Grid and high-throughput computing

• GriPhyN (Grid Physics Network) 2000 to 2007
  GriPhyN: Towards Petascale Virtual-Data Grids. NSF (PI Paul Avery, Florida; UChicago through Ian Foster).
• Grid Telemetry 2001 to 2006
  ITR/AP: Grid Telemetry (started at Indiana, moved to UChicago in 2002). NSF, PI Gardner.
• iVDGL (International Virtual Data Grid Laboratory) 2001 to 2010
  iVDGL: An International Virtual-Data Grid Laboratory for Data Intensive Science. NSF, co-PI Gardner.
• Open Science Grid 2006 to 2023
  Open Science Grid (UChicago funded from 2006; founding member). NSF through UW–Madison.
• CESAR (LIGO/IceCube) 2018 to 2021
  CESAR: Data Infrastructure for Open Science in Support of LIGO and IceCube. NSF, PI Gardner.
• PATh (Partnership to Advance Throughput Computing) 2020 to 2026
  Partnership to Advance Throughput Computing (mid-scale collaboration support). NSF through UW–Madison.
• CI Connect (OSG, CMS, ATLAS, SPT, PSD Connect) 2013 to present
  CI Connect: hosted HTCondor access points, from OSG Connect and Duke Connect (August 2013) to SPT Connect and PSD Connect today. Operated by the Lab under OSG, PATh, U.S. ATLAS, SPT and PSD support.

ATLAS

• UChicago ATLAS group grant 2002 to 2023
  UChicago ATLAS group NSF grant (PI Young-Kee Kim, later David W. Miller); Gardner funded continuously since 2002. Distinct from the US ATLAS Operations Program.. NSF, Division of Physics.
• Broadening LHC Discovery Potential 2023 to 2027
  Broadening the Discovery Potential of the LHC: Instrumentation, Algorithms, and Training for Physics with the ATLAS Experiment and Direct Axion Detection (UChicago ATLAS group grant). NSF, PI David W. Miller.
• Building for Discoveries at the LHC 2026 to 2027
  Building for Discoveries at the LHC: Instrumentation, Algorithms, and Physics Analysis with the ATLAS Experiment and the HL-LHC (UChicago ATLAS group grant). NSF, PI David W. Miller.
• TeraPort 2003 to 2007
  Acquisition of TeraPort: A Grid Enabled Analysis Platform with Optical Connectivity. NSF, PI Gardner.
• ATLAS Physics Analysis Instrument 2010 to 2013
  MRI-R2 Consortium: Development of the U.S. ATLAS Physics Analysis Instrument (APAI), the Tier3 analysis facility consortium of nine NSF-funded ATLAS universities. NSF MRI-R2, led by CSU Fresno; UChicago Tier3 site, Gardner.
• US ATLAS Operations 2005 to 2017
  US ATLAS Operations Program, five-year cooperative agreements since 2005. NSF through Stony Brook and BNL.
• US ATLAS Operations 2017 to 2023
  US ATLAS Operations (ATLAS 2), with subawards to Indiana and Illinois. NSF through Stony Brook.
• US ATLAS Operations 2022 to 2027
  US ATLAS Operations: Discovery and Measurement (ATLAS 3). NSF through Stony Brook.

Platforms and software

• DASPOS 2012 to 2017
  DASPOS, Data and Software Preservation for Open Science, with Notre Dame (lead), Illinois and UChicago. NSF, PI Michael Hildreth (Notre Dame); co-PIs Gardner, Douglas Thain, Mark Neubauer, Jaroslaw Nabrzyski.
• VC3 (Virtual Clusters for Community Computation) 2016 to 2019
  Virtual Clusters for Community Computation. DOE.
• SLATE (Services Layer at the Edge) 2017 to 2023
  SLATE and the Mobility of Capability (CIF21 DIBBs). NSF, PI Gardner.
• SAND 2018 to 2020
  Scientific Analysis of Network Data. NSF through Nebraska.
• IRIS-HEP 2018 to 2024
  Institute for Research and Innovation in Software for High Energy Physics. NSF through Princeton.
• IRIS-HEP renewal 2024 to 2028
  IRIS-HEP renewal (UChicago subaward from September 2024). NSF through Princeton.

Networking and security

• Science DMZ (HiPerNet) 2012 to 2013
  CC-NIE: High Performance Research Networking (HiPerNet), the first UChicago Science DMZ. NSF, PI Klara Jelinkova (IT Services); science drivers and design led by Gardner, not on the official record.
• Science DMZ (CC*IIE) 2014 to 2016
  CC*IIE: A Performant and Reliable Science DMZ for National and International Collaboration. NSF, PI Gardner.
• FABRIC Across Borders 2020 to 2025
  IRNC Testbed: FAB, FABRIC Across Borders. NSF, PI Gardner.
• SOTERIA 2021 to 2025
  CICI UCSS: Securing an Open and Trustworthy Ecosystem (secure science registries). NSF, PI Gardner.

Current initiatives

• Analysis Facility at UChicago 2021 to present
  Analysis Facility at UChicago for U.S. ATLAS physicists. US ATLAS Operations and IRIS-HEP.
• RP1 2025 to present
  RP1 research and integration platform. with Indiana University.
• Elwood and Shannon 2026 to present
  Elwood agentic analysis framework and the Shannon governance framework. MANIAC Lab.
• Pile cluster for SBND 2026 to present
  Pile cluster for the UChicago SBND group (Kubernetes, HTCondor, Globus endpoint). MANIAC Lab with the UChicago neutrino group.
• Open Data Facility 2026 to present
  Open Data Facility on RP1. MANIAC Lab with CLARIPHY.
• AEGIS 2026 to present
  AEGIS agentic operations platform for ATLAS Distributed Computing. MANIAC Lab.

Team, from join date

• Rob Gardner 2002 to present
  Rob Gardner, Research Professor, Enrico Fermi Institute; Principal Investigator. Joined UChicago in 2002. Joined 2002.
• Fred Luehring 2005 to present
  Fred Luehring, Senior Scientist, Indiana University; leads the IU site of the Midwest Tier2 Center since its founding. With MWT2 since 2005.
• Ilija Vukotic 2012 to present
  Ilija Vukotic, Senior Computational Scientist. Joined March 2012. Joined 2012.
• Judith Stephen 2015 to present
  Judith Stephen, Senior Cyberinfrastructure Engineer. Joined January 2015. Joined 2015.
• David Jordan 2019 to present
  David Jordan, Cyberinfrastructure Engineer. Joined May 2019. Joined 2019.
• Fengping Hu 2021 to present
  Fengping Hu, Senior Research Platform Engineer. Joined August 2021. Joined 2021.
• Farnaz Golnaraghi 2021 to present
  Farnaz Golnaraghi, HPC Systems Administrator. Joined December 2021. Joined 2021.
• Aidan Rosberg 2024 to present
  Aidan Rosberg, DevOps Systems Engineer, Indiana University. Joined the MWT2 team in early 2024. Joined 2024.
• Giordon Stark 2026 to present
  Giordon Stark, Research Assistant Professor, Enrico Fermi Institute. Joined August 2026. Joined 2026.