High-Performance Computing Research Internship and Appointment Opportunities at Oak Ridge National Laboratory Dr. Christian Engelmann Computer Science and Mathematics Division Oak Ridge National Laboratory •  Privately managed for US DOE • Nation’s largest energy laboratory •  $1.4 billion budget • Nation’s largest science facility: •  4600+ employees total • The $1.4 billion Spallation Neutron Source •  3,000 research guests annually • Nation’s largest concentration of open source •  30,000 visitors each year materials research •  Total land area 58mi2 (150km2) • Nation’s largest scientific computing facility   40,000 ft2 (3700 m2) computer center:  36-in (~1 m) raised floor, 18 ft (5.5 m) deck-to-deck  36 MW of power with 6,600 t of redundant cooling  High-ceiling area for visualization lab: 35 MPixel PowerWall   5 systems in the Top 500 List of Supercomputer Sites:   1. Jaguar XT5: Cray XT5, with 224,162 processor cores at 2,331 TFlop/s peak   3. Kraken: Cray XT5, with 98,928 processor cores at 1,028 TFlop/s peak   16. Jaguar XT4: Cray XT4, with 30,976 processor cores at 260 TFlop/s peak   30. Athena: Cray XT4, with 17,956 processor cores at 165 TFlop/s peak  370. Eugene: IBM BGP, with 8,192 processor cores at 28 TFlop/s peak 4/47  Leading partnership in developing the National Leadership Computing Facility  Leadership-class scientific computing capability  Currently planning for 10-20 PFlop/s in 2012  On the path toward:   100 PFlop/s in 2015 ( 10- 100 million cores)  1,000 PFlop/s in 2018 (100-1,000 million cores)  Attacking key computational challenges  Climate change  Nuclear astrophysics  Fusion energy  Materials sciences  Biology  Providing access to computational resources through high-speed networking Advanced Fault Tolerance Solutions for High Performance Computing Computer Science Research Groups •  Computer Science and Mathematics (CSM) Division. - Applied research focused on computational sciences, intelligent systems, and information technologies. •  CSM Research Groups: - Climate Dynamics - Complex Systems - Computational Chemical Sciences - Computational Materials Science - Future Technologies - Statistics and Data Science - Computational Mathematics - Computer Science Research (23 researchers & postdocs) 6/19 Computer Science Research Group Projects •  Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM) •  MPI Specification, FT-MPI and Open MPI •  Common Component Architecture (CCA) •  Open Source Cluster Application Resources (OSCAR) •  Scalable cluster tools (C3) •  Scalable Systems Software (SSS) •  Fault-tolerant metacomputing (HARNESS) •  High availability and resilience (RAS, FAST-OS 1 & 2) •  Super-scalable algorithms research •  Distributed file and storage systems (Freeloader) 7/19 MSc Internship Basics •  1-2 students (max. 4) for max. 6 months at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA •  Full-time (40 hours/5 days per week) internship supervised by a research staff member •  Individual leading-edge projects that include background investigation, design, and development •  Includes MSc thesis and draft research paper write-up as part of the final MSc project •  $1500 per month stipend plus travel costs depending on student qualifications •  Subcontracts through the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA 8/19 MSc Internship Timeline (Spring) •  Early Dec.: Application process Specify area of interest/project Submit resume/CV to Vassil •  Dec./Jan.: Acceptance notification Background Check/Subcontracts J-1 (Student) Visa application •  February: Visa issued through U.S. Embassy •  1. March: Start of internship •  31. August: End of internship •  September: Presentation at the University of Reading 9/19 MSc Internship Timeline (Fall) •  Early June: Application process Specify area of interest/project Submit resume/CV to Vassil •  Mid June: Acceptance notification Background check/subcontracts J-1 (Student) visa application •  August: Visa issued through U.S. Embassy •  1. September: Start of internship •  28. February: End of internship •  March: Presentation at the University of Reading 10/19