By the Numbers

Unless otherwise noted, the data below is from the calendar year 2025 (January 2025 through December 2025).

Client Communities

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7,715

Individual Accounts

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59%

Students

35%

Faculty/Staff

6%

Other

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1,655

Organizations

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309

Courses

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208

Trainees

OSC’s Impact

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373 million+

Core Hours Consumed

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3.8 million+

GPU Hours Consumed

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94.1%

of Jobs Started Within 30 Minutes

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99.5%

Service Availability

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36.8 PB

Total Data Stored

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5.5 PB

Data Transferred

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568

Maintained Software Packages Versions

Client Scholarship

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1,069 Publications

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349 Venues

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5,230 Citations

Client Annual Savings

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$50+ million

Annual Cost Savings
(compared to alternative providers)

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$33.1+ million

Leveraged Capital Investments

115 Ohio Organizations

63 Ohio Academic, 15 Ohio Nonprofit/Government, 20 Industrial, 17 Open OnDemand

Map of Ohio academic institutions using OSC

Usage by Field of Science

42 total fields represented

Pie chart showing usage by field of science

*Usage by Field of Science Details
Natural Sciences (51%)
Chemical Sciences (23%)
Computer Sciences (9%)
Biological Sciences (8%)
Physical Sciences (6%)
General (2%)
Environmental Sciences (2%)
Mathematics (1%)
Engineering and Tech (25%)
Material Engineering (5%)
Chemical Engineering (4%)
Environmental Engineering (4%)
Mechanical Engineering (4%)
General (3%)
Electrical Engineering (2%)
Other (2%)
Medical Engineering (1%)
Medical and Health Sciences (20%)
General (13%)
Other (7%)
Social Sciences (3%)
Econonics and Business (2%)
Other (1%)
Other (1%)

Individual Account Locations

47 States + Washington D.C., Puerto Rico (no AK, MT, SD)

Map of OSC clients

Open OnDemand Sites

100+ countries, 2,100+ organizations

Map of Open OnDemand sites

Overall System Usage in millions of core hours*

Map of Open OnDemand sites

*Overall System Usage Details
Total Time Combined Total (875 M)
Systems
Ascend (252 M)
Cardinal (344 M)
Owens (19 M)
Pitzer (260 M)
Client Usage (368 M)
Commercial (30 M)
Other Ohio Academic (44 M)
The Ohio State University (288 M)
Non-Profit / Government (6 M)
Other Usage (507 M)
Downtimes (4 M)
Unscheduled (87 M)
OSC Internal (9 M)
Available (407 M)

*Core hours: The total number of processor cores used times the hours they are used to complete a job.