By the Numbers

Unless otherwise noted, the data below is from the calendar year 2023 (January 2023 through December 2023). 

Client Communities

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9,725

Individual Accounts

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61%

Students

33%

Faculty/Staff

6%

Other

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2,345

Organizations

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218

Courses

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701

Trainees

OSC’s Impact

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290.5 million+

cluster CPU core hours

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1.8 million+

GPU hours

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92%

jobs started within 30 minutes

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99.6%

availability

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26 PB

data stored on disk

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3 PB

data transferred

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1,667

software packages

Client Scholarship

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1,102 publications

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370 venues

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7,672 citations

Client Annual Savings

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$7.5+ million

Ohio Higher Ed

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$1.5+ million

Non-academic

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$24.6+ million

value of currently operative equipment

136 Ohio Organizations

65 academic, 38 industrial, 24 nonprofit/government, 9 Open OnDemand.

Map of Ohio academic institutions using OSC

Usage by Field of Science

45 total fields represented

Pie chart showing usage by field of science
*Usage by Field of Science Details
Natural Sciences (58%)
Chemical Sciences (23%)
Biological Sciences (19%)
Computer Sciences (6%)
Physical Sciences (5%)
Environmental Sciences (3%)
General (1%)
Other (1%)
Engineering and Tech (37%)
Materials Engineering (8%)
Mechanical Engineering (8%)
General (7%)
Environmental Engineering (7%)
Other (5%)
Medical Engineering (1%)
Electrical Engineering (1%)
Civil Engineering (1%)
Medical and Health Sciences (3%)
Social Sciences (2%)

Individual Account Locations

50 states + Washington D.C. + Puerto Rico

Map of OSC clients, many in Ohio, but also scattered across nearly every region of the United States

Open OnDemand Sites

95 countries, 1,646 organizations

Map of locations using Open OnDemand, scattered across the world

Overall System Usage in millions of core hours*

Chart of overall system usage
*Overall System Usage Details
Total Time
Combined Total (535 M)
Systems
Ascend (20 M)
Owens (260 M)
Pitzer (255 M)
Type of Usage
Client Usage (289 M)
  • Commercial (31 M)
  • Other Ohio Academic (36 M)
  • Ohio State University (220 M)
  • Non-Profit/Government (2 M)
Other Usage (246 M)
  • Downtimes (2 M)
  • Unscheduled (53 M)
  • OSC Internal (4 M)
  • Available (187 M)

*Core hours: The total number of processor cores used times the hours they are used to complete a job.