Million Teraflops Trillion Thousand

330+ 13 teraflops trillion peak computing megabytes of annual performance network data traffic

Ohio Supercomputer Center OARnet OhioLINK 70 60 eStudent Services million thousand Research & Innovation Center shared print and online courses & digital electronic resources education resources “The OH-TECH consortium is an invaluable part “Because of our bourgeoning ability to solve big of the Ohio Department of Higher Education. problems, I propose that, instead of America’s The role of technology in higher education Rust Belt — in addition to the Knowledge cannot be overstated, and OH-TECH provides Belt and beyond the Recovery Belt — you Ohioans with nationally regarded resources will recognize the Midwest in just a few short in high performance computing, networking, years as America’s Innovation Belt.” resource sharing and online learning services.” — Dr. Caroline Whitacre, VP for Research — John Carey, Chancellor The Ohio State University Ohio Department of Higher Education

Ohio Technology Consortium Ohio Supercomputer Center

Dynamic, Seamless Innovation Empower. Partner. Lead.

OH-TECH’s primary purpose is to deliver next- The Ohio Supercomputer Center provides generation technologies, information and world-class supercomputing, cyberinfrastructure, research expertise to provide Ohioans with a strong foundation and educational resources to a diverse state and for education, innovation and discovery. OH-TECH is national community, including education, academic comprised of five consortium member organizations: research, industry and state government. the Ohio Supercomputer Center, OARnet, OhioLINK, eStudent Services and the still-in-development OSC resources include: Research and Innovation Center. • Installation of hardware and software applications for use with OSC supercomputing systems, As a division of the Ohio Department of Higher which deliver a combined peak computing Education, OH-TECH streamlines the operational performance of more than 330 teraflops. Our efficiency for Ohio’s statewide information consulting staff also will work with clients to and technology organizations. Internally, OH- resolve problems, port and optimize codes TECH also provides advanced services to its member organizations through the efforts • Providing advanced computing technology solutions of staff in the areas of Shared Infrastructure, to industry through the AweSim public/private Fiscal Services and Communications. partnership, allowing for reduced time to market • Workforce education through innovative programs in computational science, including a baccalaureate minor, an associate concentration and workforce certification

OH-TECH Partners

LEGEND

Higher Education Campuses Medical Centers & & Higher Education Regional Research Institutions Campuses & Sites Broadcast Education K-12 Education Centers Media Stations & Services Local Government Agenices Corporate Partners State of Ohio Sites OARnet Backbone PoP Locations OARnet Backbone “In four months, VMware has allowed us “OhioLINK’s per-student investment for access to consolidate our physical servers into a to more than 81,000 e-books and 20 million virtual server that is 1/8th the rack space electronic journal articles is only $65, less of our old system, reduce our data center than the average cost of a single textbook!” energy consumption by 93 percent, and — Phyllis O’Connor, Interim Dean simplify server administration by .5 FTE.” The University of Akron — Dave Bender, Executive Director of IT Services Otterbein University

OARnet OhioLINK

Connect. Aggregate. Collaborate. Shared Services. Shared Resources. Ohio’s education, public broadcasting, health care Ohio’s statewide higher education community benefits and government communities benefit from the from the extensive array of print and digital scholarly driving principles of OARnet: Increase access to resources made available through the Ohio Library affordable broadband service, reduce the cost and Information Network, a consortium of Ohio’s of technology through aggregate purchasing academic libraries and the State Library of Ohio. and maximize shared-services opportunities. OhioLINK creates a competitive advantage OARnet services include: for Ohio’s higher education community. • More than 2,240 miles of high-speed optical fiber OhioLINK resources are: blanket the state; most of our backbone service runs at an ultra-fast 100 Gigabits per second • Nationally respected, serving as a powerful recruiting tool for top students and faculty on • A virtualization aggregate purchasing program college and university campuses across Ohio that has saved Ohio education and state government more than $47 million on VMware® • Cooperatively acquired at the lowest possible cost • Opportunities to expand your cabinet • Showcasing the research of Ohio’s world-renowned space or implement disaster recovery academic institutions in OhioLINK’s open access plans by taking advantage of connections Electronic Theses and Dissertation (ETD) Center into more than 10 geographically diverse data centers located around the state

www.oh-tech.org eStudent Services Research & Innovation Center

Educate. Motivate. Graduate. Explore. Discover. Innovate. eStudent Services programs centralize online Ohio has a rich history as an entrepreneurial educational delivery, increase educational and technological leader, being the home of access and facilitate student success. Edison, the Wright Brothers, John Glenn and Neil Armstrong. Through the R&I Center, Ohio eStudent Services is excited to collaborate with the will continue in its long tradition of pushing Ohio Educational Technology Conference. The Ohio the limits of discovery and innovation. Educational Technology Conference (OETC) is the Through this center, companies will be able to nation’s premier P–20 state educational technology access a statewide, 100 Gigabit-per-second network conference, which each year attracts more than 4,000 and a powerful, cutting-edge supercomputer educational technology professionals and enthusiasts. in order to create entirely new businesses by eStudent Services programs include: capturing enormous volumes of data and mining • eTutoring, which provides Ohio college students it for new knowledge. The center will support with virtual academic tutoring options the exploration of a wide range of educational, • OhioLearns, which maintains a searchable catalog medical and commercial applications and software, of Ohio higher education distance-learning promoting the invention of compelling broadband, courses, degrees, programs and certificates software and advanced technology applications.

Ohio Supercomputer Center OhioLINK eStudent Services & OARnet Gwen Evans [email protected] Pankaj Shah Executive Director Executive Director, OhioLINK Ohio Supercomputer Center & OARnet (614) 485-6722 | [email protected] (614) 292-1486 | [email protected]

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