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Goodbye HPSS, Hello Kronos

Users of the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility are experiencing big changes with how their data is stored — in a good way. As the OLCF’s High Performance Storage System is to be decommissioned in early 2025 after decades of service, users are becoming familiar with Kronos, which is already proving its ease of use and…
Angela Gosnell
October 22, 2024
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Forging a File System

Imagine solving the greatest scientific question of the era but having no way to save your answer. No need to fear, thanks to Dustin Leverman and his team. Leverman leads the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility’s High-Performance Computing Storage and Archive Group at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge…
Matt Lakin
March 30, 2023
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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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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

ATS Seminar Series: Anthony Kougkas

The Advanced Technologies Section (ATS) of the National Center for Computational Sciences at ORNL is a world leader in developing and deploying scientific and technical solutions for leadership-class computing environments. The R&D activities of ATS are organized around designing and deploying leadership class systems, developing artificial intelligence solutions for science…
Katie Bethea
July 6, 2021
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The Greenest Option: Finding New Homes for Old Machines

As head of the High-Performance Computing (HPC) Infrastructure Operations Group in the National Center for Computational Science (NCCS) at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Paul Abston does not like to see government investments in technology go to waste. Even more so, he is highly…
Coury Turczyn
October 28, 2020
Technology

TechInt Develops New Solutions for Storage on Summit

The computational users running scientific codes on the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility’s (OLCF’s) 200-petaflop IBM AC922 Summit supercomputer are generating more data than ever. To handle this data explosion, each Summit compute node is equipped with a solid-state storage device (SSD) that provides a fourfold speedup in the write…
Rachel McDowell
June 12, 2019
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OLCF Active in New User-Oriented OpenSFS

File and Storage System Team Lead Sarp Oral (second from left) poses with other OpenSFS officers (left to right) Shawn Hall of BP, Stephen Simms of Indiana University, Rick Wagner of Globus, and Stephen Monk of Sandia National Laboratories. As a longtime Lustre user, the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility…
Jonathan Hines
January 4, 2017