OSC and Blue Collar Computing Overview

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OSC and Blue Collar Computing Overview
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Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) Major Thrusts

• Shared, statewide services and technology
  leadership
• Leading and collaborating research with many
  state and national partners
• High performance computing resources for all
  state public and private higher education
  institutions
• New collaborations for computational science
  education and workforce development
• Renewed focus on economic development through
  Blue Collar Computing and networking for
  businesses

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Ohios innovation economic development tool

• Blue Collar Computing (BCC) provides industrial
  clients with supercomputing resources, training,
  and expertise to enhance their competitiveness
• Public and private sector researchers partner
  to
• Accelerate product development
• Promote process improvement
• Solve challenging scientific and industrial /
  business problems
• BCC Impacts Time, Quality and Cost
  
  of Product
  Service Development
  
• IBM Global Services OSCs partner for BCC
  service development and business planning

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Blue Collar Computing established for focused
industrial solutions

• BCC Partnerships OSC, University of Southern
  California Information Sciences Institute
  (USC/ISI), and Council on Competitiveness (CoC)
• OSC works closely with the CoC to promote HPC for
  industrial productivity
• OSC is part of the CoC and USC/ISI effort to
  create a National Innovation Collaboration
  Ecosystem (NICE)
• CoC and USC/ISI want to scale OSC BCC project up
  to a national level

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Blue Collar Computing Filling in the missing
middle
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Blue Collar Computing Research Innovation
Partnership with EWI

• E-Weld Predictor Portal
• EWI membership (80 clients, 800 CPU hours)
• Significantly increases solve time for
  automotive, energy, and others for weld
  parameters
• 2007 TopCAT Innovation Award Finalist for
  Outstanding Technology Team
• PolymerOhio and KISTI (Korean Institute of
  Science and Technology) collaborating with OSC on
  related fan blade model

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Established Blue Collar Computing for focused
industrial solutions

• BCC Example Polymer Portal in collaboration with
  PolymerOhio
• Polymers and plastics is a large industry in Ohio
  (2800 companies, 175,000 employees)
• The polymer portal is being developed to provide
  
• Expertise in polymer science and engineering
• Computational resources and software for modeling
  and simulation
• Databases with relevant material properties
• Advanced instrumentation
• Training
• Vendor relevant material
• Business intelligence and strategy

Software components supporting the Polymer Portal