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Summer Institute Projects

The cornerstone of the Ohio Supercomputer Center's Summer Institute is the projects. The students work together in small teams on diverse and challenging research-level projects. Teams are comprised of a project leader (staff member who conceived and designed the project) and three or four students.

The team projects offered vary from year to year. This year's projects included: Molecular Dynamics of the Bird Flu Virus, Network Forensics, Game Programming, the Comet Project (student alumni project) and Wave Motion.

Students do a vast amount of work in a short period of time to finish their projects. It is a crash course in time management. First, they learn UNIX, the operating system of the computers they used. Then they learn a programming language and the software needed to compute their projects. Students are required to do their own work from code implementation to final presentations. The ability to develop algorithms and an understanding of the project's science/engineering basis are needed. Finally, the students make a video animation displaying their simulation data -- which is the ultimate goal of each project. Groups present their findings and animations to family members, OSC staff, and guests attending the SI Closing Ceremonies.