An Overview of the Ohio Supercomputer Center, and a Discussion of Ongoing Research in Video Annotati

Stanley C. Ahalt, Ph.D.
Ohio State UniversityAbstract:In this talk I will provide an overview of the Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC), including a description of some of the ongoing development and research projects that have been initiated while I have been the Executive Director at OSC. OSC provides shared high performance computing and networking for Ohio's scientific and engineering communities. The Center effectively leverages these resources on a collaborative basis to procure significant extramural funding for the Center and a wide range of university and business collaborators in Ohio. In the past four years OSC has built a strong national reputation for providing training, scientific computing, and research services to both Ohio and national collaborators. Additionally, OSC has played a major role in bringing new research communities, such as signal and image processing, to HPC and has provided national leadership in HPC as applied to industrial applications through its Blue Collar Computing (BCC) initiative. OSC and the Third Frontier Network (OSCnet) were recently cited in a 2006 Battelle report as a key collaborative center that marks Ohio's strength in information technology. I will also provide an overview of some of my personal research that has been conducted while I have been at OSC, concentrating on work in video annotation.Biography:Stanley C. Ahalt, Ph.D., oversees high performance computing, networking, and research operations as executive director of the Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC). Since taking the leadership of OSC in 2003, Ahalt has launched several nationally recognized programs, including Blue Collar Computing, a national program to bring high performance computing to a wide spectrum of industries and applications, and OSCnet, the nation's leading high-speed research network for K-12, higher education and economic development.Ahalt's research expertise involves signal/image/video processing and object identification high performance computing, and neural networks. He has authored or co-authored more than 120 technical papers. Ahalt also serves as the academic lead in the area of signal and image processing for the Department of Defense (DoD) High Performance Computing Modernization Program. This initiative provides essential support for the wide variety of research and development demands that arise from the science and technology programs supporting DoD's development and support systems. Ahalt collaborates with a variety of organizations in his active research programs, including the Army Research Laboratory, Wright Patterson Air Force Base, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
Ahalt has been a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The Ohio State University since 1987, and co-founded the Information Processing Systems Laboratory at OSU. He received the OSU Lumley Research Award in 1997 and the OSU College of Engineering Research Award in 1999. Prior to joining OSU, Ahalt worked at Bell Telephone Laboratories where he developed industrial data products.

Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248

Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

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