Background

Dr. Sarp Oral is a Senior Research Scientist at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where he is a member of the Technology Integration Group and the Team Lead for the File and Storage Systems projects.

Sarp Oral 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

Big PanDA Workflow Management on Titan for High Energy and Nuclear Physics and for Future Extreme Scale Scientific Applications - This project will provide an important model for future exascale computing, increasing the coherence between the technology base used for high-performance computing and that used…

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…

Improving Parallel IO Efficiency & Usability - Spider PFS Metadata Snapshot Capture and Analysis: (i) LustreDU: The development a scalable tool to capture daily snapshots of the 1-Billion entry Spider PFS’s metadata.…

Grand Unified Information Directory Environment (GUIDE) - GUIDE is a framework used to collect, federate, and analyze log data from OLCF, and to derive insights into facility operations based on the log…

Staff Activities

Community Service:

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

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 - NCCS Sept. 30, 2005 Jaguar Acceptance Milestone

Highlights

Sarp Oral enjoys challenges of designing a large-scale file system
May 1, 2018

Faces of Summit: Tackling Storage