About Open Storage Research Infrastructure

OSiRIS is funded by the NSF via a CC*DNI DIBBs grant awarded to the University of Michigan, Michigan State, Wayne State and Indiana University. Award Details are publicly available on the NSF website. The project also incorporates a small storage cache tier and services for researchers at the Van Andel Institute.

OSiRIS will provide a distributed, multi-institutional storage infrastructure that lets researchers write, manage, and share data from their own computing facility locations. It's goal is transparent, high-performance access to the same storage infrastructure from well-connected locations on any participating campus.

OSiRIS includes network discovery, monitoring and management tools as well as the creative use of Ceph features. The project will provide data sharing, archiving, security and life-cycle managment, implemented and maintained with a single distributed service.

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OSiRIS project engineering is coordinated by University Of Michigan Advanced Research Computing - Technology Services (ARC-TS).

The Principal Investigator is Shawn McKee, Research Scientist in the Department of Physics and the Director of the Center for Network and Storage-Enabled Collaborative Computational Science (CNSECCS). CNSECCS and OSiRIS are operated under the auspices of the Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering (MICDE).

University of Michigan Advanced Research Computing is an Associate member of the Ceph Foundation.

OSiRIS PIs

Shawn McKee				Lead PI University of Michigan
Patrick Gossman				Co-PI Wayne State University
Kenneth Merz				Co-PI Michigan State University
Martin Swany				Co-PI Indiana University

Current OSiRIS Staff

Jeremy Musser				IU Grad Student Engineer
Alex Shroyer				IU Engineer
Andy Keen				MSU Lead Engineer
Nick Rahme				MSU Engineer
Adam Pitcher				MSU Lead Engineer
Dan Kirkland				UM Network Engineer
Matt Lessins				WSU Network Engineer
Carlo Musante				WSU Network Engineer
Michael Thompson				WSU Lead Engineer

OSiRIS Undergraduate Students

Kristy Yoshimoto				IU Student Engineer
Kai Sandstrom				IU Student Engineer
Jackson Riggle				MSU REU Student

Former OSiRIS Students and Staff

These individuals contributed to OSiRIS but are not currently involved in the project.

Ezra Kissel				IU Lead Research Scientist
Grant Skipper				IU Grad Student Engineer
Charlie Miller				MSU Engineer
Jayashree Candadai				IU Principal Research Engineer
Miao Zhang				IU Grad Student Engineer
Xiaoxing (Adele) Han				MSU OSiRIS Logo Design
Victoria Cao				MSU REU Student
William Dixon				MSU REU Student
Jeff Goeke-Smith				MSU Network Engineer
Benjeman Meekhof				UM Lead Engineer
Jerome Kinlaw				UM Engineer
My Do				UM Student Engineer
Lillian Huang				UM Student Engineer
Ryan Marshall				UM Student Engineer
Charlie Monk				UM Student Engineer
Raul Dutta				UM Student Engineer
Keane Wolter				UM Engineer
Michael Gregorowicz				WSU Systems Architect