GetInvolved:Get Involved

Find out what the Lustre™ community is doing and get involved.

Community Events and Resources


 * Sign up for a Lustre mailing list.
 * Access presentations from Lustre community events, conferences and meetings.
 * Find out how to contribute code or help with testing.
 * Read publications about Lustre such as videos and podcasts, white papers and blueprints.
 * Learn about some typical Lustre Customers.
 * Sign up for Sun HPC News for articles, tips and reviews of interest to the HPC community.

Lustre Centers of Excellence

Lustre Centers of Excellence (LCEs) work with Sun to make significant code and testing contributions to Lustre and the Lustre Community. In alphabetical order, these centers are:

 CEA, HPC at CEA and [[Media:AurelienDegremont.pdf|Lustre HSM Project at CEA]] Juelich and the JuRoPA Program  Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory [[Media:JamesHoffman.pdf|Naval Research Laboratory]]  Oak Ridge National Laboratory [[Media:SNL_LUG_2009.pdf|Sandia National Laboratory]] 

Community Development Projects Interesting projects from the Lustre user community that are available for public use.


 * [[Media:Lustre-amanda.pdf|Backup and Recovery - Amanda and Lustre:]] Use an Amanda client to back up a Lustre filesystem from Lustre clients.(PDF)
 * LLNL - Lustre Monitoring Tool Tracks activity of server nodes (MDS, OSS and portals routers) for one or more Lustre filesystems.
 * Bull - Open Source Tools for Lustre Manage one or more Lustre filesystems from an administrative node.
 * CEA Administration Tool for Lustre 1.6 Set up and manage a Lustre filesystem on a cluster.

Third Party Contributions

Topics contributed by the Lustre user community.


 * Using Pacemaker with Lustre describes how to configure and use Pacemaker with Lustre failover.
 * DRBD and Lustre describes the Distributed Replicated Block Device used for building high-availability clusters.
 * Lustre FUSE describes how to use Lustre with the FUSE file system.
 * Lustre DDN Tuning describes how to configure DDN storage arrays for use with Lustre.
 * Large-Scale Tuning for Cray XT describes network tuning parameters for request pools in a large cluster of Cray XT3 Catamount nodes.
 * Debian Install describes how to build and install Lustre on a machine running Debian Linux.
 * NFS vs. Lustre describes some of the history and rationale behind Lustre and NFS and compares and contrasts them.