Blue Collar Computing
Ohio Supercomputer Center, Sciences Computer Consultants forge alliance to expand offerings to international clients
(June 29, 2010) – The Ohio Supercomputer Center in Columbus, Ohio, and Sciences Computers Consultants, in Saint-Etienne, France, have signed an intercontinental agreement that will expand SCC’s numerical simulation services to companies across the ocean and stateside. More...
Supercomputing organizations sign strategic agreement to collaborate on extending resources to business, industry
(Nov. 17, 2009) - Two well-respected technology organizations, located on opposite sides of the Earth, are joining forces to boost the economic competitiveness of their industrial client-partners by offering enhanced combinations of high performance computational hardware, software, training and expertise. More...
Ohio Supercomputer Center and Nimbis Services to offer e-commerce portal to industry
November 5, 2009 - Officials from the Ohio Supercomputer Center and Nimbis Services unveiled an e-commerce service that allows companies to easily purchase OSC's Blue Collar Computing computational and expertise resources via Nimbis' web portal packages. More...
Darkstrand and Ohio Supercomputer Center join forces for corporate supercomputing access
June 2, 2009 – 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. More...
U.S. Representative announces metrology defense center of excellence funding for OSC, YSU, and partners
February 20, 2009 – U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan announced today a $1.6 million federal direct appropriation to establish a National Defense Center of Excellence in Industrial Metrology and 3D Imaging headquartered at Youngstown State University. More...
OSC, partners receive portion of multi-million dollar Defense contract to provide high performance computing solutions for DoD suppliers
November 19, 2008 - In collaboration with the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute, who was awarded a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) contract, the Ohio Supercomputer Center will help demonstrate the benefits of high performance computing, defense-critical modeling and simulation solutions for the Department of Defense supply chain. More...
Ohio Supercomputer Center and NIMBIS to collaborate to fill computation gap within company supply chains
September 22, 2008 – Ohio Supercomputer Center officials today announced that the Center has entered into an agreement with Nimbis Services Inc. to connect a regional industry supply chains to OSC’s Blue Collar Computing™ computational and expertise resources. More...
Ohio Supercomputer Center collaborates with YSU, Fireline TCON in new Center for Excellence in Advanced Materials Analyses
July 8, 2008 – The Ohio Third Frontier Commission has awarded Youngstown State University with a $2.1 million grant to establish a Center for Excellence in Advanced Materials Analyses in collaboration with Fireline TCON Inc. and the Ohio Supercomputer Center. More...
How Toledo can compete and succeed in a global economy
Toledo Blade
March 6, 2008 - I suppose I was like most kids growing up in Toledo in the 1970s. I was more focused on participating in sports and doing my schoolwork - probably in that order - than on the business environment. But my memories of childhood in Toledo all include the backdrop of a vibrant economy. More...
Retooling for the Future in Ohio
The Washington Post
March 1, 2008 - Behind the gloomy statistics about Ohio's manufacturing job losses is a real silver lining that is helping small and medium-sized manufacturing companies regain their competitive footing. More...
Ohio Supercomputer Center bolsters ‘innovation foundation’ with launch of new IBM Cluster 1350 supercomputer
January 29, 2008 - With the deployment of the Ohio Supercomputer Center’s new IBM Cluster 1350, the State of Ohio is now home to the 65th fastest supercomputer in the world and the 9th fastest among U.S. academic supercomputer centers. More...
Opportunities emerge for 2 local companies
Vindy.com
January 6, 2008 - Helping new businesses hatch is just part of the plan for the Youngstown Business
Incubator this year. More...
Blue Collar Computing: Overcoming High Performance Computing Barriers
highpercom.blogspot.com/
November 20, 2007 - The two major barriers for companies wanting to use High Performance Computing (HPC) to solve complex problems are the cost of implementation and the difficulty of installing, maintaining, programming and using HPC systems. More...
Stan Ahalt, Executive Director, Ohio Supercomputer Center
OhioMeansBusiness.com
October 19, 2007 - One of the great things about Ohio is there are amazing stories of people who are achieving
outstanding professional and personal success. Stan Ahalt, Executive Director of the Ohio
Supercomputer Center (OSC), has one of those incredible stories. More...
Polymer firms offered tech help
Akron Beacon Journal
September 11, 2007 - Ohio's $49 billion polymer industry also needs to turn to high-powered chips computer, not potato to conduct digital modeling and simulations so it can better compete globally, speakers at a PolymerOhio daylong forum on emerging technology said Tuesday at the University of Akron. More...
Supercomputing for the Masses
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
September 9, 2007 - Pennsylvania's unemployment rate recently saw another increase. Lost and outsourced jobs remain an ongoing problem, especially for those working in the manufacturing sector. There is no simple fix for this problem, but supercomputing might be part of the answer. More...
PolymerOhio, Ohio Supercomputer Center partnership provides economic benefits
Supercomputing Online
September 6, 2007 - Groups co-sponsor September industry forum on improving profitability through productivity: The Ohio Supercomputer Center and PolymerOhio announced a partnership that will make Ohio’s polymer companies more productive and profitable through high performance computing applications. More...
EWI Announces Launch of New E-Weld Predictor Product Offering
September 5, 2007 – EWI today launched a new online weld simulation tool, E-Weld Predictor, offering improved productivity and profitability to its companies. More...
Future looks bright for supercomputers
Washington Technology
September 3, 2007 - The gap is closing between supercomputing and mainstream computing. The consequence will be more powerful planning and decision-making tools for everyday users and new applications that will tap the vast potential of parallel computing. More...
Legislation boosts U.S. manufacturing competitiveness
Reliable Plant
August 10, 2007 - The U.S. manufacturing sector received a boost as it transitions to a globally competitive marketplace under a new Senate bill introduced on August 6. More...
Voinovich-Ryan Legislation Boosts Manufacturing Competitiveness Through Supercomputing
August 6, 2007 -- Federal Funding for Ohio Supercomputer Center’s Blue Collar Computing Initiative Helps Small and Medium Sized Companies Access Needed Technology. More...
The Age of the Supercomputer
BusinessWeek
May 7, 2007 -- Ten years ago, Deep Blue beat a world chess champion. Now supercomputers are poised to move into the business world in a big way. More...
Supercomputing Comes to the Rust Belt
BusinessWeek
April 12, 2007 -- New initiatives are starting to bring the transformative benefits of supercomputer power to small and midsize businesses. More...
Super Saver: The Race Is On To Build A Fast, Global File System For Supercomputers
Government Computer News
February 5, 2007 -- Save often, especially when you run a supercomputer. For Gary Grider, group leader of Los Alamos National Laboratory’s High Performance Computing Systems Integration Group, saving data is of the highest importance. More...
Computers take on blue-collar tasks
The Columbus Dispatch
January 12, 2007 -- Partnership aims to use powerful machines to do work that currently takes a lot of time and money. More...
Blue Collar Computing resources offered for welding simulations
Columbus Business First
November 17, 2006 -- The Ohio Supercomputer Center and the Edison Welding Institute are working in a program to provide remote access to a state-backed organization's high-performance computing systems and software to more than 200 Edison Welding-member companies in the welding and materials joining industries. More...
Blue Collar Computing Receives HPCwire 2006 Readers’ Choice Award
The Blue Collar Computing program at the Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) today received the prestigious HPCwire 2006 Readers’ Choice Award for “Best Collaboration Between Government and Industry.” HPCwire is considered the leading source for global news and information covering the ecosystem of high productivity computing. More...
Viewpoint - Supercomputing: The Next Industrial Revolution
IndustryWeek
September 13, 2006 -- Across the country small- and medium-sized companies in automotives, manufacturing and other assembly line industries are suffering tough economic times due to ever increasing global market competition. More...
New Blue Collar Bill Seeks Federal Funds So Small Businesses Can Compute
August 12, 2006 -- Now even the most down home mom and pop businesses may have access to supercomputers without worrying about the cost. More...
Supercomputers may be key to stay ahead
Physorg.com
July 22, 2006 -- The technology used in aerospace engineering and weather forecasting is being used these days to produce better laundry-detergent bottles and animated movies too, thanks to high-performance computing. More...
Bill provides supercomputer access to small businesses
The Columbus Dispatch
June 25, 2006 -- Small businesses in Ohio and elsewhere would have greater access to so-called supercomputers under legislation introduced last week by Sen. Mike DeWine, R-Ohio. More...
Senators DeWine, Kohl Introduce Blue Collar Computing Bill, an OSC Initiative, to Support Businesses, Manufacturers
June 16, 2006 – Senator Mike DeWine (R-OH) and Senator Herb Kohl (D-WI) have introduced the “Blue Collar Computing and Business Assistance Act of 2006,” an initiative championed by the Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) to make high performance computing (HPC) resources available to small businesses and manufacturers. More..
Blue Collar Computing: HPC for the Rest of Us
ClusterMonkey
January 31, 2006 -- From an industrial perspective, HPC seems to be a "look, but don't touch" technology. While there is an acknowledged need for HPC by many industrial sectors, the HPC market has traditionally focused on the grand challenge or the "heroic" computing needs of the National Labs and Computing centers. Stan Ahalt, Executive Director of The Ohio Supercomputer Center, and Kathryn L. Kelley believe a focus on Blue Collar™ Computing can help revitalize industrial innovation and usher in a new era of "high touch" HPC. More...
Supercomputing Pushes Toward the Corporate IT Mainstream
Computerworld
November 21, 2005 -- Loren Miller, director of IT research, development and engineering at The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., thinks he can easily make the case for wider corporate use of supercomputing technology.
Simulations made possible by supercomputing have enabled Goodyear to gradually reduce the amount of money it spends on building physical tire prototypes, from 40% of its total research and development budget to just 15%, Miller said last week. The Akron, Ohio-based company is using the money it saves to fund more research work. More...
Blue-Collar Computing: HPC for the Rest of Us
ClusterWorld
November, 2004 -- Commercial forces influence all technologies. The HPC market, which has gone through many changes in recent years, is no exception. Indeed, the first do-it-yourself white box clusters look quite a bit different than the current blade systems available today. More...
High and Dry at High End?
EETIMES
November, 2004 -- There was plenty to cheer about at Supercomputing 2004 here last week, as both custom and off-the-shelf designs took major steps forward in performance and market reach. More...
Blue Collar Computing Concept Sparks Imagination...
Ohio Supercomputer Center
November 2004 -- Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) Executive Director Stan Ahalt’s Blue Collar Computing™ speech on high performance computing (HPC) for industry and research applications received enthusiastic support at the SC2004 conference in Pittsburgh, Pa., last week. More...
Factors Threaten Technology's Amazing Potential
Pittsburgh Live.com
November 11, 2004 -- Supercomputers are bringing humanity to the brink of amazing discoveries -- from modeling global warming to simulating the functions of proteins within the human body. More... |
