Ohio Supercomputer Center

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The Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) is a high performance computing and networking center headquartered in Columbus, Ohio, United States. It was established in 1987 by the Ohio Board of Regents.

The Ohio Supercomputer Center provides supercomputing, networking, research and educational resources to a diverse state and national community, including education, academic research, industry and state government.

2007 marks the 20th anniversary of the Center.

OSC is governed by a board that includes 6 university presidents, the OBoR Chancellor and one industry representative.

Key research at the OSC includes

• Blue Collar Computing
• Computational Chemistry Grid
• Analytics
• Computational Science Engineering Research Applications
• Cyberinfrastructure and Software Development
• Bioinformatics
• Biomedical Sciences and Visualizations Research

Key initiatives at OSC include:

• The Ralph Regula School of Computational Science
• OSCnet
• The Ohio Computational Science Initiative

[edit] External links

• OSC website

• Ohio Supercomputer Center is at coordinates 40°00′00″N 83°02′24″W / 40.000000, -83.040000 (Ohio Supercomputer Center)Coordinates: 40°00′00″N 83°02′24″W / 40.000000, -83.040000 (Ohio Supercomputer Center)