Ohio Supercomputer Center to become Sun HPC center of excellence

For both bioinformatics and cheminformatics researchers, Sun computing resources will be used to generate and contribute to the wealth of chemical and genomic information. Ohio researchers, including those from The Ohio State University's Medical Center, will be able to use the computing and storage power of the OSC Center of Excellence to develop better tools to deal with disease. Cincinnati Children's Hospital is already exploring high performance computing to deal with pediatrics and disease.

The primary environment will be located and centrally managed at OSC to allow academic research collaborators to utilize the system and participate in the research efforts. A distributed center will also be located at the University of Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.

Business applications will be driven by the interests of business partners and by the expected development of a Center for Global Business Information Management and Computational Modeling at the University of Akron.

The Sun Center of Excellence will also allow a variety of industry and business partners from around the U.S. to experiment with distributed management and portal technologies.

Children's Hospital Medical Center and the University of Cincinnati's Department of Pediatrics are leaders in pediatric care and research. The grant from the Ohio Board of Regents and Sun Microsystems will create the first supercomputing center in the U.S. dedicated to pediatric research. The Medical Center's 350 researchers and other researchers in the region now have these tools available to support their scientific discovery.