Background

Dr. Sarp Oral is the Group Leader for the Technology Integration Group and a Distinguished Research Scientist at the National Center of Computational Sciences (NCCS) Division of Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Sarp holds a PhD in Computer Engineering from University of Florida. He joined the ORNL in 2006 and his research and development interests are parallel I/O and file system technologies, benchmarking, high-performance computing and networking, fault-tolerance.

Education

2003
University of Florida
Computer Engineering
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)

R&D Activities Contributions

DDSD: Data-Driven HPC System Design - As supercomputers grow more expensive, a more data-driven procurement strategy is needed to optimize the overall system performance while avoiding speculative resource provisioning at the…

Staff Activities

Community Service:

2019

Director at Large

Director at Large of the Open Scalable File Systems (OpenSFS) non-profit organization

2017

President of the OpenSFS

President and Director of the Board of Executives of the Open Scalable File Systems (OpenSFS) non-profit organization

2015

Vice President of the OpenSFS

Vice President of the Open Scalable File Systems (OpenSFS) non-profit organization

Awards

2019 — Secretary of Energy’s Honor Award - Department of Energy, Summit and Sierra Teams

2019 — UT-Battelle Annual Award - ORNL - Summit Project

2015 — Significant Event Award - ORNL - Summit Supercomputer Acquisition Project

2011 — Significant Event Award - ORNL - Establishment of the National Climate Computing Research Center

2011 — Significant Event Award - ORNL - Spider file system performance improvement through technology integration

2010 — Significant Event Award - ORNL - Spider parallel file system deployment and transition to operations

2006 — Significant Event Award - ORNL - Jaguar Acceptance Milestone

Highlights