Lustre Publications

CFS

 * Selecting a cluster file system
 * Nov 2005


 * Lustre state and production installations
 * Presentation on gelato.org meeting
 * May 2004


 * Lustre File System 
 * A presentation on the state of Lustre in mid-2003 and the path towards Lustre1.0.
 * Summer 2003


 * Lustre: Building a cluster file system for 1,000 node clusters
 * A technical presentation about our successes and mistakes during 2002-2003.
 * Summer 2003


 * Lustre: Scalable Clustered Object Storage
 * A technical presentation on Lustre.
 * June 2002


 * Lustre - the inter-galactic cluster file system?
 * A technical overview of Lustre from 2002.
 * June 2002


 * Lustre Light: a simpler fully functional cluster file system
 * September 2001


 * Lustre System Anatomy
 * Lustre component overview.


 * Lustre: the intergalactic file system for the international labs?
 * Presentation for Linux World and elsewhere on Lustre and Next-Generation Data Centers
 * June 2001


 * The object-based storage cluster file systems and parallel I/O
 * Sandia presentation on Lustre and Linux clustering


 * Linux clustering and storage management
 * Powerpoint slides of an overview of cluster and OBD technology


 * Lustre Technical Project Summary
 * A Lustre roadmap presented to address the Tri-Labs/DOD SGS File System RFP.
 * July 2001


 * File Systems for Clusters from a Protocol Perspective
 * A comparative description of several distributed file systems.
 * Proc. Second Extreme Linux Topics Workshop, Monterey CA, June 1999.


 * CMU NASD project


 * Working draft T10 OSD
 * A standards effort exists in the T10 OSD working group proposal.
 * October 2000

Cray User Group

 * Guidelines for Efficient Parallel I/O on the Cray XT3/XT4 
 * Jeff Larkin, Mark Fahey, proceedings of CUG2007
 * Paper in PDF format


 * XT7? Integrating and Operating a Conjoined XT3+XT4 System
 * Presentation: Presented by ORNL on CUG 2007
 * Paper:This paper describes the processes and tools used to move production work from the pre-existing XT3 to the new system incorporating that same XT3, including novel application of Lustre routing capabilities.


 * Using IOR to Analyze the I/O Performance
 * Presented by Hongzhang Shan,John Shalf (NERSC) on CUG 2007
 * Slides in PDF format


 * A Center-Wide File System using Lustre
 * Shane Canon, H.Sharp Oral, proceedings of CUG2006
 * Paper in PDF format

DDN

 * Best Practices for Architecting a Lustre-Based Storage Environment
 * March, 2008
 * Download whitepaper from DDN site

HEPiX Talks

 * Lustre cluster in production at GSI
 * Presented by SCHöN, Walter
 * May, 2008
 * Slides


 * Final Report from File Systems Working Group
 * May, 2008
 * Presented by MASLENNIKOV, Andrei
 * Full Report


 * Setting up a simple Lustre Filesystem
 * Presented by WIESAND, Stephan
 * May, 2008
 * Slides


 * Storage Evaluations at BNL
 * Presented by Robert Petkus - BNL
 * April 23-27, 2007
 * Performance comparison between ZFS, XFS and EXT3 on a Sun Thumper
 * Slides in PDF format
 * Slides on HPPix site: Storage Evaluations at BNL


 * Lustre Experience at CEA/DIF
 * Presented by J-Ch Lafoucriere
 * April 23-27, 2007
 * Slides in PDF format
 * Slides on HEPix site: Lustre Experience at CEA/DIF

Indiana University

 * Wide Area Filesystem Performance using Lustre on the TeraGrid
 * TeraGrid 2007 conference, June 2007
 * Paper in PDF format

Karlsruhe Lustre Talks

 * http://www.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de/dienste/lustretalks.php
 * Filesystems on SSCK's HP XC6000
 * Einführungsveranstaltung im Rechenzentrum (2005): Karlsruhe0503.pdf
 * Experiences & Performance of SFS/Lustre Cluster File System in Production
 * HP-CAST 4 in Krakau (10.5.2005): Karlsruhe0510.pdf
 * Experiences with HP SFS/Lustre in HPC Production
 * ISC 2005 in Heidelberg (24.6.2005): Karlsruhe0506.pdf
 * Experiences with 10 Months HP SFS/Lustre in HPC Production
 * HP-CAST 5 in Seattle (11.11.2005): Karlsruhe0511.pdf
 * Performance Monitoring in a HP SFS Environment
 * HP-CCN in Seattle (12.11.2005): Karlsruhe0512.pdf
 * Experiences with HP SFS/Lustre at SSCK
 * SGPFS 5 in Stuttgart (4.4.2006): Karlsruhe0604.pdf

Ohio State University

 * Benefits of High Speed Interconnects to Cluster File Systems: A Case Study with Lustre
 * Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, 2006. IPDPS 2006.
 * Lustre performance comparison when using InfiniBand and Quadrics interconnects
 * Paper in PDf format
 * Download paper at OSU site

ORNL

 * Exploiting Lustre File Joining for Effective Collective IO
 * Paper in pdf format
 * Proceedings of the CCGrid'07, May 2007.

SUN

 * Tokyo Tech Tsubame Grid Storage Implementation
 * By Syuuichi Ihara, May 2007
 * Paper in pdf format
 * Sun BluePrints Publications

Synopsys

 * Optimizing Storage and I/O For Distributed Processing On Enterprise & High Performance Compute(HPC)Systems For Mask Data Preparation Software (CATS)
 * Glenn Newell, Sr.IT Solutions Mgr,
 * Naji Bekhazi,Director Of R&D,Mask Data Prep (CATS)
 * Ray Morgan,Sr.Product Marketing Manager,Mask Data Prep(CATS)
 * 2007
 * paper in pdf format

TeraGrid

 * Wide Wrea Filesystem Performance Using Lustre on the TeraGrid
 * Teragrid 2007 Conference, Madison,WI'''
 * Paper in PDF format

University of Colorado, Boulder

 * Shared Parallel Filesystem in Heterogeneous Linux Multi-Cluster Environment
 * Paper in PDF format
 * proceedings of the 6th LCI International Conference on Linux Clusters: The HPC Revolution (2005)
 * The management issues mentioned in the last part of this paper have been addressed.
 * Paper at CU site (It is the same as the attachment to the LCI paper above.)

University of Minnesota

 * Coordinating Parallel Hierarchical Storage Management in Object-base Cluster File Systems
 * MSST2006, Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies (May 2006)
 * Paper in PDF format