Pioneering Frontier: Automating at Exascale

Pioneering Frontier: Automating at Exascale

The “Pioneering Frontier” series features stories profiling the many talented ORNL employees behind the construction and operation of the OLCF’s incoming exascale supercomputer, Frontier. The HPE Cray system was delivered in 2021, with full user operations expected in 2022. Rafael Ferreira da Silva’s job is to make life simple—at least for…

Betsy SonewaldJuly 25, 2022

People Science

Rafael Ferreira da Silva Elevated to IEEE Senior Member

Rafael Ferreira da Silva, a senior research scientist in the Data Lifecycle and Scalable Workflows group at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), has been elevated to the grade of senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Senior members must have at least 10 years of…

Betsy SonewaldJuly 25, 2022

People Technology

International Volunteer Team of Researchers Launch Groundbreaking Workflows Community Platform

A volunteer team of researchers led by Rafael Ferreira da Silva of the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and Kyle Chard of the University of Chicago (UChicago) has launched the Workflows Community Initiative (WCI), a platform that aims to provide a centralized source for resources, training,…

Betsy SonewaldMarch 23, 2022

Technology

OLCF Offers New Workload Capabilities with Slate Service

The large scientific simulations users at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) run on the center’s IBM AC922 Summit supercomputer almost always require other attendant tasks to fully realize their scientific impact. Resources for these additional “workflow” tasks can be scarce, and pushing this work to the login or…

Rachel McDowellMarch 27, 2020

workflows