Mission

OSP's mission is to broaden access to advanced research computing by eliminating the engineering and operational barriers that prevent institutions from delivering science gateways, HPC portals, and data repositories at scale.

Origin and Lineage

OneSciencePlace was designed as a production-grade service in direct response to the National Science Foundation's guidance to the Science Gateway Community Institute (SGCI) program. Its design draws directly on operational experience running HUBzero at SDSC and the lessons learned from supporting research communities on that platform — incorporating what worked, addressing what did not, and building toward a modern and sustainable evolution of research cyberinfrastructure. OSP combines concepts from HUBzero's content-centered design and community model, CIPRES's app user interface builder, Airavata's hosted platform model, and Tapis's API-driven compute and data integration into a composable, multi-tenant, no-code framework to serve research and education communities for the long term. SeedMeLab's data sharing and metadata system forms the foundation of OSP's data module — bringing a decade of experience in research data organization, annotation, and collaboration into the platform. SeedMeLab is now part of OneSciencePlace.

Design Principles 

Composability and flexibility — The modular architecture enables institutions to select only the necessary components (Compute, Data, Publish, CMS), ensuring a streamlined deployment that can easily adapt and scale as needs change.

Content-centric design — Every element, including applications, systems, publications, data, and documentation, is treated as a searchable, manageable piece of content within the CMS. This unifies control and improves discoverability throughout the entire portal.

User experience — OSP is designed with user experience as a core priority, with multiple iterations and user testing informing a compelling low-code/no-code platform accessible at all skill levels.

Sustainability — Technology choices were based on maturity, open-source principles, and a goal to develop a platform that would be maintainable and extensible over the long term.

Team

Current Core Contributors

OARC, UC Los Angeles: Amit Chourasia (Lead), Andrew Browning, Benjamin Winjum, Jerome Ronquillo, Jerry Huang, Shao-Ching Huang. 
SDSC, UC San Diego: Choonhan Youn (Lead), RDS team 
TACC, UT Austin: Joe Stubbs (Lead), Anagha Jamthe, Christian Garcia, Kevin Price, Maytal Dahan, Mike Packard, Rick Cardone, Steve Black

Collaborators

USC: Yehuda Ben-Zion (Lead), Akash Bhatthal, Fabio Silva, Philip J. Maechling 
UIUC: Ahmed Elbanna (Lead), Chunhui Zhao, Napat Tainpakdipat 
SIO, UC San Diego: Alice Agnes-Gabriel (Lead), David May, Bar Oryan, Jeena Yun, Fabian Kutschera

Foundational Contributors

We appreciate the work and insights of former team members and collaborators who helped shape the platform's initial architecture and design.

SDSC, UC San Diego: Claire Stirm, David Benham, Ilya Shunko, Jeanette Sperhac, Jesse Woo, Mark Zhuang, Mike Zentner, Mona Wong, Nicholas Kisseberth, Pascal Meunier, Paul Hoover, Rich Wellner, Scott Sakai, Steve Clark, Subhash Ramesh. Students: Siddharth Satyam. 
Indiana University: Marlon Pierce (Lead), Suresh Maru. Students: Amol Sangar, Dinuka DeSilva, Gaurav Nikam, Shivam Balaji, Simran Harshverdhan, Ujjwal Dubey, Vaibhav Vishwanath. 
Purdue University: Paul Parsons (Lead). Students: Ali Baigelenov, Ishaan Dandia, Raza Khawaja

Interested in collaborating or learning more? Contact the OSP team

See where OSP is headed next — OSP Development Roadmap

See where OSP deployed — Projects

Funding Acknowledgment

This work was funded by the National Science Foundation under award numbers 1547611, 2311206, 2311207, and 2311208. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.