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What is Lustre®?

Lustre® is a scalable, secure, robust, highly-available cluster file system. It is designed, developed and maintained by Cluster File Systems, Inc.

The central goal is the development of a next-generation cluster file system which can serve clusters with 10,000's of nodes, provide petabytes of storage, and move 100's of GB/sec with state-of-the-art security and management infrastructure.

Lustre runs on many of the largest Linux clusters in the world, and is included by CFS's partners as a core component of their cluster offering (examples include HP StorageWorks SFS, and the Cray XT3 and XD1 supercomputers). Today's users have also demonstrated that Lustre scales down as well as it scales up, and runs in production on clusters as small as 4 and as large as 25,000 nodes.

The latest version of Lustre is always available from Cluster File Systems, Inc. Public Open Source releases of Lustre are available under the GNU General Public License. These releases are found here, and are used in production supercomputing environments worldwide.

To be informed of Lustre releases, subscribe to the lustre-announce mailing list.

Lustre development would not have been possible without funding and guidance from many organizations, including several U.S. National Laboratories, early adopters, and product partners.

User Resources

• Lustre Downloads
• Lustre Quick Start
• Mailing Lists
• Lustre Operations Manual
• Filing Bugs
• Lustre Knowledge Base

Advanced User Resources

• How to build Lustre
• Kerberos
• Lustre Tuning
• LustreProc - A guide on the proc tunable parameters for Lustre and their usage. It describes several of the proc tunables including those that effect the client's RPC behavior and prepare for a substantial reorganization of proc entries.
• Liblustre HowTo

Lustre Centres of Excellence™

• ORNL
• CEA
• LLNL
• PSC
• Tsinghua

Developer Resources

• Lustre Architecture
• Contribution Policy
• Developer Mailing List
• CVS usage
  • CVS access to Lustre Source
  • CVS Branches - How to manage branches with CVS.
  • CVS Tips - Helpful things to know while using Lustre CVS.
• Debugging Lustre - A guide to debugging Lustre.
• ZFS Resources - Learn about ZFS.
• Coding Guidelines - Developer guidelines to avoid problems during Lustre code merges.
• Portals Ping Server Client - Kernel modules used to test basic message passing of ports.

CFS Development Projects

• I/O Performance
• Lustre OSS/MDS with ZFS DMU

Community Development Projects

• Networking Development
• Diskless Booting
• DRBD and Lustre
• Bull- Open Source tools for Lustre
• LLNL- Lustre Monitoring Tool

Other Resources

• Lustre Publications - Papers and presentations about Lustre
• Lustre User Group
  • Lustre User Group 2008 - coming soon
  • Lustre User Group 2007
  • Lustre User Group 2006
  • LUG Requirements Forum - LUG-Requirements-060420-final.pdf | LUG-Requirements-060420-final.xls