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Frontier Job-Centric Telemetry Dataset

    Leah Huk | Oak Ridge National Laboratory
    Rachel Palumbo | Oak Ridge National Laboratory
    Ryan Adamson | Oak Ridge National Laboratory
    Tim Osborne | Oak Ridge National Laboratory
    Corwin Lester | Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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Description

Comprehensive analysis of high-performance computing (HPC) systems requires linking workload execution to system behavior. This kind of analysis is vital for diagnosing performance issues, managing capacity, detecting anomalous workloads, and understanding how applications interact with system hardware. This job-centric telemetry dataset unifies scheduler job records with node-level measurements, enabling direct association between workloads and their corresponding power, thermal, and performance characteristics. It contains sanitized, scheduler related metadata for 152,400 individual jobs that ran on the Frontier supercomputer and ended on selected days throughout 2024 and 2025, a subpopulation of ~6.8% of the total number of allocated jobs with non-zero run time on the system over that same period. Each is linked with files that contain telemetry time series records of the power utilization and temperature behavior of its allocated nodes and their processors during the run time of the job. Where available, a portion of the job files also contain network performance time series. Jobs are sampled from select days that reflect normal levels of user activity and possess job size distributions with large numbers of leadership class jobs (>20% of Frontier nodes). Jobs in this dataset attempt to best represent successful user workflows.

Funding Information

DOE Contract Number

AC05-00OR22725

Originating Research Organization

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Sponsoring Organization

Office of Science (SC)

Project Identifier

STF025

Details

Release Date

September 2, 2026

Subject

MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING, ENERGY CONSERVATION, CONSUMPTION, AND UTILIZATION

Keywords

High-performance Computing, User Behavior, Power Measurements, system power and thermal

Dataset

Dataset Type

ND Numeric Data

Software

The data is in parquet format. Tools that can read compressed Apache Parquet files are required. If using python the recommended packages are: pyarrow, polars, dask, pandas.

Cite This Dataset:

Huk, L., Palumbo, R., Adamson, R., Osborne, T., Lester, C. (2026). Frontier Job-Centric Telemetry Dataset. Oak Ridge National Laboratory. https://doi.org/10.13139/OLCF/3013979.

Acknowledgements

This research used resources of the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, which is supported by the Advanced Scientific Computing Research programs in the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC05-00OR22725.