure to support the scientific community by managing, archiving, and analyzing medium to large datasets. The project also seeks to create protocols and tools for data encapsulation, integration of new infrastructure, and long-term data preservation in cloud environments. Funding and collaborative efforts are planned from 2011 to 2020 across multiple phases to enhance scientific data access and analysis capabilities.

1. OCC Open Science Data Cloud(www.opensciencedatacloud.org)Robert GrossmanUniversity of ChicagoOpen Cloud ConsortiumOpen Data GroupJuly 5, 20111

2. I’ll describe a new project (the Open Science Data Cloud) and three research questions generated by the project.

3. Open Science Data CloudThe OCC is a not-for-profit supporting the scientific community by operating cloud infrastructure.

4. The OSDC is a hosted distributed facility managed by the OCC that:Manages & archives medium and large size datasets.Provides computational resources to analyze them.Provides networking to share the datasets with your colleagues and with the public.

5. Phase 12011 - 2014Proof of Concept2008 - 2010Phase 22015-20204 locations

6. 10G networks

7. 450+ nodes

8. 3000 cores

9. 2 PB

10. Build a data center for science.

11. Drive the the 4th paradigm.