The right research partner improves results

For more than two decades, the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center has partnered with major corporations to meet critical scientific, engineering and business challenges viewed as beyond reach. PSC provides an integrated HPC environment, deep technical support and Ph.D-level consultants to fast forward discovery in science, engineering and advanced computing.

PSC has nationwide relationships with research institutions and can pull together the cross-discipline talent you need for real collaboration. The technology-rich community in Pittsburgh includes PSC partners Carnegie Mellon University, Westinghouse Electric and the University of Pittsburgh, site of the renowned UP Medical Center.

HPC Resources
The PSC tool box is tailored for competitive advantage:

• CRAY XT3 and SGI Altix 4700 power... for large scale R&D or periodic ramp-ups in performance
• Virtually unlimited storage availability and high-speed data links between all PSC platforms
• Software for computational chemistry, engineering, biomed databases, neural/materials science
• Turnkey technical and logistical support... from problem definition to final results
• User consultants for code porting and optimization; HPC software and hardware solutions

Corporate Partners
PSC invites industry to discover the potential of real-time, collaborative HPC on the Darkstrand Network. Corporations that have partnered with us to advance the future include: Alcoa, Westinghouse, Electric DuPont, PPG Industries, Chevron Oil Field Research, McDonnell Douglas.

The Ohio Supercomputer Center provides supercomputing, networking, research and educational resources to a diverse state and national community, including education, academic research, industry and state government.

Blue Collar Computing™ (BCC) provides high performance computing (HPC) solutions for industrial partners. Established in 2004, the Blue Collar Computing program assists businesses in the application of computational science to product development, design, and management. The Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) works with a number of businesses and manufacturing organizations to apply our expertise and infrastructure to solve challenging computational problems in science and engineering.

Companies with existing simulation and modeling applications can use OSC's capacity to meet needs beyond their current infrastructure. Companies new to HPC modeling and simulation can tap the power of OSC's integrated HPC solutions.

HPC Resources
The Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) provides access to high performance computing (HPC) systems, including (in part):

• IBM 1350 Cluster using AMD Opteron processors (expansion of current system to be completed in Summer 2009)
• 75+ Tflops
• 9500+ cores
• 24 terabytes memory
• BALE Cluster with NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 Graphics cards
• 11+ TFlops
• 127 cores + 36 GPGPUs
• 220 GBytes memory
• Mass Storage Environment
• 470 TB of permanent disk storage for users and projects
• 250+ TB of temporary disk storage for running jobs
• 600+ TBs of tape storage for permanent file backups

Corporate Partners