The Open Storage Network

What is OSN?

OSN is a distributed data storage service providing petabytes of shared, easily accessible storage to support active data sharing and transfer between academic institutions, communities and projects, leveraging existing NSF-funded cyberinfrastructure ...

What is our mission?

OSN facilitates scientific and scholarly research by improving data access and the re-use of high-value, high-impact datasets capable of accelerating discovery and generating synergies across new and existing science projects and ...

Science and Research on the OSN

OSN provides value to multiple disciplines, ranging from moving large astronomy datasets to compute resources to datasets geared towards strengthening machine learning research. Our users constitute a varied community of researchers and practitioners.

OSN pods

OSN pods are petabyte-sized distributed storage units with minimal administrative overhead, capable of high-throughput, high-speed large volume data transfers. Pods have been distributed across the country and we are ready to add more.

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