The Open Science Framework (OSF) [1] [2] is a tool that promotes open, centralized workflows by enabling capture of different aspects and products of the research lifecycle, including developing a research idea, designing a study, storing and analyzing collected data, and writing and publishing reports or papers. It is developed and maintained by the Center for Open Science (COS), a nonprofit organization founded in 2013 that conducts research into scientific practice, builds and supports scientific research communities, and develops research tools and infrastructure to enable managing and archiving research. As an organization, the COS encourages openness, integrity, and reproducibility in research across scientific disciplines. The OSF supports a variety of tools and services to assist in the research process. This review focuses primarily on the core functionality of the OSF, with brief descriptions of some of the other existing tools and services.
The HPC cluster maintained at CWRU is of modest size in comparison with other HPC/ supercomputer resources and commercial providers. While our resource serves well for many research uses, it is not of adequate size to handle larger computational tasks, burstable high-performance computing (BHPC), that may require several hundred or several thousand simultaneous processors. So, the current on-premise HPC resource has been augmented by providing knowledge and educational training on resources that are available commercially or through supercomputing centers.