COSMO: a Research Data Service Platform and Experiences from the BlueTides Project

We present details and experiences related to the COSMO project advanced by the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) and the McWilliams Center for Cosmology at Carnegie Mellon University for the BlueTides Simulation project. The design of COSMO focuses on expediting access to key information, minimizing data transfer, and offering an intuitive user interface and easy-to-use data-sharing tools. COSMO consists of a data-sharing web portal, API tools that enable quick data access and analysis for scientists, and a set of recommendations for scientific data sharing. The BlueTides simulation project, one of the most extensive cosmological hydrodynamic simulations ever performed, provides voluminous scientific data ideal for testing and validating COSMO. Successful experiences include COSMO enabling intuitive and efficient remote data access which resulted in a successful James Webb Telescope proposal to observe the first quasars in the first observing cycle.