Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Dr. Stephen L. Scott
Stonecipher/Boeing Distinguished Professor of Computing
Computer Science & Electrical and Computer Engineering Departments
Tennessee Tech University (TTU)
&
Senior Research Scientist
System Research Team Lead
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
stephenscott@computer.org
Largest Multipurpose Science Laboratory
within the U.S. Department of Energy
• Privately managed for US DOE
• $1.1 billion budget
• 4000+ employees total
• 1500 scientists and engineers
• 3,000 research guests annually
• 30,000 visitors each year
• Total land area 58mi2 (150km2)
• Nation’s largest energy laboratory
• Nation’s largest science facility:
• The $1.4 billion Spallation Neutron Source
• Nation’s largest concentration of open source
materials research
• Nation’s largest open scientific computing facility
ORNL East Campus: Site of World Leading
Computing and Computational Sciences
Computational
Sciences Building
Systems
Research
Team
Research Office
Building
Engineering
Technology
Facility
Old Computational
Sciences Building
(until June 2003)
Joint Institute for
Computational Sciences
Research Support Center
(Cafeteria, Conference, Visitor) 3
#1. Jaguar(XT5)
224,162 cores 18,688 compute nodes 300TB memory 2.3 petaflops/s
#4. Kraken(XT5)
98,928 cores
8,256 compute nodes
192TB memory 1.03 petaflops/s
At Forefront in Scientific
Computing and Simulation
• Leading partnership in developing the National Leadership Computing Facility
− Leadership-class scientific computing capability
Capability Computing
Climate change
Nuclear astrophysics
Versus
Fusion energy
Materials sciences
Capacity Computing
• Attacking key computational challenges
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− Biology
• Providing access to computational resources through high-speed networking
(10Gbps)
Educational Opportunities with
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Dr. Stephen L. Scott
Stonecipher/Boeing Distinguished Professor of Computing
Computer Science & Electrical and Computer Engineering Departments
Tennessee Tech University (TTU)
&
Senior Research Scientist
System Research Team Lead
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
stephenscott@computer.org
http://www.orau.org/ornl
Science Undergraduate Laboratory Internship (SULI)
http://www.orau.gov/orise/edu/ornl/doeprog/
Higher Education Research Experiences (HERE)
http://www.orau.gov/hereatornl/
Educational Opportunities with
Tennessee Tech University
Dr. Stephen L. Scott
Stonecipher/Boeing Distinguished Professor of Computing
Computer Science & Electrical and Computer Engineering Departments
Tennessee Tech University (TTU)
&
Senior Research Scientist
System Research Team Lead
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
stephenscott@computer.org
Tennessee Tech University
www.tntech.edu
• Cookeville, Tennessee
− 75-min drive from Oak Ridge National Laboratory
− about 12,000 students
• College of Engineering
− Computer Science Department
• www.csc.tntech.edu
− Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
• www.tntech.edu/ece
− BS, MS, and PhD
• International affiliations
− France, Associative Team – INRIA, University of Rennes
− Others…
Tennessee Tech University
www.tntech.edu
• Graduate studies
− www.tntech.edu/graduatestudies
• Important dates
− Dec 3, 2010 – last day for US applicants to apply for Spring
2011 admission.
− Aug ?, 2011 – last day for US applicants to apply for Fall 2011
admission.
• Funding available
− Research Assistantships (RA)
− Summer Internships in conjunction with ORNL
• Located at both TTU and ORNL campus
Questions
Dr. Stephen L. Scott
Stonecipher/Boeing Distinguished Professor of Computing
Computer Science & Electrical and Computer Engineering Departments
Tennessee Tech University (TTU)
&
Senior Research Scientist
System Research Team Lead
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL)
stephenscott@computer.org