Press Releases

Co-director of summer program for young girls travels extensively to promote STEM education programs

Columbus, Ohio _ Feb.

Young Women’s Summer Institute accepting applications for 2009

Columbus, Ohio – Feb. 17, 2009 – Twenty years of toiling on high performance computing initiatives and in software engineering hasn’t dampened the enthusiasm for a career working in math and science for Leslie Southern at the Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC).

Father of digital art, computer animation to give interactive presentation, "Beyond Boundaries"

OSU alumnus Csuri featured in Ralph Regula School lecture series

Secure videoconferencing provides key to enhancing education, research collaboration, savings

Some technologists see a day in the not-so-distant future when advances in videoconferencing will allow the quickly maturing technology to greatly enhance distance education, boost research collaboration and reduce travel and meeting costs.

OARnet study seeks balance of security, quality in videoconferencing

Columbus, Ohio — February 5, 2009 — Some technologists see a day in the not-so-distant future when advances in videoconferencing will allow the quickly maturing technology to greatly enhance distance education, boost research collaboration and reduce travel and meeting costs.

Obama inauguration lures millions to watch online video, generates record traffic over Ohio's high-speed network

Ohio computer users helped make President Barack ObamaÕs inauguration the most watched streaming video event in the InternetÕs history, pushing network traffic over the stateÕs fiber-optic backbone to more than 8.

Columbus, Ohio — February 4, 2009 — Ohio computer users helped make President Barack Obama’s inauguration the most watched streaming video event in the Internet’s history, pushing network traffic over the state’s fiber-optic backbone to more than 8.1 gigabits – or 8.1 billion bits of digital information – per second.

University System of Ohio Enters IT Licensing Agreement

COLUMBUS _ January 9, 2009 _ Ohio Board of Regents Chancellor Eric D.

Leveraging group purchasing power to lower technology costs can save $130 million, minimize energy consumption

OSC, partners receive portion of multi-million dollar Defense contract, to provide high performance computing solutions for DoD suppliers

Columbus, Ohio - Nov.

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency awards USC-led team $3.6M

Ohio Supercomputer Center executive director appointed chair of Coalition for Academic Scientific Computation

Austin, Texas - Nov.

Austin, Texas - Nov. 18, 2008 - Today, the Coalition for Academic Scientific Computation (CASC) appointed Stanley C. Ahalt, Ph.D., executive director of the Ohio Supercomputer Center, to serve as Chair of the organization for the next year.

OSC's Ralph Regula School of Computational Science receives prestigious award for innovative minor program

Columbus, Ohio Ñ Nov.

Krell Institute makes presentation at SC08 conference in Texas

Columbus, Ohio — Nov. 18, 2008 — The Krell Institute today presented the 2008 Undergraduate Computational Engineering and Sciences award to Steven I. Gordon and the Ralph Regula School of Computational Science, an initiative of the Ohio Supercomputer Center, for its innovative baccalaureate minor program.

Annual publication showcases the "Super" at the Ohio Supercomputer Center

Want to know what makes the Ohio Supercomputer Center ÒSuperÓ? Spend 20 minutes with the 2008 Research Report, and youÕll get more than a glimmer of the breadth of OSCÕs impact on academic and industry researchers.

Learn more about OSC’s people, researchers, research, partners, impact, and yes - even its supercomputers

Columbus, Ohio – November 17, 2008 - Want to know what makes the Ohio Supercomputer Center “Super”? Spend 20 minutes with the 2008 Research Report, and you’ll get more than a glimmer of the breadth of OSC’s impact on academic and industry researchers.

Cyberinfrastructure development improves remote use of scientific instruments; expands research, education opportunities

OhioÕs academic and industrial researchers now can share some of the stateÕs most valuable and expensive scientific instruments via the Internet, thanks to cyberinfrastructure tools developed by engineers and researchers…

Columbus, Ohio – November 14, 2008 - Ohio’s academic and industrial researchers now can share some of the state’s most valuable and expensive scientific instruments via the Internet, thanks to cyberinfrastructure tools developed by engineers and researchers at the Ohio Supercomputer Center.