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title: "What is CyVerse?"
description: "CyVerse's cloud cyberinfrastructure, open source software, and people: the Data Store, Discovery Environment, cloud services, funding, and how to cite it."
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- CyVerse
- Overview
- Getting Started
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# What is CyVerse?
[CyVerse](https://cyverse.org){target=_blank} is a powerful **cloud infrastructure**, custom **open source software**, and the **_people_** who support its operations.
CyVerse is owned by The Arizona Board of Regents and is operated primarily at The University of Arizona, with partners [Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC)](https://tacc.utexas.edu){target=_blank} at University of Texas, Austin, [Cold Spring Harbor Labs (CSHL)](https://www.cshl.edu){target=_blank} in Long Island, New York, and [Indiana University (Jetstream 2 Cloud)](https://jetstream-cloud.org){target=_blank} in Bloomington, Indiana.
CyVerse leverages public computing resources across the United States through partnerships with the National Science Foundation's [ACCESS-CI](https://access-ci.org){target=_blank} program, connected over the [Internet2](https://internet2.edu){target=_blank}
CyVerse was originally funded by the USA National Science Foundation in 2008 to handle huge datasets and complex analyses for the USA Plant Sciences community. Today, we have 16 years of experience working with tens of thousands of scientific researchers across Astronomy, Life, Earth, Health, Defense, and Space Sciences from over 160 countries.
To date, CyVerse has directly enabled over $280,000,000 in externally funded research projects in the United States, and has been cited in over 1,400 peer-reviewed research articles as the computational and data management platform which enabled the science.
Our current cyberinfrastructure platform includes:
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- [![][data]{width=35}](https://unm-carc.github.io/cyverse/data-store/overview/){target=_blank} [Data Management](https://unm-carc.github.io/cyverse/data-store/overview/){target=_blank}
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:octicons-arrow-right-24: 5GB free data storage for all basic users,
:octicons-arrow-right-24: Multi-petabyte data hosting available for [Powered By](https://unm-carc.github.io/cyverse/getting-started/powered-by/) services, sponsored projects and proposed research ([contact us](https://user.cyverse.org/requests/2){target=_blank}).
:octicons-arrow-right-24: Managed File Transfers (MFT) move your data securely with end-to-end encryption
:octicons-arrow-right-24: Store data privately, share it with your collaborators, or make it public
:octicons-arrow-right-24: Publish your data with DataCite DOI from Lyrasis
- [![][de]{width=35}](https://unm-carc.github.io/cyverse/discovery-environment/overview/){target=_blank} [Discovery Environment](https://unm-carc.github.io/cyverse/discovery-environment/overview/){target=_blank}
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:octicons-arrow-right-24: An interactive browser-based [Data Science Workbench](https://unm-carc.github.io/cyverse/discovery-environment/using-apps/){target=_blank}
:octicons-arrow-right-24: Launch multi-core, large memory, and GPU based analyses
:octicons-arrow-right-24: Leverage major open source scientific research software applications
:octicons-arrow-right-24: Bring Your Own Software using Docker Containers
:octicons-arrow-right-24: Share your data and analyses privately and securely with collaborators
:octicons-arrow-right-24: Create and curate reproducible research objects
- [:material-cloud-tags:{ .lg .middle } Cloud Native Services](https://unm-carc.github.io/cyverse/cloud/overview/){target=_blank}
:octicons-arrow-right-24: Cloud Automation & Continuous Analysis Orchestration [CACAO](https://unm-carc.github.io/cyverse/cloud/cacao/){target=_blank} enabling cloud automation & continuous analysis orchestration on multi-cloud
:octicons-arrow-right-24: Uses templates to provision and launch scalable resources to commercial or public cloud resource providers
:octicons-arrow-right-24: Launch :simple-jupyter: Project Jupyter Hubs for tens to thousands of users in three clicks.
:octicons-arrow-right-24: Launch Open Source LLM frameworks (Ollama, OpenWebUI, DeepSeek, etc) with vector databases (Weaviate, Pinecone, etc) in secure environments and work with your data privately and securely
:octicons-arrow-right-24: [:material-gitlab: https://gitlab.com/cyverse/cacao](https://gitlab.com/cyverse/cacao){target=_blank}
[![][ball]{width=25}](https://cyverse.org/ecp){target=_blank} [Powered by](https://cyverse.org/ecp){target=_blank} - Work with our experienced data scientists and software engineers to scale your algorithms and data onto cloud and high performance compute. [Contact Us](https://user.cyverse.org/requests/3){target=_blank} if you are interested in starting an external collaborative partnership.
[![][ball]{width=25}](https://cyverse.org/teach){target=_blank} [Education and Training](https://cyverse.org/teach){target=_blank} - learn how to use containers, workflows, and public research cyberinfrastructure from our professional trainers.
[![][ball]{width=25}](https://user.cyverse.org/requests/8){target=_blank} [Cloud Resources](https://user.cyverse.org/requests/8){target=_blank} for running your class or workshop in the cloud.
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**Funding and Citations:**
CyVerse is funded entirely by the National Science Foundation [{width="25"}](https://nsf.gov) under Award Numbers:
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Please cite CyVerse appropriately when you make use of our resources, see [CyVerse citation policy](https://cyverse.org/policies/cite-cyverse){target=_blank}.
Adapted from [CyVerse Learning Materials](https://github.com/CyVerse-learning-materials/learning-materials-home/blob/b7392d21be4fd6a67d051847f98c81a18e058a12/docs/home/what_is_cyverse.md){target=_blank} (last source update 2025-03-16), CC BY 4.0. Spotted a problem? [Open an issue](https://github.com/UNM-CARC/cyverse/issues){target=_blank}.