BLOOMINGTON, Ind.—Lustre is the file system of choice for the majority of the world’s most powerful supercomputers, helping researchers extract knowledge from data to drive discovery around the world. Today, the nonprofit organization dedicated to the success of the Lustre file system, Open Scalable File Systems Inc., or OpenSFS, announces organizational changes to...
In this podcast, Norm Morse from OpenSFS looks back on the past year’s developments in the Lustre community and provides an preview of the upcoming LUG 2013 conference in San Diego April 16-18. LUG is always about a real exchange of ideas. The LUG program committee would like to invite members of the Lustre community to submit presentation abstracts for inclusion in...
Today OpenSFS announced the expansion of the Lustre User Group (LUG) conferences to the Asia-Pacific Region (APAC). The first Asian LUGs will take place in Beijing, China, on October 15, 2013, followed by Tokyo, Japan, on October 17, 2013. There’s really no substitute for face-to-face technical discussions with plenty of chance for in depth back-and-forth...
Today at LUG 2014, Ken Claffey from Xyratex/Seagate announced that the company is donating the Lustre.org domain back the user community. As you may recall Xyratex acquired the Lustre trademark and other assets from Oracle last year. Oracle owned the assets as a result of acquiring Sun Microsystems in 2010, but the company was not interested in the HPC market. From...
In this video from LUG 2014, Galen Shipmen from OpenSFS, Ken Claffey from Xyratex, and Hugo Falter from EOFS discuss the recent announcement that Seagate has donated Lustre.org back to the user community. From my perspective, this move is a great indication that Seagate intends to be an active, contributing member of the Lustre community. After years of upheaval...