Established in 1987, the Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) is a partner of Ohio universities and industries that provides a high performance computing, research, cyberinfrastructure, and computational science education services.

OSC works with a statewide/regional community, including education, academic research, industry, and state government. The Center's research programs are primarily aligned with three of several key areas of research identified by the state to be well positioned for growth and success: biosciences, advanced materials and energy/environment.

OSC is supported by the Ohio General Assembly

Ohio General Assembly

The Ohio General Assembly is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Ohio. It consists of the 99-member Ohio House of Representatives and the 33-member Ohio Senate...

 and through the Ohio Board of Regents

Ohio Board of Regents

The Ohio Board of Regents is the coordinating board for higher education in Ohio. The board was created in 1963 by the Ohio General Assembly to: provide higher education policy advice to the Governor of Ohio and the Ohio General Assembly; develop a strategy involving Ohio's public and independent...

 with funding in the state operating and capital budgets. OSC is situated on the West Campus of The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio

Columbus, Ohio

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, United States

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Key research areas at OSC include:

• Remote Instrumentation Services
• Analytics
• Computational Science Engineering Research Applications
• Cyberinfrastructure and Software Development
• Bioinformatics
  Bioinformatics
  Bioinformatics is the application of computer science and information technology to the field of biology and medicine. Bioinformatics deals with algorithms, databases and information systems, web technologies, artificial intelligence and soft computing, information and computation theory, software...
  
  
• Biomedical Sciences and Visualizations Research
• Advanced Web Portals and Applications

Key initiatives at OSC include:

• Blue Collar Computing
• The Ralph Regula School of Computational Science

External links

• OSC website
• Ralph Regula School website