Press Releases

OSC researcher wins grant to build digital bridge with Brazil
Ohio State University and Sao Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) selects the networking infrastructure project as one of its first 24 awardees

Marcio Faerman, a scientific research manager at the Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC), recently received a $10,000 grant from a joint partnership between The Ohio State University and the Sao Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP).

Faerman’s research, one of 24 projects awarded under this new program, focuses on the beginning stages of building a digital bridge for research collaboration between OSU and the Sao Paulo campuses. Ohio State and FAPESP are each contributing $700,000 to begin the five-year program to support research and innovation.

OSC engineer wins grant to attend international conference
SC Broader Engagement Program seeks to engage underrepresented groups

Patricia Carey, a senior systems developer and engineer at The Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC), has received a grant to fund her travel to SC13, the annual conference of the international supercomputing community, and her participation in the conference’s weeklong technical program.

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OSC hosts first meeting of the MVAPICH Users Group
Network-Based Computing Research Group created HPC communications library

The Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) hosted the first meeting of the MVAPICH Users Group, a broad array of users, system administrators, researchers, engineers and students who share an interest in the MVAPICH open-source library of communications standards used internally by many high performance computing (HPC) systems.

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OSC OnDemand gives computational researchers innovative web interface to HPC systems
Ohio Supercomputer Center engineers present application at XSEDE13

Engineers from the Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) have developed an innovative access mechanism that is helping researchers to bridge the chasm between the convenience of a web interface and the complexity of high performance computing systems.

Middle-school girls leverage cutting-edge technology to conduct real-world environmental research projects
Ohio Supercomputer Center hosts 14th annual Young Women’s Summer Institute

Fifteen middle school girls from around the state will be attending the Ohio Supercomputer Center’s 14th annual Young Women’s Summer Institute at The Ohio State University on July 7-13, 2013.

These academically gifted young women will investigate environmental watershed issues within the state, while exploring career opportunities in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields.

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Team enters national US Ignite innovation competition; wins award for best advanced manufacturing app
App focuses on transformative technologies to advance industry, education

A team of academic and business organizations, mostly from Ohio, won an award for the “Best Application for Advanced Manufacturing” at the Next Generation Application Summit.

Students explore technology at Ohio Supercomputer Center’s Summer Institute
Ohio high school students uncover the world of supercomputing

Sixteen high school students from around Ohio will be attending the Ohio Supercomputer Center’s 24th annual Summer Institute (SI) on June 16-28, 2013, at The Ohio State University. These academically gifted students, chosen from 50 applicants, will engage in university-level research while working with some of the nation’s best supercomputers.

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Third Frontier Commission helps fund $6.4 million effort to boost Ohio businesses thru modeling & simulation
Ohio Supercomputer Center, partners to produce advanced ‘manufacturing apps’

Ed Note: The AweSim advanced manufacturing application initiative was referred to as IntelSim
during the grant development process, but is being marketed as AweSim as of October 2013.

Graph for randomly selected electron trajectories using thick cone approach to fast ignition fusion.
Simulations uncover obstacle to harnessing laser-driven fusion
Under realistic conditions, hollow cones fail to guide energetic electrons to fuel

A once-promising approach for using next-generation, ultra-intense lasers to help deliver commercially viable fusion energy has been brought into serious question by new experimental results and first-of-a-kind simulations of laser-plasma interaction.

OSC user, staff member among GLCPC Blue Waters award recipients
The Great Lakes Consortium for Petascale Computation has awarded Ohio State’s Gil Bohrer and OSC’s Karen Tomko with compute time on the NCSA’s Blue Waters supercomputer – one of the most powerful supercomputers in the world.

Great Lakes Consortium for Petascale Computation press release:

The Great Lakes Consortium for Petascale Computation has awarded access to the Blue Waters supercomputer—which is capable of performing quadrillions of calculations every second and of working with quadrillions of bytes of data—to 10 diverse science and engineering projects.

The computing and data capabilities of Blue Waters will assist researchers in addressing questions of biology, nanoelectronics, ecological and economic impacts of climate change, and more.

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