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About Us

In a world where limitless information is only a few clicks away, we believe computing should be just as accessible. 

About OOD

Active Deployments

Since Open OnDemand’s launch in 2017, nearly 400 HPC centers around the world have deployed the portal.

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Our History & Vision

In the early 2000s, when smartphones made information accessible anywhere, we had an epiphany: what if you could access supercomputers from anywhere, too? Many years later, this simple idea still guides the work of Open OnDemand, an open-source web portal run by researchers at the Ohio Supercomputer Center and supported by contributors around the world. Our technology has enabled hundreds of institutions to expand access to their supercomputers, transforming the way countless students, researchers, and industry professionals work and learn.

NSF ACCESS award is up for renewal.
Open OnDemand virtual classrooms enable learning and teaching continuity during pandemic shutdowns.
Google awards OSC grant to adapt Open OnDemand to fo r Google Cloud platform.
OSC receives an NSF ACCESS award.
Open OnDemand surpasses 250 known installations.
OnDemand achieves 50 known installations.
Open OnDemand achieves 16 known installations.
Open OnDemand achieves 5 known installations.
OSC receives a 3-year NSF grant for $500,000 to develop Open OnDemand.
OSC debuts OSC Ondemand during the 2013 XSEDE conference.
OSC builds its first web portal, E-weld Predictor, in partnership with EWI, laying the foundation for Open OnDemand.

Our Team

Meet the brains who keep Open OnDemand performing at 10^18 FLOPS. 

Alan Chalker

Alan Chalker

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Alan Chalker, Ph.D., is Director of Strategic Programs at the Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC), as well as Director of Awesim, OSC’s industry outreach program. In this role he is responsible for all non-academic client relationships for OSC. He also coordinates the preparation and submission of many of the center’s grant proposals and manages a variety of smaller research projects, serving as the PI or co-PI on several funded programs at any given time, including OSC's widely adopted Open OnDemand platform.

Dave Hudak

Dave Hudak

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David E. Hudak, Ph.D., is the executive director of the Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC). He previously was OSC's director of supercomputer services and program director for cyber infrastructure and software development. His research interests include high-level languages for parallel computing, HPC software engineering and network protocol design.

Press

The ERN Cryo-EM Federated Instrument Pilot Project

This project is facilitating multi-institutional collaboration through the development and design of an easy to use, web-based portal at the interface of computing and Structural Biology, scientific instruments. It will provide federated access to the instruments, workflows utilizing edge computing in conjunction with cloud computing and real-time monitoring for experimental parameter adjustments and decisions.

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KSU architecture students access supercomputers to help with coursework

The Ohio Supercomputer Center created a customized virtual lab for architecture students at Kent State.

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