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Fisk Junior Working to Make Jaguar Purr: Computer science major spending summer at NCCS through RAMS program
Fisk University junior Joylika Adams is working to make the NCCS’s premier Jaguar
supercomputer the most effective tool possible.
Adams, a major in computer science, is working with Mark Fahey of the NCCS’s Scientific Computing Group through the Research Alliance in Math and Science (RAMS). Her work promises to help Jaguar users by identifying the most effective methods for performing input and output on the system.
The RAMS program works with universities to provide opportunities for underrepresented minorities and promote diversity within computational science. Fisk has been a long-time participant in the program, according to ORNL principal investigator Debbie McCoy, and university faculty regularly have summer appointments at ORNL.
While Adams’s summer project focuses on Jaguar’s Cray XT3/XT4 architecture, Fahey noted that some of the information she is developing might well be useful in any high-speed file system.