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OSC features partnerships at international conferencePresentations highlight value of supercomputing to research, industry
Columbus, Ohio (November 9, 2011) –The Ohio Supercomputer Center will showcase its state industry and research partnerships as the center participates in the exhibition and technical programs at SC11, the premier international conference on high performance computing (HPC), networking and storage being held Nov. 12-18, in Seattle, Washington. Each year, OSC highlights the work of faculty, researchers and business partners at its exhibitor booth. Presentations at SC11 will showcase the center’s collaborations in higher education and its signature programs to propel the state’s economic development, Blue Collar ComputingÔ (BCC) and the Ralph Regula School of Computational Science. OSC’s booth partners this year include: The Alliance for High Performance Digital Manufacturing (AHPDM), The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Nimbis Services, The Ohio State University (OSU) Department of Biomedical Informatics and TotalSim. “This conference is an excellent forum at which to share our applications utilizing high performance computing, embrace feedback from the experts in the field and explore the cutting-edge technology showcased by the many vendors in support of our Centers of Emphasis at The Research Institute,” said David Billiter, director of informatics at the Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. It also provides an opportunity to highlight a strategic approach, with the partnership of The Research Institute and OSC, to harmonize domain experts to battle disease.” The following outlines the specific partnerships highlighted in the exhibition booth:
OSC and its partners also have a presence in the SC11 technical program. On Nov. 16, AHPDM partners from the National Center for Manufacturing Sciences, Intel and OSC will present a birds-of-a-feather session that discusses barriers and solutions to the “missing middle,” the 95% of all manufacturers who do not have access to HPC approaches. On Nov. 15, Billiter from The Research Institute will present a Masterworks session on digital pathology’s use to support personalized and translational medicine in the fight against cancer. And Tom Lange of Procter & Gamble, a partner in OSC’s state BCC activities, will focus on the ways in which HPC can be leveraged to fuel consumer product science and engineering processes. In addition, OSC staff will demonstrate the capabilities of the Intel® MIC Architecture across five high performance computing (HPC) application classes at the Intel booth (Booth 2121). Findings in the research fields of computational chemistry, climate and ocean modeling, high-energy physics, image processing and computational material sciences will be jointly presented. OSC’s participation at the SC11 conference also extends to the education program, where Steve Gordon, director of the Ralph Regula School of Computational Science and interim co-executive director of OSC, is one of the leaders. The four-day intensive curriculum is designed to help faculty and high school teachers introduce computational and data-enabled science and engineering (CDESE) techniques, technologies and resources into their classrooms. As education lead for the National Science Foundation Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE), Gordon’s team will also have a presence in their booth (Booth 5415). The XSEDE education team works with universities around the country to formalize computational science education programs and prepare a future workforce that can apply computational modeling to solve challenging science and engineering problems. OSC and its Ohio partners continue to be highly visible participants in the technical programs and exhibits, and are anticipating an active week promoting Ohio research during this annual international supercomputing conference. Featured programs and research are available online at sc11.osc.edu and at the OSC booth (Booth 2713).
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