Press Releases

OSC, Nationwide Children's researchers honored for their innovation
OSC's Stredney, Nationwide Children's Wiet receive Health Care Heroes Honorable Mention in Innovation Award

Don Stredney of the Ohio Supercomputer Center and Greg Wiet, MD, of Nationwide Children’s Hospital and the Ohio State University Medical Center recently received from Columbus Business First a Health Care Heroes Honorable Mention in Innovation Award for their Virtual Temporal Bone surgery simulation project.

The business journal’s annual awards program honors those who have made an impact on health care in the community through their concern for patients, research and inventions, management skills, innovative programs for employees and service to the poor and uninsured.

Science, engineering students developing HPC programming skills through Great Lakes Consortium Virtual School summer course
Ohio Supercomputer Center hosts 40+ researchers from Ohio, nearby states

Graduate students – from various disciplines and institutions across the country – are improving their multi-core programming skills this week during a summer school course offered by the Great Lakes Consortium’s Virtual School of Computational Science and Engineering.

Ahalt to leave OSC to direct North Carolina's RENCI
Gordon, Krishnamurthy named interim co-directors of the Ohio Supercomputer Center

Stanley C. Ahalt, Ph.D., executive director of the Ohio Supercomputer Center, has accepted an appointment as director of the Renaissance Computing Institute and professor of computer science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Herbert Wins Presidential Award
Mix of science and computing reveals what happens when molecules absorb light

John M. Herbert has received the highest award that a beginning researcher can receive in the United States.

The Ohio State University chemist is among 100 scientists and engineers honored with the 2009 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). He will receive his award in a White House ceremony later this fall.

Tenth annual Young Women's Summer Institute to immerse participants in science, technology
Innovative summer experience for middle school girls announces participants chosen for competitive program

The Ohio Supercomputer Center today announced the names of 15 elementary and middle school girls from six Ohio counties competitively chosen to attend the 2009 Young Women’s Summer Institute.

Recent survey identifies gaps in educational resources needed to train America's future computational scientists
Report cites need for materials to take advantage of petascale computing

A recent survey of American researchers, software developers, educators and students reveals that a significant national effort is needed to fill gaps in education and training materials needed to prepare tomorrow’s computational scientists to take advantage of high performance supercomputers.

The Report on High Performance Computing Training and Education Survey provides a baseline assessment of the skills and concepts required by American computational scientists tackling challenging research problems with high performance computing (HPC) technology.

Darkstrand and Ohio Supercomputer Center join forces for corporate supercomputing access
OSC Brings Expertise and Computing Power to Darkstrand Network to Solve Advanced Bioscience and Manufacturing Innovations

Darkstrand, a pioneer in corporate high-speed connectivity bridging research and commercialization, today announced a strategic alliance with the Ohio Supercomputer Center in Columbus with the mutual objective of bringing the research and development capabilities of the Center to the national commercial marketplace.

Ohio researcher tracks movement of H1N1 influenza virus with the aid of supercomputer, mapping software
OSU project adapts Supramap program from earlier study of avian influenza

An Ohio State University Medical Center biomedical informatics researcher is tapping the power of the Ohio Supercomputer Center to monitor the spread of the H1N1 influenza virus.

OARnet experts to present at Internet2 Spring Member Meeting
Shah, Schopis, Dixon on the slate for the meeting in Virginia

Staff members of the Ohio Academic Resources Network (OARnet) are sharing their valuable expertise with participants at the Internet2 Spring Member Meeting, April 27-29, 2009, in Arlington, Va.

K-State professor shares research to develop better Internet search tools that identify emerging trends

Next-generation Internet search techniques will greatly improve the ability to sift through the massive, ever-changing information posted to the Web – and enable people to better use this information for identifying critical issues such as homeland security concerns or imminent disease outbreaks, said William H. Hsu, Ph.D., an associate professor of computer and information sciences and director of the Laboratory for Knowledge Discovery in Databases at Kansas State University.

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