Ohio Supercomputer Center to become Sun HPC center of excellencePalo Alto 11 April 2001 Sun and OSC (Ohio Supercomputer Center) announced the selection of OSC as aSun Center of Excellence in High Performance Computing (HPC) Environments. The Sun Center of Excellence in HPC Environments is a collaborative project between OSC, The Ohio State University (OSU), University of Cincinnati and Cincinnati Children's Hospital, and University of Akron.
As a Sun Center of Excellence, OSC will be used to develop and
integrate science and business portals, focusing on life science
applications. A collaborative testbed infrastructure and
distributed storage from Sun will be available to researchers
working on a variety of applications. In addition, Sun's
visualization technology will allow users to "see" the results of
their research.
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.
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