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Betsy Sonewald

Betsy Sonewald is a science writer and communications specialist in the National Center for Computational Sciences division. She highlights news and accomplishments from across the division and its programs.

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Secure Science with CITADEL

A team from Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) used the CITADEL security framework to securely transfer and analyze veterans’ health records on ORNL’s Summit, an IBM AC922 supercomputer housed at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility, a US Department of Energy (DOE)…
Betsy Sonewald
December 1, 2022
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LLNL, ORNL Unite for UnifyFS

A multi-institution team is celebrating the latest software release that supports the use of distributed node-local storage devices for high-performance computing (HPC) applications. The software is an important piece of the hierarchical storage system required on modern, large-scale HPC systems and offers a unified shared namespace over distributed storage resources…
Betsy Sonewald
November 1, 2022
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Exascale Day 2022

On October 18, the US Department of Energy's (DOE's) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is celebrating the fourth National Exascale Day. The holiday was created in 2019 as an initiative of DOE's Exascale Computing Project (ECP) and Cray, a Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company, to honor scientists and researchers who will…
Betsy Sonewald
October 17, 2022
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New Storage System Complements Existing Capabilities at the OLCF

Users of Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s (ORNL’s) computing systems will soon have access to a new data storage system managed by the National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS). Themis, an IBM Spectrum Archive storage system, will offer users a flexible storage option in the Open security enclave and expand the…
Betsy Sonewald
September 20, 2022
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OLCF, ECMWF Accepting Proposals for New Virtual Hackathon

The Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF), in partnership with the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) is accepting proposals for the 2022 Integrated Forecast System (IFS) Experimental Nature Run (NR) Data Hackathon, a virtual hackathon open to teams around the world. Teams will have unprecedented access to a…
Betsy Sonewald
July 29, 2022
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TRITON: A Powerful Toolkit for Modern Flood Modeling

A team of researchers from the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Tennessee Technological University have created a 2D, open-source flood inundation model designed for a multiarchitecture computing system. The Two-dimensional Runoff Inundation Toolkit for Operational Needs, or TRITON, can use multiple graphics processing units, or GPUs, to…
Betsy Sonewald
July 25, 2022
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Pioneering Frontier: Automating at Exascale

The “Pioneering Frontier” series features stories profiling the many talented ORNL employees behind the construction and operation of the OLCF’s incoming exascale supercomputer, Frontier. The HPE Cray system was delivered in 2021, with full user operations expected in 2022. Rafael Ferreira da Silva’s job is to make life simple—at least for…
Betsy Sonewald
July 25, 2022
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Register for Lustre User Group Virtual Conference 2022

Registration is open for the 2022 Lustre User Group (LUG22) conference, "the high-performance computing industry's primary venue for discussion on the open-source Lustre file system and other technologies." The annual conference will welcome experts from the National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS) and around the world to discuss the latest…
Betsy Sonewald
May 4, 2022
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Demystifying the World of High-Performance Computing

A series of hands-on training seminars offered through the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF), a US Department of Energy Office of Science user facility located at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), is opening the doors of high-performance computing (HPC) to a wider audience. Usually offered to participants at events…
Betsy Sonewald
February 16, 2022