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Informative sources regarding Lustre technology and its application. | Informative sources regarding Lustre technology and its application. | ||
You'll find videos and podcasts describing Lustre at a high-level, engineering presentations from Lustre engineers, | 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. | ||
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Revision as of 12:16, 12 August 2009
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.
Lustre Documentation
| Title | Description/Source | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Lustre Operations Manual | The Lustre Operations Manual provides users with installation, configuration, tuning, monitoring and troubleshooting information. | 2009 |
Videos & Podcasts
| Title | Description/Source | Date |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Best Practices for Architecting a Lustre-Based Storage Environment | DDN | March 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 |
| Best Practices for Architecting a Lustre-based Storage Environment | A series of best practices to consider when deploying a highly-reliable, high-performance Lustre environment. Covered topics include storage infrastructure failover, maximizing computational capability by minimizing I/O overhead, ensuring predictable striped file performance, and protecting large, persistent data stores. / DataDirect Networks | 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 Also a Sun BluePrints Publication | May 2007 |
| paper 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 |
| Wide Wrea Filesystem Performance Using Lustre on the TeraGrid | Teragrid 2007 Conference, Madison,WI / TeraGrid | 2007 |
| Guidelines for Efficient Parallel I/O on the Cray XT3/XT4 (PDF) | 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 |
| Experiences with HP SFS/Lustre at SSCK | SGPFS 5 in Stuttgart / Karlsruhe Lustre Talks | 4.4.2006 |
| Filesystems on SSCK's HP XC6000 | Einführungsveranstaltung im Rechenzentrum / Karlsruhe Lustre Talks | 2005 |
| Experiences & Performance of SFS/Lustre Cluster File System in Production | HP-CAST 4 in Krakau / Karlsruhe Lustre Talks | 10.5.2005 |
| ISC 2005 in Heidelberg | Karlsruhe Lustre Talks | 24.6.2005 |
| Experiences with 10 Months HP SFS/Lustre in HPC Production | HP-CAST 5 in Seattle / Karlsruhe Lustre Talks | 11.11.2005 |
| Performance Monitoring in a HP SFS Environment | HP-CCN in Seattle / Karlsruhe Lustre Talks | 12.11.2005 |
| 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 |
| Lustre: Building a cluster file system for 1,000 node clusters | A technical presentation about our successes and mistakes during 2002-2003 / CFS | Summer 2003 |
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 |
Presentations
| Title | Description/Source | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Lustre cluster in production at GSI | Presented by SCHöN, Walter / HEPiX Talks | May 2008 |
| Final Report from File Systems Working Group | Presented by MASLENNIKOV, Andrei / 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 23-27, 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 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,John Shalf (NERSC) on CUG 2007 / Cray User Group | 2007 |
| Lustre state and production installations | Presentation on gelato.org meeting / CFS | May 2004 |
| Lustre File System | Presentation on the state of Lustre in mid-2003 and the path towards Lustre1.0 / CFS | Summer 2003 |
| Lustre: Building a cluster file system for 1,000 node clusters | A technical presentation about our successes and mistakes during 2002-2003 / CFS | Summer 2003 |
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.
| Title | Description | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Lustre Windows Porting | Matt Wu | December 2008 |
| VBR-TOI | Mikhail Pershin | December 2008 |
| Simplified Interoperability Recovery | Huang Hua | December 2008 |
| Recovery Overview | Robert Read | December 2008 |
| Quotas-TOI | Yong Fan | December 2008 |
| Quality Initiative Talk | Robert Read | December 2008 |
| pNFS Speaker Notes | Oleg Drokin | December 2008 |
| pNFS | Oleg Drokin | December 2008 |
| OST Pools | Nathan Rutman | December 2008 |
| OST Migration RAID1 SNS | Andreas Dilger | December 2008 |
| ORNL Experience Speaker Notes | Oleg Drokin | December 2008 |
| ORNL Experience | Oleg Drokin | December 2008 |
| Lustre NRS Simulation | Yingjin Qian, Wang Di | December 2008 |
| Lustre Interoperability 1.8 | Huang Hua | December 2008 |
| Lustre All-Hands Meeting 12/2008 - Keynote | Peter Bojanic | December 2008 |
| Lustre on DMU | Alex Zhuravlev | December 2008 |
| LLOG Overview | Alex Zhuravlev | December 2008 |
| HDFS | Wang Di | December 2008 |
| GIT Overview | Robert Read | December 2008 |
| COS-TOI COS-TOI | Alexander Zarochentsev | December 2008 |
| CLIO-TOI | Nikita Danilov | December 2008 |
| CLIO | Nikita Danilov | December 2008 |
| Read-Only Cache - TOI | Alex Zhuravlev | December 2008 |
| Title | Description | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Development | ||
| RMG Processes | Andreas Dilger | March 17, 2008 |
| Lustre Development Strategy | Eric Barton | March 17, 2008 |
| CMD | Yury Umanets | March 17, 2008 |
| HEAD MDS | Nikita Danilov | March 17, 2008 |
| User Space Servers | Alex Zhuravlev | March 17, 2008 |
| DMU | Ricardo Correia | March 17, 2008 |
| Recovery | Mike Pershin | March 17, 2008 |
| DLM | Oleg Drokin | March 17, 2008 |
| LNET | Issac Huang | March 17, 2008 |
| Quality Engineering | ||
| Day 1Day 2 | JD | March 17, 2008 |
| Lustre Release & weekly testing | Jian Yu | March 17, 2008 |
| Build System | Yibin Wang | March 17, 2008 |
| HEAD testing | Zheng Chen | March 17, 2008 |
| b1.6 testing | Peng Ye | March 17, 2008 |
| Performance testing | Jack Chen | March 17, 2008 |
| Automation | Minh Diep | March 17, 2008 |
| Acc-small | Elena Gryaznova | March 17, 2008 |
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.
- Working draft T10 OSD
- A standards effort exists in the T10 OSD working group proposal.
- October 2000
