Press Releases

Pitzer Expansion
OSC Deploys $4.3 Million Supercomputer Expansion
OSC'S Pitzer Cluster undergoes expansion, promoting new state-of-the-art features

The Ohio Supercomputer Center’s (OSC) most efficient supercomputer system, the Pitzer Cluster, just received a major upgrade—in the middle of a global pandemic.

Over the summer, the two-year-old, liquid-cooled cluster gained nearly 400 nodes and 20,000 cores, increasing the system to more than 650 nodes and almost 30,000 cores in total. The nine new racks were delivered by a team from Dell EMC who carefully adhered to COVID-19 safety protocols. The OSC staff completed the onsite assembly and testing before making the expanded computing power available to OSC clients.

Pandemic Modeling: COVID-19 Projection Models Equip Ohioans

As citizens around the world first caught wind about the COVID-19 virus, almost no one predicted that it would become an international pandemic with such far-reaching effects. Wasiur KhudaBukhsh, a president’s postdoctoral scholar at the Mathematical Biosciences Institute at The Ohio State University, was no exception.

OSC Deploys 8.6 Petabytes of High-Performance Storage With Help From IBM

The Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC), through a partnership with IBM, has expanded their storage capacity by 8.6 petabytes. This addition almost tripled the Center’s high performance storage capacity, ensuring researchers across Ohio will have access to cutting-edge secure storage options.

Fall SUG conference gathers researchers to the Ohio Supercomputer Center
Jin, Parsons win fall 2019 flash talk and poster competitions.

Academic research provides students and staff alike the ability to pursue ground-breaking discoveries in numerous fields of study. These findings are propelled by Ohio universities’ access to high performance computing (HPC) through the Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC). Many of the state’s researchers gathered at OSC for the biannual Statewide Users Group (SUG) conference on Thursday to share their current research and innovations that have used HPC.

OSC to more than double HPC research storage
IBM ESS technology to provide 8.6 petabytes of software-defined storage

Soon, researchers throughout Ohio and beyond will have access to larger and even more secure storage options when it comes to housing their voluminous and potentially sensitive data.

Katharine Cahill, Ph.D.
Cahill named mentor for NSF XSEDE Campus Champion Fellow
Education specialist to advise Wofford College computer science professor

An Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) staff member will be serving as a mentor to a colleague from Wofford College as they work to boost a federal program aimed at expanding a capable and innovative advanced digital resource workforce across the country.

PEARC19
OSC paper earns honors at research computing conference
Authors focus on challenges of HPC software installation, testing

A paper authored by staff members of the Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) earned best paper honors in the Facilitation of Advanced Research Computing track at the Practice & Experience in Advanced Research Computing Conference (PEARC), being held July 28–Aug. 1 in Chicago.

PEARC19
OSC staff leading programs at PEARC19 conference
PEARC conference series focuses on research computing community

Ohio Supercomputer Center staff members will be attending and presenting at the PEARC19 conference, July 28 – Aug. 1 in Chicago.

Young women exploring STEM careers at Ohio Supercomputer Center
19th Young Women's Summer Institute promotes science, technology among middle-school girls

A dozen Ohio middle-school girls are spending part of their summer at the Ohio Supercomputer Center’s (OSC) 19th annual Young Women’s Summer Institute (YWSI), July 14-20 at The Ohio State University.

YWSI participants investigate complex science problems while discovering career opportunities in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields.

Students attending OSC’s Summer Institute will solve problems with supercomputers

Eighteen Ohio high school students will be spending two weeks this summer at the Ohio Supercomputer Center’s 30th annual Summer Institute, June 16-28 at The Ohio State University. The students will investigate complex science and engineering problems while discovering career opportunities in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).

Pages