OLCF staff delivered talks and tutorials to Lustre users covering the center’s on-going contributions to the effort to expand the parallel file system’s performance and flexibility.
Jonathan HinesMay 10, 2016
The OLCF will support a new service, Spark On-Demand, that enables users to instantiate Apache Spark to conduct in situ data analysis on OLCF compute resources.
Miki NolinMarch 29, 2016
Recently, a cross-departmental team engaged in an ongoing process to make data transfer easier for OLCF users.
Jeff GaryJanuary 26, 2016
ORNL and the OLCF once again took leadership roles at SC15, the 27th meeting of the annual supercomputing conference.
Miki NolinDecember 8, 2015
Sreenivas Rangan Sukumar is the new Group Leader for the Advanced Data and Workflow Group.
Jeff GaryOctober 13, 2015
For OLCF users, managing cache behavior has gotten a little easier thanks to the newly developed tool GLprof.
Jeremy RumseyJuly 29, 2015
Researchers at the OLCF are working to speed up the process of data transfer using a new tool.
Eric GedenkJuly 7, 2015
The OLCF played a significant role in an ORNL event to share knowledge and discuss the future development of the parallel file system, Lustre.
OLCF Staff WriterMay 21, 2015
OLCF staff have invested heavily in making sure users can access data quickly while also taking steps to keep data safe.
Eric GedenkMay 5, 2015
The OLCF’s RAIT system allows incoming data to be striped across four tapes, but it also has an extra tape—called a parity tape—that can allow the data to be reconstructed in the event that a tape is damaged or lost.
Eric GedenkMay 5, 2015
For many researchers, Titan is only part of the picture; managing and understanding data are quickly becoming as important as the simulations that create it.
Scott JonesNovember 11, 2014
A new data quality assurance tool developed by the Technology Integration Group at the OLCF will help protect that data by validating the integrity of the High Performance Storage System (HPSS) archive.
Jeff GaryNovember 11, 2014
The Joint Facilities User Forum on Data-Intensive Computing brought together users and HPC center staff to discuss approaches to handling data, best practices, and the future of data-driven scientific discovery.
Jeff GaryJuly 23, 2014
The PanDA collaboration holds potential benefits for OLCF as well as for ATLAS.
Leo WilliamsMay 6, 2014
The Oak Ridge Leadership Computing’s Sudharshan Vazhkudai, working with colleagues at ORNL, North Carolina State University (NCSU) and Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI), has taken a step toward solving a key storage bottleneck.
OLCF Staff WriterApril 11, 2014
When the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility upgraded its Jaguar supercomputer to the Cray XK7 CPU/GPU hybrid system known as Titan, the center knew that upgrades to its data analysis and visualization resources were necessary to complement Titan’s more than 20 petaflops of computing power.
Scott JonesMarch 18, 2014
At the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF), users on the world’s most powerful supercomputer for open science, Titan, are routinely producing tens or hundreds of terabytes of data, and many predict their needs will multiply significantly in the next 5 years.
OLCF Staff WriterFebruary 14, 2014
The OLCF recently relocated the center’s archive tape library to a centralized location with a more controlled environment, resulting in better overall availability and uptime for OLCF system users and better resiliency of the media.
OLCF Staff WriterNovember 6, 2013
A team of researchers led by the OLCF’s Scott Klasky received an R&D 100 Award for the development of the Adaptable I/O System for Big Data, or ADIOS.
Scott JonesJuly 23, 2013
