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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
Science

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
Technology

Making Room for Frontier

One of the challenges of cutting-edge equipment at a cutting-edge laboratory is that when a problem arises, the answers are never straightforward. As the 2021 delivery date for Frontier -- ORNL's next supercomputer -- looms closer and closer, the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility is undergoing some major remodeling, including…
Will Wells
January 26, 2020
Sarp Oral enjoys challenges of designing a large-scale file systemPeople

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 McDowell
May 1, 2018
Technology

Protecting Big Data

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 Writer
November 6, 2013