Today's digest focuses on women in STEM education and workforce efforts, funding for the Ohio Third Frontier, and aviation manufacturing in Dayton, Ohio. Also featured is information on OSU's new efforts to help the Cleveland Browns use better energy saving techniques in their stadium and an update on Massive Open Online Courses and the Public Library.
It was just a year ago that OARnet officially lit its 100 Gigabit-per-second network backbone service. At the time OARnet's implementation was the first statewide lighting of a 100G service and was one of the first in the United States. The pace and acceleration of technology advancement is relentless, and in just one year 100G services are now commercially available. To put it in perspective, at the time OARnet lit the 100G service, it was still highly experimental.
Today we highlight articles on supercomputing and materials science, China industrial growth coming to a lull, and federal budget decisions. Also included is information on opinions regarding the changes in higher education structure and workforce development efforts in the US
The digest for this Wednesday includes information on the expansion of massive open online courses, a new health education program at Cleveland State University, and a new unusual supercomputing design used for researching climate change. Also included is information on oil and gas industry tax increases for the state of Ohio, along with the status of income generation for Ohio's research.
Today's digest features information on a Northeast Ohio community college receiving grant funding for job training, investment in even more job creation throughout the state of Ohio, and technology being used as a study aid for many students. Also featured is information on manufacturers working with NASA to solve product issues and manufacturing and health care involvement.
Today's digest focuses on information on an Ohio bill making changes to teacher evaluations, US achievements in comparison to other nations, Medicaid savings going toward a Straight-A-Fund for educational advancement, and Northeast Ohio's job growth. Also included is information on Russia's supercomputing efforts.
The final Digest for this week focuses on new forms of supercomputing tailoring to the consumer market, along with information on how Big Data is used to solve real world everyday problems. We also provide information on a delay in the release of the new Common Core aligned SAT, a Northeast Ohio community college job training program, and information on a report focusing on performance funding in higher education institutions.
This month, in addition to celebrating the holiday season, the OARnet staff will be marking a signal event in the history of the organization. A year ago, Gov. John Kasich visited our offices to recognize the lighting of Ohio’s statewide 100 Gigabit per second network. The announcement sealed his January State-of-the-State promise to deploy the ultra-fast network by the end of the year.
The daily digest for this Thursday highlights information on technology and higher ed all in the state of Ohio. We have information on a new Ohio manufacturing center investment, college graduate debt, and energy efficiency and renewable energy laws. Also included is information on unemployment in Ohio along with new efforts aiming to help students apply and get into colleges.
Today's digest highlights the new head of the FCC's first major policy presentation on communications at The Ohio State University. Also included is information on Northeast Ohio health care working with big data, China and the US competing for the lead in 3D printing, digital textbooks and self-driving cars
In Denver recently, my Ohio Supercomputer Center colleagues and I participated in SC13, the “International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis,” and we celebrated the event’s 25th conference. Organizers created a timeline display of the conference over the years, and it was very interesting to see how the conference has grown and evolved with the industry that it represents. I made some mental notes about some of what I saw this year to share with blog readers.
The digest for this Tuesday focuses on big data and development in agriculture, online education across the globe along with online tutoring efforts, along with IBM introducing a public sector based cloud. Also included is information on faster and more powerful supercomputing efforts!
Today's digest includes articles on Microsoft increasing encryption of internet traffic, research and development at Georgia Institute of Technology and USC, the EU working with the US on data sharing, and accounting reforms at higher education institutions taking its toll on students' finances. Also included is information on five winners of a new Navy modeling and simulation contract focusing on war fighting, manpower and fleet readiness.
The digest for this Wednesday features articles on new research on financial outlook of colleges, Ohio's Governor John Kasich working to ratify legislation to create a balanced budget amendment, and new science and technology policies relative to high-performance computing. Also included are two articles focusing on Big Data--One in the US and one in Brazil.
We will continue our Daily Digest, next week, after this short Holiday break. Happy Thanksgiving!
Today's Daily Digest features articles on Ohio community college funding, high school STEM programs, airplane engine manufacturing, electric car development at Ohio State, and open enrollment in Ohio public schools. Also included is an article highlighting SC13 in Denver and information on tuition revenue at U.S. public universities.
Today's digest features articles on a lull in job growth in Ohio, the opening of a manufacturing plant within the state, and a cloud networking innovation to help with natural disaster recovery. Also included is information on Massive Open Online Course expansion, information on the federal budget changes, and HPC computing in California
Today we focus on information regarding Cleveland State University's use of mobile applications, nonprofit organization Connect Ohio's workforce development effort through the expansion of broadband access across sthe state, and higher education institutions' policies regarding dual enrollment. Also included is information on Honda's new fuel-cell car development, manufacturing jobs increasing and Ohio state engineering and business schools expanding their work to the private sector
The digest for this Thursday features information on the improvement of data systems and data quality, private cloud based services on a global scale, and a new supercomputing record reached by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Also included is information on the debate of state reciprocity agreements in regards to evaluation of distance education providers, and an update on the COMPETES legislation in regards to scientific research and STEM education
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
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.
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.
Today's Digest highlights news focusing on 3D printing and biomedical research, the American Library Association and Ohio's Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Also featured is information on a high demand for jobs in manufacturing in Northeast Ohio, new projects with Google Books, and natural gas boosting Ohio's economy.
Today's daily digest has a lot of focus on supercomputing and big data efforts at Oak Ridge, Google, and through the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and Networking program. Also featured is the news on Lockheed Martin manufacturing plant closure in Ohio and Greenpeace working to further renewable energy use.
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.
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