Contact Information

1224 Kinnear Road, Columbus, OH 43212 Main Phone: (614) 292-9248Fax: (614) 688-3184E-mail: oschelp@osc.eduInternet: www.osc.eduTwitter: @oscFacebook: The Ohio Supercomputer CenterYouTube: www.youtube.com/oscnewmedia

Ashok Krishnamurthy, Ph.D.OSC Interim Co-Executive Director, OSCOSC Senior Director, Research (614) 688-4803 • ashok@osc.edu

Steven Gordon, Ph.D.OSC Interim Co-Executive Director, OSCOSC Senior Director of Education & Client SupportDirector, Ralph Regula School of Computational Science(614) 292-4132 • sgordon@osc.edu

Kevin WohleverOSC Director of Supercomputing Operations (614) 247-2061 • kevin@osc.edu

Dwayne SattlerOH-TECH Associate Vice President for Policy(614) 292-2207 • sattler.29@osu.edu

Kathryn KelleyOH-TECH Senior Director of Outreach(614) 292-6067 • kkelley@osc.edu

Technical Support for Computational Resources(800) 686-6472 or (614) 292-1800 • oschelp@osc.edu

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The Ohio Supercomputer Center is a member of the Ohio Technology Consortium of the Ohio Board of Regents.

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A Vision of Transformation

A Vision for OSCThe broad vision laid out for the future of OSC is to extend and enhance the center’s impact on research and education at Ohio’s colleges and universities, to improve the competitive position of the state’s businesses and industry in the global marketplace and to provide the training and workforce development in the STEM disciplines necessary for a technically proficient workforce. The ultimate goal is to contribute to improving the lives of Ohio citizens by retaining and creating high-quality jobs and to attract the best and brightest minds to Ohio’s universities.

National EminenceOSC is funded by the Ohio Board of Regents and currently is situated at The Ohio State University (OSU), which also serves as the center’s fiscal and human resources manager. OSU researchers represent the largest user-organization of OSC resources, as well as an important partner and collaborator. The location at OSU has helped OSC recruit an interdisciplinary team of highly qualified staff, undergraduate, graduate and post-doctoral students with expertise in both computation and a variety of science and engineering disciplines. OSC’s current setting in Columbus has the advantage of a central location at a reasonable distance from all areas of the state and country. These conditions, with the center’s long-standing reputation for collaborations with all of the higher education institutions in the state, positions this vital resource to achieve and sustain national eminence as an academic and industrial high performance computing center.

Economic DevelopmentOhio’s historic investment in the human and physical capital embodied in OSC has positioned the center to energize economic development efforts throughout the state. With additional, continued support, OSC will serve Ohio and lead the nation in the areas of research, industrial engagement and workforce development, all crucial endeavors toward economic prosperity in the years ahead.

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Helping secure economic prosperity through technological leadership

Ohio Supercomputer Center

IBM 1350 AMD Opteron Cluster

“Our business is welding technology, not operating computers … We can enhance competitiveness of manufacturing in the U.S. with tools like this (E-Weld Predictor Portal).”

– Henry Cialone, President and CEO, Edison Welding Institute

“The Ralph Regula School of Computational Science introduces innovative computational tools to the next generation of scientific researchers.”

– Steven Gordon, Ph.D., Interim Co-Executive Director, Ohio Supercomputer Center

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Innovation & DiscoveryMuch of Ohio’s broad research community depends on the advanced computational resources and expertise of the Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) to achieve its myriad scientific discoveries and innovations. Biosciences, advanced materials and energy/environment are key areas of research where Ohio is especially well positioned to become a world leader in the novel application of computational science. OSC provides powerful computational resources for other areas of research as well.

BiosciencesBioscience researchers are striving to understand the workings of biological systems at the cellular and molecular level, their relationships to genetics and the impacts on the epidemiology, cause and treatment of disease. Ohio has a strong track record and is considered a major participant in the health care industry. OSC plays an important role in positioning Ohio as the leader in healthcare delivery and research by providing the computational muscle, storage resources and intuitive interfaces to powerful computational software.

Advanced MaterialsThe search for new materials for a variety of industrial and medical applications requires modeling at the molecular and nanoscale levels in order to accurately predict the macroscopic behavior. Here again, Ohio has a community of successful university and industry researchers who require HPC to run their simulations at the scale and detail necessary for the discovery of important new materials and processes. OSC offers modeling and simulation expertise, software development, and the hardware and storage required to address these challenging problems. For example, high resolution and three-dimensional imaging of materials requires immense storage and analysis capabilities similar to that needed for biomedical imaging.

Energy & the EnvironmentThe solution of complex global energy and environmental sustainability issues will increase demand for modeling and simulation capabilities. OSC is supporting Ohio researchers investigating crucial issues such as new, cost-effective sources of energy; exploitation of satellite data to model flood patterns; large-scale polar climate models synthesis; air flows around immense wind turbines; modeling of multifaceted transportation systems; and collateral threats to endangered species of wildlife from certain conservation practices.

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Industrial EngagementModeling and simulation are competitive tools for many busi-nesses, ranging from consumer-goods manufacturers to insurance and financial-services providers. Today, many of Ohio’s largest companies, such as P&G, Goodyear and GE, depend upon high performance computing (HPC) to develop their products in a timely and cost-effective manner.

The Council on Competitiveness, a national think-tank promoting U.S. economic competitiveness, has determined that modeling and simulation also facilitates innovations not previ-ously possible, such as for complex systems in energy, transporta-tion and healthcare and can help lead the way toward the creation of new jobs, industries and markets.

Blue Collar ComputingMore and more smaller businesses recognize the value of using modeling and simulation for virtual product development, but face barriers to its timely adoption. These barriers typically revolve around the need for compu-tational infrastructure and a lack of expertise. OSC launched its Blue Collar Computing Program in 2004 to address this need and is acknowledged as a leader in HPC industrial engagement. OSC experts have assisted a large Ohio automobile manufacturer with the design of parts, partnered with the Edison Welding Institute to create Weld Predictor – an HPC-driven welding simula-tion portal, partnered with PolymerOhio to develop a Polymer Portal – a one-stop site that bundles access to commercial software modeling and simulation services with training in HPC and 3-D modeling and, as part of an effort by the National Digital Manufacturing Consortium (NDEMC) to extend computational fluid dynamics (CFD) capa-bilities to smaller manufacturers, partnered with Procter & Gamble and TotalSim, Inc. to construct Manifold Flow Predictor – a web portal used to predict the properties of manifolds through CFD.

Our experience with Blue Collar Computing can further serve as the hub for enabling widespread adoption of HPC for virtual product development by Ohio industry. We can integrate the infrastructure, software applications and domain-specific academic computational expertise that can advance industrial applications of modeling and simulation and integrate HPC solutions into everyday work. The infrastructure, services and expertise available from OSC will be a major attractor of business and industry to Ohio.

Training & EducationThere is widespread national recognition of the need for educa-tion and training in computational science and HPC. American computational science education is lagging behind other countries in producing the skilled workforce needed at all levels, from the doctoral student developing algorithms for solving the next great scientific questions to the factory manager designing prototypes for the next successful product. These deficiencies have been cited by many national studies, including the President’s Information Technology Advisory Committee, a National Science Founda-tion blue ribbon panel on the future of engineering and the Council on Competitiveness.

Ralph Regula SchoolOSC, through the virtual Ralph Regula School of Computational Science (RRSCS), is a national leader in addressing this pressing need. OSC is expanding efforts into interactive and immersive shared, virtual environments to help build a pipe-line of students to fill the research and industry positions in targeted economic sectors, to train current faculty, students, and industry employees how to take advantage of new technologies and to build Ohio’s reputation as in international leader in computational science education.

In addition to a comprehensive K-12 program that teaches STEM skills and computational science fundamentals at the middle-school and high-school levels, OSC coordinates the statewide computational science currciculum for a baccalau-reate minor and an associate degree concentration.

OSC also developed, in partnership with Ohio universities and community colleges, certificate programs for industry employees. There are two levels of computational science certificate programs developed through NSF funding***. The basic certificate is aimed at those who have little experience with computer modeling and the underlying mathematics and computer programming needed. The advanced certificate focuses on deeper modeling expertise in particular industries or business sectors; this program is connected with follow-on software services and access to large-scale computer systems to carry out analyses. Web portals to complex modeling applications provide a mechanism for both training and use of modeling and simulation in classrooms and by industry.

“Access to robust supercomputing resources enables us to attract the best talent, businesses and research funding to Ohio.”

- Christopher Hadad, Ph.D. Professor of Chemistry The Ohio State University