Developed by UCLA, SDSC, and TACC
Where OneSciencePlace (OSP) is being used today, where it is being deployed now, technical validation work on legacy gateways, and hands-on use by the research computing community.
Active Deployment
Quakeworx — open-access seismic research gateway
A browser-based gateway delivering simulation tools and interactive notebooks to the seismology community, federating multiple national HPC resources under one interface.
Built on OneSciencePlace in collaboration with the Statewide California Earthquake Center (SCEC). PIs: Yehuda Ben-Zion (former SCEC Director), Ahmed Elbanna (SCEC Director, formerly at UIUC), Alice Gabriel (SIO/UCSD), and Amit Chourasia (UCLA, formerly at SDSC/UCSD)
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Researchers in early-user phase
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Curated simulation and analysis applications
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ACCESS HPC systems integrated (Expanse, Stampede3, Delta)
The challenge
A robust, sustainable gateway that could federate access across multiple national HPC centers — without the cost and ongoing burden of custom development.
How OneSciencePlace fits
Quakeworx was built on OSP's composable framework and integrated multiple national HPC centers through the compute integration layer. The no-code form builder created a unified interface for researchers, removing the need for custom front-end development. App curation, job tracking, and publishing all use OSP capabilities directly.
Outcome
A scalable, maintainable gateway that federates computational access across national resources from day one — with a consistent user experience and minimal ongoing engineering overhead.
OneSciencePlace has enabled Quakeworx to deliver over twenty state-of-the-art earthquake simulation and analysis tools to the seismology community through a single browser interface — eliminating the need to build, maintain, and manage custom cyberinfrastructure from scratch.
— Yehuda Ben-Zion, Lead PI, Quakeworx · former SCEC Director
Community engagement — January 2025 workshop
The first Quakeworx workshop was planned for 20 attendees. It drew 162 applications from researchers across 16 countries, with 65 accepted — 92% students or postdocs, 56% women. During the workshop, 84% of participants logged in and ran more than 400 HPC jobs. Post-workshop surveys showed 95% planned to use Quakeworx in their future research, and 100% would recommend it to a colleague.
Status
Currently in early-user phase, with planned production launch in Summer 2026. Integrated systems: Expanse (SDSC) in production, Stampede3 (TACC) in beta, Delta (NCSA) incoming, plus two standalone servers.
Further reading
Deployment in Progress
UCLA Hoffman2 HPC Portal
A campus-wide HPC portal serving thousands of researchers across UCLA.
The challenge
Simplify and standardize access to UCLA's primary shared HPC cluster for users ranging from experienced computational scientists to first-time HPC users — while maintaining fine-grained access control across departments and projects.
How OneSciencePlace fits
OSP is being deployed as the official web-based portal to the Hoffman2 cluster. The compute integration layer manages job submission, and role-based access control provides per-tenant administration across departments and research groups.
Expected outcome
An App Catalog interface for complex HPC applications that lowers the barrier to entry for new users and broadens the return on campus cyberinfrastructure investment.
Technical Validation
CIPRES migration study
A migration of one of the most widely used phylogenetics gateways onto OneSciencePlace, undertaken to validate that complex legacy gateway functionality can move onto a managed platform.
What was tested
The migration exercised OSP's flexible input widgets against real-world complexity, including phylogenetic applications with up to 200 parameters and conditional input logic. More than 30 of CIPRES's 40 applications were ported to OSP's no-code application framework, along with representative user interface patterns.
What it demonstrated
OSP's no-code form builder and compute integration can absorb the kind of complex, accumulated application logic that makes legacy gateways expensive to maintain — without rewriting the underlying scientific tools. The validation established a reusable migration pattern for other gateways facing similar sustainability pressures.
Status
CIPRES is winding down for reasons unrelated to the migration work, and the OSP-hosted version was not taken to production. The technical outcomes remain directly applicable to active migration discussions with other legacy gateway communities.
Community Use
Science Gateways Conference tutorials — 2024 and 2025
Two years running. Eighty-five participants used OneSciencePlace hands-on at the Science Gateways Conference, deploying applications, designing custom interfaces with the no-code builder, and creating Open Access publications — each in a single 150-minute session.
What participants did
Within the session, participants deployed provided applications, configured launch forms with the no-code builder, ran jobs, and created Open Access publications from their outputs. A few went further, deploying their own Docker container-based apps from scratch — without writing a line of code.
What it demonstrated
OneSciencePlace's no-code application onboarding is accessible to research computing staff with no prior OSP experience. Two years of consistent results suggest the approach is repeatable across audiences.
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