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|[http://www.rce-cast.com/index.php/Podcast/rce-14-lustre-cluster-filesystem.html '''RCE 14: Lustre Cluster File System''']|| Research Computing and Engineering interview with Andreas Dilger, one of the principal file system architects for the Lustre file system.||2009 | |||
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|[http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid1640183659?bctid=8899392001 '''Linux HPC Software Stack''']||Sun Systems Engineer Larry McIntosh provides an overview of Sun HPC software reference stack for Lustre.||2008 | |[http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid1640183659?bctid=8899392001 '''Linux HPC Software Stack''']||Sun Systems Engineer Larry McIntosh provides an overview of Sun HPC software reference stack for Lustre.||2008 | ||
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||[http://www.sun.com/software/products/lustre/docs/Lustre-networking.pdf '''Lustre File System Networking: High-Performance Features and Flexible Support for a Wide Array of Networks''']||Information about Lustre networking that can be used to plan cluster file system deployments for optimal performance and scalability. Covered topics include Lustre message passing, Lustre Network Drivers, and routing in Lustre networks, and the paper describes how these features can be used to improve cluster storage management.|| November 2008 | ||[http://www.sun.com/software/products/lustre/docs/Lustre-networking.pdf '''Lustre File System Networking: High-Performance Features and Flexible Support for a Wide Array of Networks''']||Information about Lustre networking that can be used to plan cluster file system deployments for optimal performance and scalability. Covered topics include Lustre message passing, Lustre Network Drivers, and routing in Lustre networks, and the paper describes how these features can be used to improve cluster storage management.|| November 2008 | ||
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||[ | ||[https://www.sun.com/offers/details/LustreFileSystem.xml '''Lustre File System: High-Performance Storage Architecture and Scalable Cluster File System''']||Basic information about the Lustre file system. Covered topics include general characteristics and markets in which Lustre has a strong presence, a typical Lustre file system configuration, an overview of Lustre networking (LNET), an introduction of Lustre capabilities that support high availability and rolling upgrades, discussion of file storage in a Lustre file system, additional features, and information about a how a Lustre file system compares to other shared file systems.||October 2008 | ||
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|[http://www. | ||[http://www.sun.com/offers/docs/open_petascale_computing.pdf '''Pathways to Open Petascale Computing''']||Derived from Sun’s innovative design approach and experience with very large supercomputing deployments, the Sun Constellation System provides the world's first open petascale computing environment — one built entirely with open and standard hardware and software technologies. Cluster architects can use the Sun Constellation System to design and rapidly deploy tightly-integrated, efficient, and cost-effective supercomputing grids and clusters that scale predictably from a few teraflops to over a petaflop. With a totally modular approach, processors, memory, interconnect fabric, and storage can all be scaled independently depending on individual needs. ||June 2008 | ||
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||[http://www.sun.com/software/products/lustre/docs/Peta-Scale_wp.pdf '''Peta-Scale I/O with the Lustre File System''']||Describes low-level infrastructure in the Lustre file system that addresses scalability in very large clusters. Covered topics include scalable I/O, locking policies and algorithms to cope with scale, implications for recovery, and other scalability issues. / ORNL ||February 2008 | ||[http://www.sun.com/software/products/lustre/docs/Peta-Scale_wp.pdf '''Peta-Scale I/O with the Lustre File System''']||Describes low-level infrastructure in the Lustre file system that addresses scalability in very large clusters. Covered topics include scalable I/O, locking policies and algorithms to cope with scale, implications for recovery, and other scalability issues. / ORNL ||February 2008 | ||
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||[ | ||[[Media:Lustre_wan_tg07.pdf|'''Wide Area Filesystem Performance using Lustre on the TeraGrid''']]|| TeraGrid 2007 conference / Indiana University|| June 2007 | ||
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|[ | ||[[Media:Yu_lustre.pdf|'''Exploiting Lustre File Joining for Effective Collective IO''']]||Proceedings of the CCGrid'07 / ORNL || May 2007 | ||
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||[http:// | ||[http://www.sun.com/blueprints/0507/820-2187.html '''Tokyo Tech Tsubame Grid Storage Implementation''']||By Syuuichi Ihara|| May 2007 | ||
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||[ | ||[[Media:Hpc_cats_wp.pdf|'''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)/ Synopsys||2007 | ||
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| | |[[Media:Larkin_paper.pdf|'''Guidelines for Efficient Parallel I/O on the Cray XT3/XT4''']]||Jeff Larkin, Mark Fahey, proceedings of CUG 2007 / Cray User Group|| 2007 | ||
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||[http://wiki.lustre.org/images/ | |[[Media:Canon_paper.pdf|'''XT7? Integrating and Operating a Conjoined XT3+XT4 System''']]||Presented by ORNL on CUG 2007 [http://wiki.lustre.org/images/f/fa/Canon_slides.pdf (Presentation also available.)] / Cray User Group ||2007 | ||
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| | |[[Media:A_Center-Wide_FS_using_Lustre.pdf|'''A Center-Wide File System using Lustre''']]||Shane Canon, Sarp Oral, proceedings of CUG 2006 \ Cray User Group|| 2006 | ||
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||[http:// | ||[[Media:Cac06_lustre.pdf|'''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. You can also [http://nowlab.cse.ohio-state.edu/publications/conf-papers/2006/yu-cac06.pdf download the paper at the OSU site]. / Ohio State University || 2006 | ||
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||[ | ||[[Media:MSST-2006-paper.pdf|'''Coordinating Parallel Hierarchical Storage Management in Object-base Cluster File Systems''']]||MSST2006, Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies (May 2006) / University of Minnesota ||2006 | ||
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| | |[[Media:Our_Collateral_selecting-a-cfs.pdf|'''Selecting a cluster file system''']]||CFS||Nov 2005 | ||
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|[ | ||[[Media:LciPaper.pdf|'''Shared Parallel Filesystem in Heterogeneous Linux Multi-Cluster Environment''']]||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. The same paper is also [http://linuxclustersinstitute.org/Linux-HPC-Revolution/Archive/PDF05/17-Oberg_M.pdf available at the CU site.] / University of Colorado, Boulder ||2005 | ||
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||[http://indico.cern.ch/materialDisplay.py?contribId=23&sessionId=10&materialId=slides&confId=27391 '''Lustre cluster in production at GSI''']||Presented by | ||[http://indico.cern.ch/materialDisplay.py?contribId=23&sessionId=10&materialId=slides&confId=27391 '''Lustre cluster in production at GSI''']||Presented by Walter Schön / HEPiX Talks || May 2008 | ||
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||[http://indico.cern.ch/materialDisplay.py?contribId=28&sessionId=10&materialId=slides&confId=27391 '''Final Report from File Systems Working Group''']||Presented by | ||[http://indico.cern.ch/materialDisplay.py?contribId=28&sessionId=10&materialId=slides&confId=27391 '''Final Report from File Systems Working Group''']||Presented by Andrei Maslennikov / HEPiX Talks || May 2008 | ||
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||[http://indico.cern.ch/contributionDisplay.py?contribId=17&sessionId=10&confId=27391 '''Setting up a simple Lustre Filesystem'''] ||Presented by Stephan Wiesand. Slides on HPPix site: [https://indico.desy.de/getFile.py/access?contribId=26&sessionId=40&resId=1&materialId=slides&confId=257 Storage Evaluations at BNL] / HEPiX Talks || May 2008 | ||[http://indico.cern.ch/contributionDisplay.py?contribId=17&sessionId=10&confId=27391 '''Setting up a simple Lustre Filesystem'''] ||Presented by Stephan Wiesand. Slides on HPPix site: [https://indico.desy.de/getFile.py/access?contribId=26&sessionId=40&resId=1&materialId=slides&confId=257 Storage Evaluations at BNL] / HEPiX Talks || May 2008 | ||
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||[ | ||[[Media:Storage_Evaluations%40BNL.pdf|'''Storage Evaluations at BNL''']] ||Presented by Robert Petkus - BNL. Slides on HEPix site: [https://indico.desy.de/getFile.py/access?contribId=44&sessionId=39&resId=0&materialId=slides&confId=257 Lustre Experience at CEA/DIF] / HEPiX Talks || May 2008 | ||
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||[ | ||[[Media:DIF.pdf|'''Lustre Experience at CEA/DIF''']]||Presented by J-Ch Lafoucriere / HEPiX Talks || April 2008 | ||
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| | ||[[Media:Canon_slides.pdf|'''XT7?:Integrating and Operating a Conjoined XT3+XT4 System''']]|| 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 a novel application of Lustre routing capabilities. / Cray User Group [http://wiki.lustre.org/images/b/b9/Canon_paper.pdf (Paper also available)]|| 2007 | ||
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| | |[[Media:Using_IOR_to_Analyze_IO_Performance.pdf|'''Using IOR to Analyze the I/O Performance''']]|| Presented by Hongzhang Shan and John Shalf (NERSC) at CUG 2007 / Cray User Group ||2007 | ||
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||[ | ||[[Media:Karlsruhe0512.pdf|'''Performance Monitoring in a HP SFS Environment''']]||HP-CCN in Seattle / Karlsruhe Lustre Talks || November 2005 | ||
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||[ | ||[[Media:Karlsruhe0503.pdf|'''Filesystems on SSCK's HP XC6000''']]|| Einführungsveranstaltung im Rechenzentrum / Karlsruhe Lustre Talks || 2005 | ||
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||[ | ||[[Media:Karlsruhe0506.pdf|'''ISC 2005 in Heidelberg''']]|| Karlsruhe Lustre Talks || June 2005 | ||
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||[ | ||[[Media:Karlsruhe0510.pdf|'''Experiences & Performance of SFS/Lustre Cluster File System in Production''']] || HP-CAST 4 in Krakau / Karlsruhe Lustre Talks || May 2005 | ||
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| | |[[Media:Ols2003.pdf|'''Lustre: Building a cluster file system for 1,000 node clusters''']]||A technical presentation about successes and mistakes during 2002-2003 / Cluster File Systems||Summer 2003 | ||
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Latest revision as of 16:57, 18 December 2009
You'll find informative sources here about Lustre™ technology and its applications, including videos and podcasts describing Lustre at a high-level and more detailed white papers, blue prints and engineering presentations produced by a variety of Lustre experts and research organizations.
Videos & Podcasts
| Title | Description/Source | Date |
|---|---|---|
| RCE 14: Lustre Cluster File System | Research Computing and Engineering interview with Andreas Dilger, one of the principal file system architects for the Lustre file system. | 2009 |
| Linux HPC Software Stack | Sun Systems Engineer Larry McIntosh provides an overview of Sun HPC software reference stack for Lustre. | 2008 |
| Lustre Overview by Peter Bojanic | Learn about the Lustre parallel file system, the newest addition to the Sun HPC portfolio, which is designed to meet the demands of the world's largest high performance clusters. | December 7, 2007 |
| Sun Storage Cluster | Find out how Sun simplifies the deployment of Lustre-based storage. | January 9, 2009 |
| Radio HPC - Episode 11 | Tony Warner chats with Voltaire's Brian Forbes about their companies' partnership in the InfiniBand space, and Peter Bojanic clues us in on what's new with Sun's Lustre file system. | February 3, 2009 |
White Papers
| Title | Description/Source | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Lustre File System Networking: High-Performance Features and Flexible Support for a Wide Array of Networks | Information about Lustre networking that can be used to plan cluster file system deployments for optimal performance and scalability. Covered topics include Lustre message passing, Lustre Network Drivers, and routing in Lustre networks, and the paper describes how these features can be used to improve cluster storage management. | November 2008 |
| Lustre File System: High-Performance Storage Architecture and Scalable Cluster File System | Basic information about the Lustre file system. Covered topics include general characteristics and markets in which Lustre has a strong presence, a typical Lustre file system configuration, an overview of Lustre networking (LNET), an introduction of Lustre capabilities that support high availability and rolling upgrades, discussion of file storage in a Lustre file system, additional features, and information about a how a Lustre file system compares to other shared file systems. | October 2008 |
| Pathways to Open Petascale Computing | Derived from Sun’s innovative design approach and experience with very large supercomputing deployments, the Sun Constellation System provides the world's first open petascale computing environment — one built entirely with open and standard hardware and software technologies. Cluster architects can use the Sun Constellation System to design and rapidly deploy tightly-integrated, efficient, and cost-effective supercomputing grids and clusters that scale predictably from a few teraflops to over a petaflop. With a totally modular approach, processors, memory, interconnect fabric, and storage can all be scaled independently depending on individual needs. | June 2008 |
| Peta-Scale I/O with the Lustre File System | Describes low-level infrastructure in the Lustre file system that addresses scalability in very large clusters. Covered topics include scalable I/O, locking policies and algorithms to cope with scale, implications for recovery, and other scalability issues. / ORNL | February 2008 |
| Wide Area Filesystem Performance using Lustre on the TeraGrid | TeraGrid 2007 conference / Indiana University | June 2007 |
| Exploiting Lustre File Joining for Effective Collective IO | Proceedings of the CCGrid'07 / ORNL | May 2007 |
| Tokyo Tech Tsubame Grid Storage Implementation | By Syuuichi Ihara | May 2007 |
| 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)/ Synopsys | 2007 |
| Guidelines for Efficient Parallel I/O on the Cray XT3/XT4 | Jeff Larkin, Mark Fahey, proceedings of CUG 2007 / Cray User Group | 2007 |
| XT7? Integrating and Operating a Conjoined XT3+XT4 System | Presented by ORNL on CUG 2007 (Presentation also available.) / Cray User Group | 2007 |
| A Center-Wide File System using Lustre | Shane Canon, Sarp Oral, proceedings of CUG 2006 \ Cray User Group | 2006 |
| 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. You can also download the paper at the OSU site. / Ohio State University | 2006 |
| Coordinating Parallel Hierarchical Storage Management in Object-base Cluster File Systems | MSST2006, Conference on Mass Storage Systems and Technologies (May 2006) / University of Minnesota | 2006 |
| Selecting a cluster file system | CFS | Nov 2005 |
| Shared Parallel Filesystem in Heterogeneous Linux Multi-Cluster Environment | 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. The same paper is also available at the CU site. / University of Colorado, Boulder | 2005 |
BluePrints
| Title | Description/Source | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Lustre File System - Demo Quick Start Guide | A simple cookbook for non-Linux experts on how to set up a Linux-based Lustre file system using small servers, workstations, PCs, or other available hardware for demonstration purposes. | 2009 |
| Implementing the Lustre File System with Sun Storage | Describes an implementation of the Sun Lustre file system as a scalable storage cluster using Sun Fire servers, and highspeed/lowlatency InfiniBand interconnects. | 2009 |
| Tokyo Tech Tsubame Grid Storage Implementation | This Sun BluePrints™ article describes the storage architecture of the Tokyo Tech , TSUBAME grid, as well as the steps for installing and configuring the Lustre file system , within the storage architecture. | 2009 |
| Sun Storage and Archive Solution for HPC: Sun BluePrints Reference Architecture | To help customers address an almost bewildering set of architectural challenges, Sun has developed the Sun Storage and Archive Solution for HPC, a reference architecture that , can be easily customized to meet specific application goals and business requirements. | May 2008 |
Lustre User Presentations
| Title | Description/Source | Date |
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| Lustre cluster in production at GSI | Presented by Walter Schön / HEPiX Talks | May 2008 |
| Final Report from File Systems Working Group | Presented by Andrei Maslennikov / HEPiX Talks | May 2008 |
| Setting up a simple Lustre Filesystem | Presented by Stephan Wiesand. Slides on HPPix site: Storage Evaluations at BNL / HEPiX Talks | May 2008 |
| Storage Evaluations at BNL | Presented by Robert Petkus - BNL. Slides on HEPix site: Lustre Experience at CEA/DIF / HEPiX Talks | May 2008 |
| Lustre Experience at CEA/DIF | Presented by J-Ch Lafoucriere / HEPiX Talks | April 2008 |
| XT7?:Integrating and Operating a Conjoined XT3+XT4 System | 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 a novel application of Lustre routing capabilities. / Cray User Group (Paper also available) | 2007 |
| Using IOR to Analyze the I/O Performance | Presented by Hongzhang Shan and John Shalf (NERSC) at CUG 2007 / Cray User Group | 2007 |
| Performance Monitoring in a HP SFS Environment | HP-CCN in Seattle / Karlsruhe Lustre Talks | November 2005 |
| Filesystems on SSCK's HP XC6000 | Einführungsveranstaltung im Rechenzentrum / Karlsruhe Lustre Talks | 2005 |
| ISC 2005 in Heidelberg | Karlsruhe Lustre Talks | June 2005 |
| Experiences & Performance of SFS/Lustre Cluster File System in Production | HP-CAST 4 in Krakau / Karlsruhe Lustre Talks | May 2005 |
| Lustre: Building a cluster file system for 1,000 node clusters | A technical presentation about successes and mistakes during 2002-2003 / Cluster File Systems | Summer 2003 |
