First off, a quick note of congratulations to Eric Barton, our CTO and my good friend and partner. He was selected by HPCwire as one of their “People to Watch” in 2012. “Barton’s leadership role at Whamcloud and in the Lustre User Groups, and through supporting community organizations such as OpenSFS and EOFS, has contributed greatly to the future of Lustre for 2012 and beyond.” We here at Whamcloud already knew that, but it’s nice to see it publicly acknowledged. We’re definitely going to keep our eye on him.
Lustre’s a great technology to be involved in these days. It has a lot of momentum behind it. This year will see major new systems coming online at unprecedented scale and performance. Due to personal involvement over the years, I am especially excited to see Sequoia come online. It’s a 20 petaFLOPS (peak) system based on IBM BlueGene/Q technology at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). At Oakridge National Laboratory (ORNL), they are upgrading Jaguar with GPGPUs to 9x its current performance to the same 20 petaFLOPS (peak). And Blue Waters at the University of Illinois, in the news due to the switch from IBM to Cray, will come online with a performance of over 11 petaFLOPS (peak).
Guess what core file system technology provides the foundation for these massive systems? In all three cases, it’s Lustre.
The momentum is exciting, and we’re not the only ones talking about it.
Good Words in the News
In his year end podcast, Addison Snell, CEO of Intersect360 Research, proclaimed, “The maturation of the Lustre community, anchored by OpenSFS and Whamcloud, was the most significant trend in HPC in 2011.”
At SC11, Peter Ungaro, CEO of Cray, in the Analyst Crossfire, in choosing the most important trends for the year, stated “…the winner is Lustre.”
Gregory Keller, HPC architect from RSystems, recently tweeted “Whamcloud Lustre is simply amazing. It is the fall guy in front of a lot of bad Hardware, and it lands with grace nearly every time.”
And, Jay Boisseau, Director, Texas Advanced Computing Center, The University of Texas at Austin, answering the question about what trends were significant in 2011, named Lustre as one of the two important trends he sees: “The ‘stabilization’ and positioning for growth of Lustre.”
We’d love to get you involved with this powerful and useful technology. Contact us directly to learn how you can be involved. info@whamcloud.com
Go Lustre!
Brent
Media Links
HPCwire People to Watch 2012 – Eric Barton, Chief Technical Officer and Co-founder, Whamcloud, Inc.
http://www.hpcwire.com/specialfeatures/people_to_watch_2012/EricBarton.html
http://www.hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2012-01-24/hpcwire_announces_2012_people_to_watch_.html
ISGTW From 2011 to 2012 – Experts reflect on the past and future
http://www.isgtw.org/feature/2011-2012-experts-reflect-past-and-future
insideHPC Agile Project Management Reaps On-Time Code Delivery at Whamcloud
http://insidehpc.com/2012/01/17/agile-project-management-reaps-on-time-delivery-at-whamcloud/
ISC blog ISC Top Three Insights
http://www.isc-events.com/isc12/isc_blog/items/ISC_Top_Three_Insights.html
Analyst Crossfire Wrapup Show at SC11 (Ungara’s comment at 29:05)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2x9xb4jKaJU
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