Forging a File System

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 LakinMarch 30, 2023

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NCCS’ James Simmons Recognized as Top Lustre Contributor of the Decade

James Simmons has contributed to the Lustre code base for ten years, contributing more than 250,000 lines of code to benefit the entire Lustre community. 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…

Rachel McDowellSeptember 23, 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 McDowellJune 12, 2019

Sarp Oral enjoys challenges of designing a large-scale file system

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Faces of Summit: Tackling Storage

Sarp Oral, the storage team lead for the TechInt group at the OLCF, works with other storage team members to deliver a file system that meets the requirements for reliability, capacity, and performance. The Faces of Summit series shares stories of the people behind America’s top supercomputer for open science,…

Rachel McDowellMay 1, 2018

Technology

Out with the Old, in with the New

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.

OLCF Staff WriterJanuary 2, 2014

Technology

Supersizing Spider

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.

OLCF Staff WriterAugust 14, 2013

Technology

Lustre File System Named A Top Trend

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).

OLCF Staff WriterFebruary 6, 2012

Technology

OpenSFS Continues Support for Lustre File System at the OLCF

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.

OLCF Staff WriterDecember 1, 2011

Technology

As Supercomputers Approach Exascale, Experts Wrestle with Big Data

In this interview, Galen Shipman, who heads OLCF’s Technology Integration group, discusses the challenges of managing big data.

Dawn LevyJuly 16, 2011

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