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Ohio Technology Consortium – You Will Recognize the Midwest in Just a Few Short Years As America’S Innovation Belt.” A comprehensive statewide technology organization delivering 214 teraflops of peak supercomputing performance 13 trillion Dynamic, Seamless Innovation megabytes of annual network Ohio Technology data traffic Consortium 70 million shared print Ohio Supercomputer Center and electronic OhioLINK resources OARnet eStudent Services Research & 60 Innovation Center thousand online courses & digital education resources OH-TECH offers its clients the richest “Because of our bourgeoning ability to suite of statewide technology resources solve big problems, I propose that, instead of any state in the country. of America’s Rust Belt – in addition to the Knowledge Belt and beyond the Recovery Belt Ohio Technology Consortium – you will recognize the Midwest in just a few short years as America’s Innovation Belt.” Dynamic, Seamless Innovation – Dr. Caroline Whitacre Vice President for Research OH-TECH’s primary purpose is to deliver next-generation The Ohio State University technologies, information and world-class expertise to provide Ohioans with a strong foundation for education, innovation and discovery. OH-TECH is comprised of five consortium member organizations: the Ohio Ohio Supercomputer Center Supercomputer Center, OARnet, OhioLINK, eStudent Services and the Research and Innovation Center. Empower. Partner. Lead. As a division of the Ohio Board of Regents, OH-TECH The Ohio Supercomputer Center provides supercomputing, streamlines the operational efficiency for Ohio’s statewide cyberinfrastructure, research and educational resources to a information and technology organizations. Internally, diverse state and national community, including education, OH-TECH provides advanced services to its member academic research, industry and state government. organizations through the efforts of staff in the areas of Shared Infrastructure, Consortia Fiscal Services and Policy OSC resources include: &Connected Communications. Partners • Installation of hardware and software applications for OH-TECH Partners use with OSC supercomputing systems, which deliver a Lake Ashtabula Toledo combined peak computing performance of more than Fulton Lucas Williams Ottawa Cleveland 200 Teraflops. Our consulting staff will also work with Geauga Trumbull Sandusky Defiance Henry Wood Erie Cuyahoga you to resolve problems, port and optimize codes Lorain Summit Portage Youngstown Seneca Huron Paulding Mahoning Medina • Providing advanced computing technology solutions Putnam Akron Ashland Hancock Wayne to small and mid-sized companies through the Van Wert Wyandot Crawford Stark Lima Allen Columbiana Canton Richland AweSim pubic/private partnership, allowing for Hardin Marion Carroll Auglaize Holmes New Philadelphia Mercer Morrow reduced time to market for products and services Jefferson Knox Logan Shelby Union Delaware Coshocton Tuscarawas Harrison • Workforce education through innovative programs in Darke Delaware Champaign Licking Guernsey Miami computational science, including a baccalaureate minor, Muskingum Belmont Columbus Clark Newark Franklin an associate concentration and workforce certification Montgomery Preble Madison Fairfield Perry Dayton Noble Monroe Pickaway Morgan Greene Fayette Washington Hocking Butler Warren Athens Clinton Chillicothe Ross Vinton Athens Hamilton Highland Meigs Pike Cincinnati Clermont Jackson Brown Adams Scioto Gallia Portsmouth Lawrence LEGEND LEGEND 88 Higher Education Campuses 30 Industry Partners Higher Education Main Campus K-12 Education: ITC or Large Urban Area Public Broadcast Station Backbone 76Higher Higher Education Branch Education Campus Health CareRegional Facility Local Government6 Health or State Agency Care FacilitiesOARnet PoPs CampusesCorporate Partner 9 Public Broadcast 23 K-12 Education ITCs Stations 15 Local Governments or State of Ohio Agencies www.oh-tech.org “When you’re talking about the modern health care research industry, you’re talking about “OhioLINK’s per student investment for access enormous data sets that require huge bandwidth. to more than 81,000 e-books and 20 million One reason we located our new company in electronic journal articles is only $65, less than Ohio, rather than California, is because Ohio the average cost of a single textbook!” demonstrated the most forward-thinking – Phyllis O’Connor, Interim Dean approach to technology and high-speed.” The University of Akron – Kenneth A. Murray, Jr. President/CEO Transformatix OARnet OhioLINK Connect. Aggregate. Collaborate. Shared Services. Shared Resources. Ohio’s education, public broadcasting, health care and Ohio’s statewide higher education community benefits from government communities benefit from the driving principles the extensive array of print and digital scholarly resources of OARnet: Increase access to affordable broadband service, made available through the Ohio Library and Information reduce the cost of technology through aggregate purchasing Network, a consortium of Ohio’s academic libraries and the and maximize shared-services opportunities. State Library of Ohio. OARnet services include: OhioLINK creates a competitive advantage for Ohio’s higher education community. • More than 1,850 miles of high-speed optical fiber blanket the state; most of our backbone service runs at an ultra- OhioLINK resources are: fast 100 Gigabits per second. Last year, the network • Nationally respected, serving as a powerful recruiting carried an average of 36 Petabytes of data each day tool for top students and faculty on college and university campuses across Ohio • A virtualization aggregate purchasing program that has • Cooperatively acquired at the lowest possible cost saved Ohio education and state government more than • Putting Ohio’s world-renowned academic institutions $100 million on VMware® at the forefront of research with OhioLINK’s unique • Opportunities to expand your cabinet space or Electronic Theses and Dissertation (ETD) Center implement disaster recovery plans by taking advantage of connections into more than 10 geographically diverse OhioLINK’s 91 member libraries share more than 50 million data centers located around the state library items and 20 million articles. eStudent Services Research & Innovation Center Educate. Motivate. Graduate. Explore. Discover. Innovate. eStudent Services programs centralize online educational Ohio has a rich history as an entrepreneurial and delivery, increase educational access and facilitate student technological leader, being the home of Edison, the success. Last year, more than 141,000 students had access Wright Brothers, John Glenn and Neil Armstrong. Soon, to online tutoring programs. Ohio will continue in its long tradition of pushing the limits of discovery and innovation. eStudent Services programs include: Our public and private partners have committed to • eTutoring, which provides Ohio college students with establishing an OH-TECH Research & Innovation Center, virtual academic tutoring options where companies will be able to access a statewide, 100 • OhioLearns maintains a searchable catalog of Ohio Gigabit-per-second network and a powerful, cutting edge higher education distance-learning courses, degrees supercomputer in order to create entirely new businesses and programs by capturing enormous volumes of data and mining it for • ilearnOhio provides a comprehensive e-learning new knowledge. The center will support the exploration platform for Ohio’s K-12 students, parents, teachers of a wide range of educational, medical and commercial and schools applications and software, promoting the invention of compelling broadband, software and advanced technology applications. Contact Us OH-TECH, 1224 Kinnear Road | Columbus, OH 43212 | ph: (614) 292-9248 | www.oh-tech.org eStudent Services Ohio Supercomputer Center & OARnet OhioLINK Greg Davidson Pankaj Shah Gwen Evans Interim Director Executive Director Executive Director eStudent Services Ohio Supercomputer Center & OARnet OhioLINK Phone: (614) 292-8020 Phone: (614) 292-1486 Phone: (614) 485-6722 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] twitter.com/OHTECHCo facebook.com/OhioTechnologyConsortium vimeo.com/ohiotechnology 08|18|14 Dynamic, Seamless Innovation.
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