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High Performance and Scalability

For the world's largest and most complex computing environments, the Lustre™ file system redefines high performance, scaling to tens of thousands of nodes and petabytes of storage with groundbreaking I/O and metadata throughput.

More on Lustre performance, service, and support at sun.com/lustre

Lustre 1.8.2 Lustre 1.8.2 is now GA and will soon be available for download (it is already available from the Lustre git repository). Lustre 1.8.2 introduces support for RHEL 5.4, offers several minor improvements (including 16TB LUN support), and provides a number of bug fixes, including the short read-ahead bug for 32-bit clients (see Bug 21506). Learn about the 1.8 family of features - Adaptive Timeouts, OSS Read Cache, OST Pools and Version-based Recovery and why you should upgrade.

Lustre User Group 2010 Plan to join us for LUG 2010 April 14-16 at the Seascape resort and conference center on Monterey Bay, California. Registration for LUG 2010 is now open.

LUG 2009 was our most successful Lustre user event to date. For presentations and videos, see Lustre User Group 2009.

Lustre 2.0 Alpha-6 Available We are pleased to announce that Lustre 2.0 Alpha-6 is available for download. This is the sixth step in a series of milestone based pre-releases as we move towards Lustre 2.0 GA. New milestone releases will be planned for every 4-6 weeks.

HPC Software Workshop and Seminar - Lustre Slides Slides from the presentations at the Lustre Advanced Seminar and Open Storage track at the Sun HPC Software Workshop held September 7-10 are posted here. Please consider joining the Sun Lustre team at SC09, November 14-20 in Portland, Oregon and also at LUG 2010, April 14-16 at Monterey Bay, California. Registration for LUG 2010 is now open.

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 Download Find out about released and pre-release versions of Lustre and download free open source software.  Get Lustre Lustre Support Matrix  

Learn Find out about Lustre current and upcoming features, roadmap, publications and training.  Lustre 1.8 Lustre 2.0 Roadmap  </li>

Use Access information about installing, configuring, administering and troubleshooting Lustre.  Lustre Quick Start</li> Install & Use Lustre</li> </ul> </li>

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Get Involved Find out about the Lustre User Group, community projects, Lustre Centers of Excellence and more.  LUG</li> LCEs</li> Mailing Lists</li> </ul> </li> </ul>