Lustre Publications

Caspur (CERN)

 * Slides in PDF format
 * Presented by Andrei Maslennikov, May 2005
 * we are doing poorly on 64k random reads, panasas does much better.

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.
 * docs on CUG site Paper Presentation


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

HEPiX Talks

 * Spring HEPiX 2007: April 23-27, 2007
 * Storage Evaluations at BNL
 * Presented by Robert Petkus - BNL
 * Performance comparison between ZFS, XFS and EXT3 (unfortunately not EXT4) on a Sun Thumper
 * Slides on HPPix site: Storage Evaluations at BNL


 * Lustre Experience at CEA/DIF
 * Presented by J-Ch Lafoucriere
 * Slides on HEPix site: Lustre Experience at CEA/DIF

Karlsruhe Lustre Talks

 * http://www.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de/dienste/lustretalks.php
 * Six talks in PDF
 * Einführungsveranstaltung im Rechenzentrum (2005): Karlsruhe0503.pdf
 * HP-CAST 4 in Krakau (10.5.2005): Karlsruhe0510.pdf
 * ISC 2005 in Heidelberg (24.6.2005): Karlsruhe0506.pdf
 * HP-CAST 5 in Seattle (11.11.2005): Karlsruhe0511.pdf
 * HP-CCN in Seattle (12.11.2005): Karlsruhe0512.pdf
 * 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

University of Boulder, Colorado

 * 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's the same as the attachment of 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

ORNL

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