Lustre Publications

Informative sources regarding Lustre technology and its application.

You'll find user documentation along with videos and podcasts describing Lustre at a high-level, engineering presentations from Lustre engineers, and detailed descriptions of applications in blue prints and white papers produced by research organizations.

Presentations from Lustre Engineers, March 2008
Once a year, the Lustre Engineering team gathers to discuss new features under development and testing efforts. This week-long event is known as the Lustre all-hands meeting. The Development and QE presentations made at these all-hands meetings are available here.

Also available at Lustre All-Hands Meeting_3/08 and Lustre All-Hands Meeting_12/08.

Archive (Prior to 2003)
From CFS


 * 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