Wow! LUG 2012 was held this past week in Austin, Texas, and… wow. There is so much energy and focus around Lustre right now, it’s extremely exciting to be a part of. We kicked LUG off with the DDN – Whamcloud Pre-LUG Party and packed the restaurant. The food was great, the conversations and interactions even [...]
Brent Gorda
Brent is CEO of Whamcloud, lives in the East Bay Area, loves his family and his road bike.
All Eyes on the Annual Lustre User Group
LUG 2012 is being held in Austin this year, Apr 23-25th, and naturally we’ll be there. Will you? It’s a mainline into all the smart people involved in Lustre. All contributions are welcome. It’s open source at its best. 2012 has been a big year for Lustre already. Lustre 2.2 is out. Three of the [...]
LUG, Chug, and Lustre 2.1.1
You’ve probably already made your decision whether you’re going to LUG 2012 in Austin, TX, Apr 23-25th this year. If you haven’t, please consider joining us as the Lustre community is growing and full of new energy. Early bird registration runs through March 9th. http://www.opensfs.org/lug/registration LUG is now in the second year of being fully [...]
The Maturation of the Lustre Community
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 [...]
Building the Lustre Ecosystem in 2012
Happy New Year! 2012, important on the Chinese calendar as the Year of the Dragon, is also going to be a very important year for Lustre development and growth. Whamcloud will, of course, continue putting our energy into the stable and active development of the technology. But we realize that fostering a larger ecosystem is [...]
Looking Back on SC11
Holiday greetings from Whamcloud! I have barely had time to catch my breath following this year’s Supercomputing 2011 in Seattle, but I wanted to pass on some of the enthusiasm and energy Whamcloud encountered at the show. Did you attend? Our booth was absolutely overflowing from start to finish. Thank you in particular to everyone [...]
Lustre Continues to Grow
Dear Friends, Greetings from Whamcloud and thank you for subscribing to this newsletter to follow our activities here. Since our last letter a tremendous amount of significant activity has gone on, as you will see when you read the enclosed. In the past two months alone, we have released Lustre version 1.8.6-wc and the community [...]
The State of the Lustre Community
A year ago the Lustre community was stunned by Oracle’s message at the 2010 Lustre User Group (LUG). Lustre was no longer a vendor neutral platform; you had to buy Sun/Oracle storage hardware to get future versions of the software. The community uproar was strong to the threat HPC’s most popular file system going away. [...]
Riding the Wave from ISC11!
Dear Friends, My last newsletter was written as I was literally packing my bag for International Supercomputing in Hamburg. I am now home, jetlag free, and thinking about our week in Germany and what a success it was. Have you had the chance to listen to the HPC wire post-ISC podcast? If not,
Why Lustre Is Set to Excel in Exascale
File systems are a critical component of the modern supercomputing architectural model. Tying together vast numbers of compute nodes to achieve the highest computational speeds depends on a set of robust, coordinated fire hoses of data to connect the compute to the storage. Just as the computational model has gone parallel, so too has the [...]