American Science Cloud

American Science Cloud¹ (AmSC, pronounced “am-sec”) is a project to create “a system of United States government, academic, and private-sector programs and infrastructures utilizing cloud computing technologies to facilitate and support scientific research, data sharing, and computational analysis across various disciplines.”²

Contrary to its name, it has virtually nothing to do with any commercial cloud providers; DOE has opted to invent its own cloud.

$40M was appropriated to ascr to form an “infrastructure partnership” of DOE Labs that would build a federated, cloud-like API layer over existing ASCR HPC and networking facilities.

Relation to Genesis

The Genesis mission was announced four months after AmSC funding was appropriated, but Genesis launched and formally adopted AmSC as the platform infrastructure pillar.

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• Gina Tourassi (ORNL) is the PI
• Sarp Oral (ORNL) is the CTO
• Debbie Bard (NERSC) is the product manager

Footnotes

1. The official website appears to be here: https://american-science-cloud.github.io/amsc-site/ ↩

2. The American Science Cloud (AmSC) - Laboratory Announcement ↩