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 [...]
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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,
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 [...]
Lustre Rocks — and we are talking about it!
Dear Friends, I’m writing this as I’m getting ready to leave for Hamburg Germany for International Supercomputing. I am really looking forward to this show and the opportunity to meet with our European customers and partners to talk about Lustre and Whamcloud. Eric is arriving Saturday June 18th and I’m arriving Sunday June 19th. We [...]
Lustre User Group 2011
Dear Friends, Whamcloud was at the Lustre User Group (LUG) in Orlando, FL, last week, for the conference and several days of partners and customer meetings plus several all important evening get-togethers. Really there’s no substitute for sitting down with your peers, hearing new ideas, working through issues and planning for the future together. It [...]
Lustre 2.1 Release Notes
Dear Friends, As most of you know, Whamcloud has committed to build and support a community distribution of Lustre 2.1. We are lending a wide array of resources to the effort, but Lustre development will always be of the community, for the community. We want to make sure everyone knows about all the opportunities to [...]