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About OLCF
- - ORNL’s supercomputing program grew from humble beginnings to deliver the most powerful system ever seen. On the way, it has helped researchers deliver practical breakthroughs and new scientific knowledge in climate, materials, nuclear science, and a wide range of other disciplines.
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OLCF Resources
- - Learn more about the OLCF’s comprehensive suite of hardware and software resources for the creation, manipulation, and retention of scientific data. For User support in using these resources, please visit the For Users section of this website.
- - Compute Systems
- - Data & Visualization Resources
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R&D Activities
- - Learn more about the OLCF’s comprehensive suite of hardware and software resources for the creation, manipulation, and retention of scientific data. Please note that the For Users section of this website provides extensive information on accessing and employing these resources.
- Close
Science at OLCF
- - The Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) engages a world-class team from national laboratories, research institutions, computing centers, universities, and vendors to take a dramatic step forward to field a new capability for high-end science.
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For Users
- - Contact Support
    
    Need assistance from a trained OLCF support staff member? We're here to help.
    
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    Submit a Support Ticket
    
    Call: 865.241.6536
    
    Email: help@olcf.ornl.gov
    
    Status Tweets: @olcfstatus
- - OLCF User Docs
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Spider

OLCF’s center-wide Lustre file system

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SPIDER, CENTER-WIDE LUSTRE FILE SYSTEM

The OLCF’s center-wide Lustre file system, called Spider, is the operational work file system for most OLCF computational resources. As an extremely high-performance system, Spider has over 20,000 clients, providing 32PB of disk space and can move data at more than 1TB/s. Spider comprises two filesystems, Atlas1 and Atlas2, in order to provide high availability and load balance across multiple metadata servers for increased performance.

Specifications and Features

Capacity: 32PB
Number of clients: 26,000+
Total OSTs: 2016
Default stripe count: 4
Default stripe size: 1MB
Available from: Titan, Rhea, Eos, Data Transfer Nodes

Latest Spider Articles

Storage System Infrastructure Upgrades Improve Performance, Data Security

May 5, 2015

High-Performance Storage System hardware changes lead to a four- to fivefold increase in data retrieval.

New Test Harness Keeps OLCF Resources Running Smoothly

February 10, 2015

The Need for Speed

January 2, 2014

Early science apps see serious speedups with Titan’s GPUs.

Titan Gets Computational Company

November 1, 2013

OLCF gains new systems and expands the resources available at the center.

OLCF Continues Education Leadership with Summer Students

September 5, 2013

Interns explore current and future technologies.