Happy Birthday, OSCER

ByKate Adams

September 1, 2026

by Henry Neeman of OU

Happy 25th anniversary!

On August 31, OSCER opened our doors for the very first time.

Their very first act was to teach a supercomputing workshop, that very day. Back then, the full team was two people: Henry Neeman and Brandon George, our Manager of Operations — and they didn’t yet have any machines (those arrived in spring 2002). They’ve made a lot of progress and facilitated over a billion dollars of research since then, but it’s good to pause a moment and remember when they got started.

They’re delighted to have had this opportunity to collaborate with the University of Oklahoma and the wider Oklahoma research community, and they look forward to many more years together!

Happy OSCER’s anniversary from the OSCER Team:

Jose Agraz

Dave Akin

Sam Billerbeck

Patrick Calhoun

Reza Gheibi

Tim Huber

John Mueller

Henry Neeman

Horst Severini

Luke Sewell

Chris Carville

Ibrahim Mohammed

Shayan Shafaei