Background
Richard Mohr joined ORNL in 2020 as an HPC Systems Engineer with the Technology Integration Group at the National Center for Computational Sciences (NCCS). He is working on projects related to parallel file systems and I/O benchmarking.
Richard started his career in HPC at the Ohio Supercomputer Center before moving to Oak Ridge in 2009 to work for the University of Tennessee in the National Institute for Computational Sciences (NICS) group. While working on the Kraken supercomputer at NICS, he started his involvement with the Lustre file system and became the lead storage administrator. Richard has also been a part of the TeraGrid and XSEDE projects for the NSF, and he has also collaborated on storage deployments for OLCF’s CADES project.
Richard attended Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology where he earned B.S. degrees in Physics and Mathematics in 1996. He attended graduate school at The Ohio State University, earning a M.S degree in Physics in 1999 and completing his Ph.D. in Nuclear Physics in 2003.
Education
Ohio State University
Physics
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)
Ohio State University
Physics
Master of Science (M.S.)
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Physics
Bachelor of Science (B.S.)
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Mathematics
Bachelor of Science (B.S.)
R&D Activities Contributions
Spider Storage System - The Spider Lustre-based Parallel File System Development and Deployment: The OLCF has deployed multiple large-scale parallel file systems (PFS) to support its operations. During this…
CADES – Compute and Data Environment for Science - CADES is an ORNL facility to support R&D staff’s scalable computing and data analytics needs—making a research computing toolkit available to every research scientist. CADES…
Publications
2019
Mohr, Rick and Adam P. Howard. 2019. “Provisioning ZFS Pools on Lustre.” In PEARC’19: Proceedings of the Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing, Chicago, IL, July 2019. https://doi.org/10.1145/3332186.3332245
2016
Mohr, Richard, Michael J. Brim, Sarp Oral, and Andreas Dilger. 2016. “Evaluating Progressive File Layouts For Lustre.” In Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on the Lustre Ecosystem: Enhancing Lustre Support for Diverse Workloads, Baltimore, MD, March 2016. https://lustre.ornl.gov/ecosystem-2016/documents/papers/LustreEco2016-
Mohr-PFL.pdf
2014
Mohr, Richard and Paul Peltz. 2014. “Benchmarking SSD-Based Lustre File System Configurations.” In Proceedings of the 2014 Annual Conference on Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE’14), Atlanta, GA, July 2014.
2014
Rogers, Gary, Jesse Hanley, and Richard Mohr. 2014. “Data Management Practices on Large-Scale Lustre Scratch File
Systems.” In Proceedings of the 2014 Annual Conference on Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery
Environment (XSEDE’14), Atlanta, GA, July 2014.
2013
Kinter, J. L., et al. “Revolutionizing Climate Modeling with Project Athena: A Multi-Institutional, International
Collaboration.” Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 94 (2013): 231–245.
2006
Mohr, Richard, Richard J. Furnstahl, Hans-Werner Hammer, Robert J. Perry, and Kenneth Wilson. “Precise numerical results for limit cycles in the quantum three-body problem.” Annals of Physics, 321 (2006): 225-259.
