Naming OSC's New System After Annie Oakley (IMAGE)
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The Ohio Supercomputer Center's newest cluster pays tribute to the legendary Ohio sharpshooter and social advocate Annie Oakley. Recent OSC systems have been named after important Ohio pioneers: The Glenn Cluster honors astronaut and statesman John Glenn and the ARMSTRONG research portal honors astronaut Neil Armstrong, while the Csuri Advanced GPU environment recognizes pioneering computer artist Charles “Chuck” Csuri. Oakley was born Phoebe Ann Moses in a log cabin in western Ohio's Darke County in 1860 and died in Greenville, Ohio, 66 years later. She learned to shoot a gun at the age of eight and performed for 16 years in a traveling Wild West show with "Buffalo Bill" Cody. During WWI, Oakley gave shooting demonstrations to raise money for medicine and supplies. Annie overcame poverty, mistreatment and physical injury, helped to break barriers for women and showed great compassion and generosity to orphans, widows and young women.
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