Ohio Supercomputer Center Posts

What to expect from the 27th Summer Institute

By on Monday, June 6, 2016 - 10:00am (updated Monday, June 6, 2016 - 11:35am)

The 27th Summer Institute is less than a week away, meaning 16 high school students from across Ohio are about to descend on the Ohio Supercomputer Center. As we enter the final countdown to the camp, it's the perfect time to let the incoming students know what to expect from the two-week camp. And while we can share with you what to pack and the daily schedule, there are some other things incoming students should definitely know to make the experience smoother and better. 

A chance to discuss affordable HPC and its impact

By on Thursday, June 2, 2016 - 11:00am

Recently, AweSim Director Alan Chalker had the opportunity to sit in on Desktop Engineering's roundtable discussion, "Supercomputing for the Rest of Us." The goal of the roundtable was to discuss the democratization of high performance computing modeling and simulation. It turned out to be an excellent platform to continue to spread the word about how the AweSim program is working to lower the perception and reality of exclusivity to this powerful tool, from which all manufacturers can benefit. 

Interface Lab Blog Series: An outsider's perspective on a virtual world, part 2

By on Friday, May 6, 2016 - 4:16pm

I recently spent an afternoon tinkering around in the Ohio Supercomputer Center’s Interface Lab. What felt to me like a mind-opening trip to a video game playground is actually a hub of innovation and groundbreaking discovery for computer and medical scientists. This second of three installments details the Virtual Temporal Bone project.

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