This year, 2014, marks the 25th anniversary of OSC’s Summer Institute program for high school students. Since the Ohio Supercomputer Center grew from academic roots, it was only natural for the center’s founders to develop a program through which they could share with students the fascinating and empowering computational resources they’d assembled. It also was logical that they would create a pipeline to help educate and inspire future scientists and engineers.
The Supercomputer Users Group (SUG) meetings held at the Ohio Supercomputer Center over the last 26+ years have, not surprisingly, been bastions for academics. And, rightly so. In order to give meaningful input to the leadership of the Center, they necessarily discuss complex issues of vital importance to their computational research, involving such technical topics as FLOPS, allocations, algorithms, nodes, software, interconnects, peak performance and more.
These days, as modern philosophers like to say, the only constant is change. With that thought in mind, I decided to document some of the changes currently underway at 1224 Kinnear, but also to take a "deeper dive" into how that particular piece of property had evolved over the last century. What I found was far more interesting that I had suspected!
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