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 …
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The National Center for Computational Sciences’ (NCCS’s) James Simmons was recognized by the Open Scalable File Systems, Inc. (OpenSFS) organization at the virtual user meeting on September 9 as the …
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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, …
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The Faces of Summit series shares stories of the people behind America’s top supercomputer for open science, the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility’s Summit. The IBM AC922 machine launched in …
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The OLCF has introduced the next generation of data management with Atlas, a new center-wide file system that delivers increased capacity, greater performance, and a new directory structure for OLCF computational users.
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The new system will feature 32 petabytes of storage and an aggregate bandwidth of 1TB/second, allowing it to better keep pace with the OLCF’s Titan.
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Community development of the Lustre file system was named one of HPCwire.com’s most important trends in 2011. This came as no surprise to the computational science community at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).
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The future looks bright for the Lustre parallel file system. In August, OpenSFS and software developer Whamcloud agreed on key improvements to the open-source software system, resulting in a $2.1 million, multi-year contract.
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In this interview, Galen Shipman, who heads OLCF’s Technology Integration group, discusses the challenges of managing big data.
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