Lustre is one of those transformative technologies. It’s special. First and foremost, it’s open source and not beholden to one company. Second, it’s fantastic on the technical merits. It powers supercomputing sites around the world, and it’s the foundation for the next-gen exascale computers. Third, it’s efficient. You do not get to be the fastest [...]
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State of the Lustre Community 2013
The open source parallel file system Lustre is in a stronger position than it has ever been. Lustre has undeniable strengths in performance, scalability, and open, collaborative innovation. Because of this it is used in over 60% of the TOP100 supercomputing sites. But it was not an overnight success. It required a strong response from [...]
Whamcloud/Intel Announcement
When we started Whamcloud two years ago, we set out on a journey to embrace a key technology that we believed in and that the HPC community depended upon. We felt so strongly about this that without hesitation we quit our jobs and jumped in with both feet. Our founding principles included a deep commitment [...]
Project Manager as Master Facilitator
I recently read a brief article posted on the PMI® website about planning and facilitating requirements workshops. The article itself was cursory; good for the non-PM who might not realize that the average project manager job description really reads something like this: Physical Requirements: Primarily based in an office setting, most likely a cubicle, must [...]
European Supercomputing on Display at ISC ’12
European markets and partners are significant in the global supercomputing community. The main supercomputing technology show based in Europe, ISC’12, is just around the corner and it’s including a bigger offering of Lustre activities and information this year. Of course, Whamcloud will be there, talking Lustre. Plus, we’re demoing Chroma, our new management system deeply integrated with [...]
Lustre Community Shines Through at LUG 2012
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 [...]
How is my file system today?
This is a new era for Lustre. The user community is growing faster then ever, and even the development community is increasing. Community contributions accounted for nearly 20% of the changes in the recent Lustre 2.2 release. This is an unprecedented level of community contribution in a Lustre feature release. LUG 2012 video on Lustre [...]
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 [...]
Lustre Parallel Directory Operations Coming in Lustre 2.2
For many HPC applications, single directory write speed is critical for performance. In a typical use case, an application creates a separate output file for each node and task in a job, each of which must often be written to a single directory. As the number of nodes and tasks increase, hundreds of thousands of [...]
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 [...]