Mission & Philosophy
OneSciencePlace is a fully managed, low-code platform that enables you to build, deploy, and provide seamless user access to custom Science Gateways, HPC/Data Portals, and Repositories.
The platform 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, by incorporating lessons and insights from previous pioneering efforts, including Hubzero, CIPRES, SeedMeLab, Airavata, and Tapis. OneSciencePlace provides a modern, sustainable evolution of research cyberinfrastructure.
Core Philosophy
- 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 regarded as a searchable, manageable piece of content within the CMS. This unifies control and improves discoverability throughout the entire portal.
- User Experience (UX): OneSciencePlace heavily focuses on user experience and has gone through multiple iterations and user testing to create a compelling, low-code/no-code platform accessible for 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 for at least 10 years.
We sincerely thank all current and former team members, collaborators, projects, and sponsors whose contributions have supported OneSciencePlace since its beginning.
Core Institutional Contributors (Currently Active)
| Institution | Lead Contributor |
|---|---|
| OARC, UC Los Angeles | Amit Chourasia (formerly at SDSC) |
| SDSC, UC San Diego | Choonhan Yoon |
| TACC, UT Austin | Joe Stubbs |
Full Team and Collaborator List
OARC, UC Los Angeles: Andrew Browning, Benjamin Winjum, Jerome Ronquillo, Jerry Huang, Justin Tea, Shao-Ching Huang.
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.
TACC, UT Austin: Anagha Jamthe, Christian Garcia, Kevin Price, Maytal Dahan, Mike Packard, Rick Cardone, Steve Black
Foundational Collaborators
We recognize and appreciate the important foundational work and direct insights contributed by our collaborators at Indiana University and Purdue University, whose efforts helped shape the platform's initial architecture and philosophy.
Indiana Univ: Marlon Pierce (Lead), Suresh Maru, Students: Amol Sangar, Dinuka DeSilva, Gaurav Nikam, Shivam Balaji, Simran Harshverdhan, Ujjwal Dubey, Vaibhav Vishwanath.
Purdue Univ: Paul Parsons (Lead). Students: Ali Baigelenov, Ishaan Dandia, Raza Khawaja
Funding Acknowledgment
This work was funded by the National Science Foundation under award numbers 1547611, 2311206, 2311207, 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.