The MeerKAT Absorption Line Survey (MALS), is excited to announce that all public data releases, including the calibrated visibility data from Data Release 2 (DR2) – which enabled the detection of nearly a million radio sources – are now mirrored on the Open Science Data Federation (OSDF) in the USA. This significant step greatly expands global researchers' access to MALS's vast dataset to address a wide range of astrophysical and technical issues.
MALS data are processed at IUCAA in India, with the resulting images and spectra made public to foster broader scientific research. The OSDF's global network will open access to vast computing power, available to individual researchers from facilities like the Open Science Grid (OSG), the National Research Platform (NRP) and India’s growing National Supercomputing Mission (NSM) infrastructure. This will enable them to tackle more complex tasks, including correcting subtle imaging artifacts using innovative methods being developed by NRAO’s Algorithm and Research Development Group (ARDG). These efforts are a vital part of the community's preparation to meet the upcoming big data challenges posed by next-generation radio telescopes like the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) and the next generation Very Large Array (ngVLA).