The Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) is a high performance computing and networking center headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, United States (OSC-Columbus) with a division in Springfield, Ohio (OSC-Springfield). It was stablished in 1987 by the Ohio Board of Regents. OSC provides scientific computing, networking and information technology resources statewide and nationwide for education, academic research, industry and government. The first network access was provided in 1987 to a Cray supercomputer. The OSC is governed by a board that includes 6 university presidents, the OBoR Chancellor and one industry representative. Key research at the OSC includes
- Program for Computational Reactive Mechanics
- Blue Collar Computing
- Computational Chemistry Grid
- High-Performance Networks and File Systems
- Networking
- Homeland Security and Defense Research
- Bioinformatics
- Biomedical Applications Research
Key initiatives at OSC include:
- The Ralph Regula School of Computational Science
- The Ohio Supercomputer Network
- The Ohio Computational Science Initiative
External links
- Ohio Supercomputer Center is at coordinates Coordinates:
