"Botnets" are essentially weapons of Internet warfare: A horde of compromised computers used in larger network security attacks. And the scary thing is your computer could be compromised and you wouldn't even know it! But there are ways you can protect yourself from these attacks and prevent your computer from becoming just another "bot."
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 first of three installments details the Home Health project.
Karen Boyd, eStudent Services’ eTutoring Coordinator, has a passion for helping students reach the “aha” moment in learning. Before coming to eStudent Services, Karen worked in higher education as an adjunct faculty member at Central Ohio Technical College in communications.
She received her Master of Social Sciences from Ohio University, her bachelor’s degree in communications from Capital University and is currently pursuing her Doctor of Leadership Studies from Ashland University.
The Ohio Supercomputer Center's AweSim engagement program and Emc2 teamed up recently for a three-day training workshop on a Virtual Fabrication Technology (VFT) application developed by Emc2 and run through AweSim’s “app store” on OSC systems. Find out what VFT is and how it helps both AweSim and Emc2 continue to help small- and medium-sized companies gain access to modeling and simulation/high performance computing tools.
Our society craves the ability to get the newest, hottest product immediately. To meet these demands, manufacturing is evolving to find ways to get products to market faster.
That's where modeling and simulation/HPC comes in, by beginning to play a role in “Supply Chain Solutions.” Check out the newest AweSim blog to see how that's happening.
Each summer the Ohio Supercomputer Center hosts two programs that offer Ohio students a hands-on learning STEM experience.
The Summer Institute, which runs from June 12-24, is available to Ohio high school students entering their sophomore, junior or senior year. The students will work in small peer teams while using the supercomputers for practical applications including engineering problems, network forensics and computer game designs.
Whether you are seriously considering higher education as a traditional or non-traditional student, you have more options than ever before. And while having all of those options is a wonderful thing, it is also important that you understand three key considerations.
Innovation and change aren't always popular or embraced until it's either obvious or too late. High performance computing and the modeling and simulation it offers is an irreplaceable tool for those of us who experience the benefits each day. For those who don't see it, or haven't jumped on board yet, AweSim might just be the answer.
The term “DDoS” can strike terror in the hearts of network operators, web site owners, gamers, educators, or anyone who relies on Internet service – which today means just about everyone. “DDoS” – pronounced “dee-doss” – stands for Distributed Denial of Service. It refers to a type of Internet attack where the attacker uses many hundreds or thousands of computers (the “distributed” part) to target a single system, with the goal of denying the target’s ability to use the Internet (the “denial of service” part).
The Young Women’s Science Institute (YWSI) and the Summer Institute (SI), summer programs hosted by the Ohio Supercomputer Center, are two of the many programs ready to change stereotypes and address the obstacles that are hampering women from entering STEM. Birce Ela Onal, a graduate student in the OSU engineering program, has served as a residential adviser and career panelist for these programs and shares her observations on the effect it has on the campers.
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