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The Lustre™ file system redefines I/O performance and scalability standards for the world’s largest and most complex computing environments. Ideally suited for data-intensive applications that require the highest possible I/O performance, Lustre is an object-based cluster file system that scales to tens of thousands of nodes and petabytes of storage with groundbreaking I/O and metadata throughput.

Interoperability, Features and Roadmap

These resources detail Lustre releases and plans.


 * Lustre Release Information lists current Lustre releases and supported kernels and networks for these releases.


 * Lustre 1.8 describes features and benefits offered by upgrading to Lustre 1.8.


 * Lustre 2.0 describes features being developed for the next-generation release of Lustre.


 * Lustre Roadmap provides estimated code freeze and GA dates for upcoming releases.

Publications

Use these resources to learn about Lustre.


 * Lustre Presentations by Lustre engineers at Lustre User Group meetings, conferences, Lustre all-hands meetings, and other Lustre-related events.


 * Lustre Publications from a variety of sources, including links to videos and podcasts, white papers and blueprints.


 * Lustre Operations Manual, the primary source for Lustre user documentation.

Lustre Projects and Future Features

To learn about active Lustre projects that span releases or features that are not in Lustre 1.8 or Lustre 2.0, see Lustre Projects.

Training and Internals

Lustre training is available from Sun Microsystems.


 * Lustre training, Administering Lustre Based Clusters (CL-400), is available from Sun Microsystems at locations in the United States, Great Britain, Germany, and APAC countries.


 * Lustre Internals (formerly part of Lustre advanced training) cover complex, code-level transactions.

Implementing Applications in a Lustre Environment contains information on achieving high performance applications IO with the Lustre file system.