Topic: Storage, File Systems, and I/O

Highlights include complex simulation codes, uncertainty quantification, discrete event simulation, and the Unify file system.

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“If applications don’t read and write files in an efficient manner,” system software developer Elsa Gonsiorowski warns, “entire systems can crash.”

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Livermore Computing staff is enhancing the high-speed InfiniBand data network used in many of its high performance computing and file systems.

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Spindle improves the library-loading performance of dynamically linked HPC applications by plugging into the system’s dynamic linker and intercepting its file operations.

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Fast Global File Status (FGFS) is an open-source package that provides scalable mechanisms and programming interfaces to retrieve global information of a file.

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Working extensively with open-source software such as Lustre and engaging with the broader open-source community is what computer scientist Chris Morrone enjoys most about his job, and it is one of the features that attracted him to LLNL in the first place.

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