Whamcloud distributes Lustre, and provides Lustre support and services. Visit our Release Downloads Tree to start using Lustre now. These are the most stable releases of Lustre and associated software.
You can also visit our Community Page. This has everything Lustre that you need to know.
- Contracted Lustre support with Whamcloud, how to access, and how to get help.
- Software builds
- Support through the Lustre community
- Commentary on problems solved in each release
Whamcloud and Lustre
Review our Whamcloud Overview and our Lustre Datasheet. You can also look into our Maximize the Value of Storage Systems brochure.
Whamcloud White Papers, Presentations and Case Studies
Please register to download our white papers, see staff talks and presentations, and other technical information.
Chroma Brochure (PDF)
Covers the key features and benefits of Chroma, Whamcloud’s enterprise platform for large scale, high bandwidth storage needs. 2-page brochure.
The State of Lustre (PDF by Intersect360 Research)
Analyst presentation on HPC parallel files systems and Lustre adoption trends. 7-slides.
Whamcloud Case Study DownUnder GeoSolutions (PDF)
Case study covering DownUnder GeoSolutions, a geosciences company based in Perth, Australia. They replaced NFS with Lustre to handle scalability issues on commodity hardware clusters. 3-pages.
Lustre Parallel Directory Operations (White Paper)
The single lock functionality for an entire directory in Lustre used to limit file writes to a directory to serialized access. Whamcloud has eliminated this bottleneck by introducing a parallel locking mechanism for the entire directory. This capability, called parallel directory operations (PDO), enables multiple metadata service threads to concurrently perform lookup, create, and unlink operations on a single directory. 5-pages.
Developing Lustre in the HPC Community (White Paper)
This white paper describes some of the challenges facing the Lustre community in maintaining Lustre as a production-quality file system while enhancing it to meet the demands of exascale computing. 6-pages.
Lustre OSS and MDS Server Node Requirements (White Paper)
This paper gives Whamcloud recommendations regarding specifications for Lustre OSS and MDS server nodes. These recommendations are based on use with Lustre 1.8.X and Lustre 2.0 releases. 4-pages.
Introduction to Lustre (PDF)
Overview of Lustre with network topology, a support matrix, and some basic performance results. 2-page brochure.
HPC Videos and General Information
Introduction to Lustre, HPC Advisory Council, Switzerland Workshop, March 2011 (Video)
insideHPC interview with Whamcloud CEO Brent Gorda (Video)
What is High Performance Computing?
What is the Problem with I/O and File Systems?
File System Characteristics
The Lustre System: Philosophy, Status, and Planned Developments