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CHTC’s computing pioneering continues to advance science and society in new ways. Located at the heart of UW-Madison’s School for Computer, Data & Information Sciences (CDIS), CHTC offers exceptional computing capabilities and experienced facilitation support to campus researchers and international scientists alike. Working in collaboration with projects across all areas of study, CHTC helps innovate solutions that otherwise might not have been possible, while at the same time evolving the field of distributed computing.

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An overview of the IceCube site. Photo credit: IceCube/NSF
Francis Halzen Awarded 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics
Congratulations to Francis Halzen, awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics for contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos. IceCube has collaborated with CHTC for over a decade.
Members of the Center for High Throughput Computing at the Discovery Building in Madison, Wis.
NSF announces investment to shape the nation’s future data backbone
Morgridge and UW–Madison team up to provide data services for the AI era
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NSF announces $83M investment in integrated data systems and services to advance AI-driven science and strengthen U.S. research infrastructure
The U.S. National Science Foundation today announced $83 million in awards through the Integrated Data Systems and Services (IDSS) program. The awards will expand access to data infrastructure resources that researchers can use alongside computing and artificial intelligence resources to accelerate scientific discovery and innovation.

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Mentoring Propels Success of CHTC Fellows
Mentorship propels success of CHTC Summer Fellows Program
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Weaving data and computing into a nationwide fabric supporting science
The NSF-funded Fabric for AI-Driven Science (FabAID) builds on decades of CHTC experience in distributed computing to connect data repositories, computing capacity, and services for researchers at institutions large and small across the nation.
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AI Discussions Major Theme of Upcoming HTCondor European Workshop
HTCondor European Workshop 2026 to feature discussions on AI
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OSG School Students Build HTC Skills to Advance Their Research
55 researchers from 30 institutions across the US gathered for the 17th annual OSG School in Madison, WI.
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A Day of Learning and Collaboration at CHTC for Summer Undergraduate Researchers
For a second year, CHTC hosted undergraduate students from across the nation participating in the UW-Eau Claire Blugold Center for High Performance Computing Summer Research Experience for undergrads for a day of learning, networking, and sharing.
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Three Scientists from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Astronomy Community Present at HTC Week 2026
Last June, the first images from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory were revealed, processed using HTCondor. This June, three members of the Rubin astronomy community presented at Throughput Computing Week 2026, sharing how HTCondor powers their massive data workflows.
CHTC staff, including summer fellows, at HTC Week 2026. Credits: Jeff Peterson
Mentorship: Part of the Fabric of CHTC
Mentorship and learning go hand in hand at the Center for High Throughput Computing, a culture director Miron Livny has built over the years. Recently recognized by UW–Madison with a Hilldale Award for his devotion to mentorship, research, and service, Livny calls it "really an award to the CHTC."
Over 110 people joined HTC26 on UW–Madison's campus, and hundreds more participated virtually — in total representing 19 countries spread across five continents. Photo: Jeff Peterson.
Found in translation at HTC26: Throughput computing addresses new needs in AI, astrophysics
HTC26, the fourth annual Throughput Computing Week, brought an international research community to the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus on June 9-12 to assess challenges across science that demand a unique approach to computation.
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Breaking the GPU Bottleneck: How Distributed Computing is Expanding AI Training
Scaling machine learning through the power of the Partnership to Advance Throughput Computing (PATh) and the NAIRR Pilot
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OSPool Boasts 48% Growth in Users
From 2024 to 2026, the OSPool saw a 48% increase in users, rising to 730 users in 2026 (last 12 months). The OSPool, a shared computing capacity available to researchers at U.S. academic institutions, has seen significant growth in numbers over the last two years.
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A Conversation with CHTC Web Developer, Cannon Lock
A conversation with CHTC Web Developer, Cannon Lock.
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CHTC Hosted 2nd Annual Researcher Forum
The second annual CHTC Researcher Forum took place on February 17th 2026, connecting CHTC users and research computing community members across UW-Madison campus. The event started off with an introductory presentation from PI Brian Bockleman, followed by Center for Throughput Computing “CHTC” updates from the Research Facilitation team. UW-Madison alumni Dr. Ariana Neigreiro gave the keynote address on her work using HTCondor, DAGman workflows, and Pelican to develop tools for dairy cattle management.
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Bioinformatics Café: Building Community and Bridging Computing and Biology
The Bioinformatics Café is a monthly, hands-on meetup hosted by the Center for High Throughput Computing (CHTC) at UW-Madison, which provides a space for life-science researchers to learn, co-work, and troubleshoot with support from expert facilitators. The Café offers a space to build skills, refine workflows, and connect with fellow researchers solving similar problems in bioinformatics and high-throughput computing.
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2025 HTCondor European Workshop Showcases Advances in High Throughput Computing
Showcasing both technical advances and real-world applications of HTCondor, the 2025 HTCondor European Workshop was held at the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences (FZU) in Prague from September 16-19.
Erik Wright presenting his HTC25 Keynote Presenation.
HTCondor Celebrates 40 Years Powered by Community
The high-throughput computing community — including scientists, researchers, developers, administrators and facilitators — gathered at UW–Madison on June 3 to celebrate 40 years of “The Condor Project,” now known as HTCondor.
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HTC Strikes Again
🔭 How AI and Supercomputers Are Revealing the Secrets of Black Holes
Erik Wright presenting his HTC25 Keynote Presenation.
OSPool Is a Game Changer: HTC25 Keynote Presentor Erik Wright
Dr. Erik Wright, in his presentation “Biological Diversity at an Unfathomable Scale” at HTC25, explored how high-throughput computing and the OSPool is being used to unlock the functions of novel genes.
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Reaching Record Numbers of Contributing Institutions to the OSPool
In the past year, 75 institutions contributed to the OSPool, setting a new record for the number of contributors.
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PATh Becomes NAIRR Pilot Service Provider for AI Workloads
As of February 20th, the Partnership to Advance Throughput Computing (PATh) project is now a listed resource provider for the National Artificial Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) Pilot Project. The PATh project provides allocatable services to support the entire life cycle of AI workloads–training data generation, training data cleaning, model training, and inference (prediction) using AI models.
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HTC News Shorts: February 2025
This feature centers on two news updates from the Center For High Throughput Computing: The CC* (Campus Cyberinfrastructure) PI Workshop and the impacts of HTC on study of Neuroscience and Addiction.
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HTC News Shorts: January 2025
This feature centers on news updates from the Center For High Throughput Computing; ranging from the growing HTC international community to fostering new relationships with other American institutions to centering on the ethics of throughput computing use and distribution.
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Decoding the Sun’s Secrets With the Help of Pelican
Astronomers and computer scientists at the University of Hawaiʻi, Moana are unlocking the Sun’s magnetic mysteries with the help of cutting-edge data caching and transfer applications provided by the Pelican Project and the Open Science Data Federation (OSDF).
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Fostering Community Amongst Developers and Researchers: A Reflection on the 2024 European Autumn HTCondor Workshop
The 2024 European Autumn HTCondor Workshop set out to grow a community with HTCondor users and developers and to advance scientific research endeavors.
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Student Fellows Advance Research Computing Infrastructure at CHTC
Story on the inaugural 2024 CHTC Fellows Program was designed to immerse undergraduate and graduate students in the world of high throughput computing.
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A Spotlight on Cole Bollig: Finding CHTC, Community, and Learning HTCondor
"As a software developer, I could be working at a large tech firm or at Facebook or Google to create a new obscure feature that a few people interact with and feed the pockets of millionaires. Instead, I’m helping the scientific community. It feels awesome, important, to be a part of something like that" -Cole Bollig
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High Throughput Community Builds Stronger Ties at HTC24 Week
Throughput Computing Week 2024 Brings Together the HTC Community
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CHTC Launches First Fellow Program
CHTC kicks off its 2024 summer fellowship program.
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Advancing computational throughput of NSF funded projects with the PATh Facility
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Tribal College and CHTC pursue opportunities to expand computing education and infrastructure
Salish Kootenai College and CHTC take steps toward bringing underrepresented communities to cyberinfrastructure.
From left to right, Senior Bioinformaticist of the Institute for Comparative Genomics Apurva Narechania, Research Computing Facilitator Rachel Lombardi, and Bioinformatics Specialist Dean Bobo at the AMNH.
The American Museum of Natural History Ramps Up Education on Research Computing
With a multi-day workshop, the museum strives to expand the scale of its educational and training services by bringing additional computing capacity resources to New York-area researchers and tapping into the power of high throughput computing (HTC).
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The Pelican Project: Building a universal plug for scientific data-sharing
Advancing Open Science: The Pelican Project's Pursuit of Universal Data Accessibility
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CHTC Launches First Introductory Workshop on HTC and HPC
On November 8, CHTC hosted a hands-on workshop for researchers new to high throughput computing (HTC) or high performance computing (HPC).
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HTCondor European Workshop returns for ninth year in Orsay, France
The ninth 2023 HTCondor European Workshop occurred in Orsay, France, September 19-22
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Construction Commences on CHTC's Future Home in New CDIS Building
On April 25th, UW-Madison broke ground on the new School of Computer, Data & Information Sciences and CHTC's new home.
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Get To Know Student Communications Specialist Hannah Cheren
During her two year tenure with the Morgridge Institute for Research - Research Computing lab, Hannah Cheren made significant science writing contributions and along the way changed the direction of her life.
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The CHTC Philosophy of High Throughput Computing – A Talk by Greg Thain
HTCondor Core Developer Greg Thain spoke to UW faculty and researchers about research computing and the missions and goals of the Center for High Throughput Computing (CHTC).
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Fire up the GPUs: UW-Madison, Morgridge project sparks next-level computing
The Center for High-Throughput Computing (CHTC), a joint partnership of UW-Madison School of Computer, Data & Information Sciences and the Morgridge Institute, sees this onslaught of data and says: Bring it on.
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Get To Know Todd Tannenbaum
Staff profile of the HTCSS Software Lead, Todd Tannenbaum.
Christina Koch presenting to Kaiping Chen's class.
CHTC Leads High Throughput Computing Demonstrations
Students and researchers acquire high-throughput computing knowhow from CHTC led demonstrations.
Staff and researchers from the OSG User School 2022.
OSG User School 2022 Researchers Present Inspirational Lightning Talks
The OSG User School student lightning talks showcased their research, inspiring all the event participants.
Research Computing Facilitators Christina Koch (left) and Rachel Lombardi (right).
CHTC Facilitation Innovations for Research Computing
After adding Research Computing Facilitators in 2013-2014, CHTC has expanded its reach to support researchers in all disciplines interested in using large-scale computing to support their research through the shared computing capacity offered by the CHTC.
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High-throughput computing: Fostering data science without limits
The Center for High-Throughput Computing (CHTC), a joint partnership of UW-Madison School of Computer, Data & Information Sciences and the Morgridge Institute, sees this onslaught of data and says: Bring it on.
HPCwire 2022 Readers' Choice Awards - Best use of HPC in the Cloud ( Use Case )
UW–Madison's Icecube Neutrino Observatory Wins HPCwire Award
The UW-Madison Center for High Throughput Computing’s (CHTC) collaboration with the San Diego Supercomputer Center on the IceCube Neutrino Observatory received recognition with the HPCwire 2022 Readers’ Choice Award for Best Use of High Performance Computing (HPC) in the Cloud (Use Case).
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Over 240,000 CHTC Jobs Hit Record Daily Capacity Consumption
The colors on the chart correspond to the total number of core hours – nearly 884,000 – utilized by researchers at participating universities on PATh Facility hardware located at SDSC.
PATh Extends Access to Diverse Set of High Throughput Computing Research Programs
UCSD announces the new PATh Facility and discusses its impact on science.
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Meet Joe B. from the CHTC
Staff profile of Joe B., a Systems Administrator at the CHTC.
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Solving for the future: Investment, new coalition levels up research computing infrastructure at UW–Madison
Summary of Corissa Runde's article from the UW-Madison Department of Information Technology website.
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Technology Refresh
Thanks to the generous support of the Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education with funding from the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, CHTC has been able to execute a major refresh of hardware. This provided 207 new servers for our systems, representing over 40,000 batch slots of computing capacity.
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Introducing the PATh Facility: A Unique Distributed High Throughput Computing Service
Researchers can now request credits on the PATh Facility, the PATh project’s new service intended for distributed high throughput computing workflows supporting NSF science.
Computer rendering of DNA. Image credit: Sangharsh Lohakare (@sangharsh_l) on Unsplash.
The role of HTC in advancing population genetics research
Postdoctoral researcher Parul Johri uses OSG services, the HTCondor Software Suite, and the population genetics simulation program SLiM to investigate historical patterns of genetic variation.
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A Long-Awaited Reunion: HTCondor Week 2022 in Photos
HTCondor Week 2022 featured over 40 exciting talks, tutorials, and research spotlights focused on the HTCondor Software Suite (HTCSS). Sixty-three attendees reunited in Madison, Wisconsin for the long-awaited in-person meeting, and 111 followed the action virtually on Zoom.
Simulated image of Sagittarius A* black hole. Image library credit: EHT Theory Working Group, CK Chan.
High-throughput computing as an enabler of black hole science
The stunning new image of a supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way was created by eight telescopes, 300 international astronomers and more than 5 million computational tasks. This Morgridge Institute article describes how the Wisconsin-based Open Science Pool helped make sense of it all.
Map of Africa; Mali and Uganda are highlighted where their respective flags point. Image credit: © 2010 Roland Urbanek. Flags are edited in and overlayed on the image.
NIAID/ACE - OSG collaboration leads to a successful virtual training session
The U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and the African Centers for Excellence in Bioinformatics and Data-Intensive Science (ACE) partnered with the OSG Consortium to host a virtual high throughput computing training session for graduate students from Makerere University and the University Of Sciences, Techniques, and Technologies of Bamako (USTTB).
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Machine Learning and Image Analyses for Livestock Data
In this presentation from HTCondor Week 2021, Joao Dorea from the Digital Livestock Lab explains how high-throughput computing is used in the field of animal and dairy sciences.
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Harnessing HTC-enabled precision mental health to capture the complexity of smoking cessation
Collaborating with CHTC research computing facilitation staff, UW-Madison researcher Gaylen Fronk is using HTC to improve cigarette cessation treatments by accounting for the complex differences among patients.
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Protecting ecosystems with HTC
Researchers at the USGS are using HTC to pinpoint potential invasive species for the United States.
Newspaper Spread
Centuries of newspapers are now easily searchable thanks to HTCSS
BAnQ's digital collections team recently used HTCSS to tackle their largest computational endeavor yet –– completing text recognition on all newspapers in their digital archives.
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Resilience: How COVID-19 challenged the scientific world
In the face of the pandemic, scientists needed to adapt. This article by the Morgridge Institute for Research provides a thoughtful look into how individuals and organizations, including the CHTC, have pivoted in these challenging times.
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Using HTC for a simulation study on cross-validation for model evaluation in psychological science
During the OSG School Showcase, Hannah Moshontz, a postdoctoral fellow at UW-Madison’s Department of Psychology, described her experience of using high throughput computing (HTC) for the very first time, when taking on an entirely new project within the field of psychology.
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Antimatter: Using HTC to study very rare processes
Anirvan Shukla, a User School participant in 2016, spoke at this year's Showcase about how high throughput computing has transformed his research of antimatter in the last five years.
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