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Today's digest features articles on data and network security, Honda expanding its business in order to increase exports from US plants, and higher education privacty when it comes to information technology. Also featured is information on Microsoft's new 3D printing application, Obama's competition to overhaul high schools in America, and community colleges working on competency-based credentials

An exterior view of the National Petascale Computing Facility, home to the Blue Waters supercomputer (Image: NCSA/University of Illinois)

The Blue Waters project, managed by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois, recently announced a unique fellowship program for doctoral students who can use the Blue Waters computing system to help complete their academic research. This may be the only National Science Foundation project that funds this type of opportunity. The Ohio Supercomputer Center is under contract with NCSA to manage the fellowship program.

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Today, there are 62 institution systems supporting 90 member libraries. All new or updated metadata from a single library flows to the central system in real time so that the records in the central system are as current as they are at the individual library level. Users rely on this functionality as they search the central system looking for books and other resources to support their research.

Today we feature articles on the DOE's new 'extreme scale' supercomputer, more information on the effects of sequestration on higher education, and a resource center in Ohio aiming at finding workers for area manufacturers in Erie, Huron, Sandusky, and Seneca counties. Also featured is an article on ORNL using 3D printers to help with development in engineering and technology, along with information on technology and machine tool sales increasing. 

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The staff of the Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) is heading west again this year (Salt Lake City last year; Denver this year) to attend SC13, the premier international conference for high performance computing, networking, storage and analysis. The staff will have a brand new booth to call "home away from home," and they will be introducing the HPC industry to a brand new industrial engagement initiative.

Today's digest focuses on a variety of articles including Japanese manufacturing of automatic vehicles, Ohio renewable energy companies adjusting to new efficiency standards, education technology efforts through Rosetta Stone, and Emerson Educational Services working on distance learning courses to help with workforce development. Also included is information on Obama's initiative to bring manufacturing jobs back to the US through the use of 3D printers in schools, along with news on three universities to focus on the usefulness of Big Data

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As noted in this blog just a few weeks ago, the Ohio Supercomputer Center has launched a new program to foster the creation of advanced manufacturing apps to facilitate adoption of modeling and simulation by small and medium-sized businesses. Known as AweSim, the initiative is a collaborative effort of OSC, P&G, Intel, AltaSim Technologies, TotalSim USA, Kinetic Vision and Nimbis Services. I’m very excited about the potential of this new program, but industrial engagement efforts are nothing new to OSC.

Today's daily digest features articles on job development in Ohio for US Veterans, Case Western Reserve robotics research efforts funded by the NIH, and the growth of online learning standards in higher education. Also featured are articles on the continued effects of sequestration on university research, Ohio manufacturing development, and the surpsing effect of the shutdown on US businesses