Ohio Supercomputer Center, The

Description

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. The OSC's goal is to empower clients, partner strategically to develop new research and business opportunities, and lead Ohio's knowledge economy. OSC provides the computational power and storage that scientists need to meet research goals. The hardware and software at OSC has tremendous applications, including bioinformatics, biomedical visualization, deep space observation, or weather modeling. OSC, through OARnet, provides more than 1,850 miles of backbone network to an extended base of clients, from K-12 schools to colleges and universities, academic medical centers to public broadcasting stations. A staff of high performance computing and networking research experts maintain active research programs in HPC and Networking, Homeland Security and Defense, Environmental Sciences, Engineering and Life Sciences. OSC staff teach faculty and student researchers through scientific computing workshops, one-on-one classes, and web-based portal training.