It seems like not a week goes by without Whamcloud receiving requests from customers asking about Lustre training. And it’s also been the case recently that not a month goes by that we don’t offer training. This all seemed like a good excuse to write a bit about Whamcloud’s Lustre training. The Whamcloud training program [...]
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Lustre Development in High Gear
As it appeared during the bustle of SC11, this press release slipped under the radar for many, but its implications are huge. OpenSFS has already been active in funding future Lustre development but this latest contract acknowledges the amount of work it takes to integrate features developed in parallel, keep current with the latest Linux [...]
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 [...]
Agile in High Performance Computing (HPC) – Divide and Conquer
Project Management in High Performance Computing (HPC) projects doesn’t get enough attention. But it should. HPC is one of the most challenging software development environments. Extremely hard problems, very smart people. It’s hard to produce high quality code on time and on budget. To be successful it comes down to project management. We’ve tried numerous [...]
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 1.8.7-wc1 released
With all the excitement around the recent Lustre 2.1 release it would be easy to forget that the majority of production Lustre sites are still running Lustre 1.8.x releases. Lustre 1.8.x is still Whamcloud’s designated maintenance release stream and we have just issued our latest bugfix release – Lustre 1.8.7-wc1. This release removes the potential [...]
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,