Along with the CCAPP Director John Beacom and Science Board member Annika Peter, the Ohio Board of Regents Chencellor John Carey and Ohio State Vice President for Research Caroline Whitacre, as well as other dignitaries helped unveil the Ohio Supercomputer Center's (OSC's) new Ruby supercomputer on April 9, 2015 at the State of Ohio Computer Center on Ohio State's West Campus.

 

The Ruby Cluster is a 4800-core Intel Xeon processor-based machine with a theoretical peak performance of 144 teraFLOPS, tech-speak for 144 trillion calculations per second. CCAPP is one of two research groups that co-own Ruby with the OSC. This new facility will enable CCAPP researchers to better connect theoretical models to observations of astrophysical processes and objects.

 

Many thanks to Annika Peter for spearheading the CCAPP partnership with OSC, and to CCAPP and CCAPP faculty who contributed funds to make this possible.

 

The supercomputer system is named after Ruby Dee, an American actress, playwright, screenwriter, activist, poet and journalist. She was born Ruby Ann Wallace in Cleveland, Ohio, and grew up in New York's Harlem neighborhood. She is perhaps best known for starring in the 1961 film and subsequent stage production of A Raisin in the Sun. Dee and her husband, Ossie Davis, were very active in the Civil Rights Movement, participating in marches and speaking out for racial equality.

 

Read more about the dedication: "Chancellor helps OSC dedicate Ruby Cluster"

 

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