Lustre Publications

CFS

• Lustre state and production installations
  • Presentation on gelato.org meeting
  • May 2004

• Lustre File System
  • A presentation on the state of Lustre in mid-2003 and the path towards Lustre1.0.
  • Summer 2003

• Lustre: Building a cluster file system for 1,000 node clusters
  • A technical presentation about our successes and mistakes during 2002-2003.
  • Summer 2003

• 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

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.

• Using IOR to Analyze the I/O Performance
  • Presented by Hongzhang Shan,John Shalf (NERSC) on CUG 2007
  • Slides in PDF format

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

DDN

• Best Practices for Architecting Lustre-based Storage Environment
  • 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 on a Sun Thumper
  • Slides in PDF format
  • Slides on HPPix site: Storage Evaluations at BNL

• Lustre Experience at CEA/DIF
  • Presented by J-Ch Lafoucriere
  • Slides in PDF format
  • Slides on HEPix site: Lustre Experience at CEA/DIF

Indiana University

• Wide Area Filesystem Performance using Lustre on the TeraGrid
  • TeraGrid 2007 conference, June 2007
  • Paper in PDF format

Karlsruhe Lustre Talks

• http://www.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de/dienste/lustretalks.php
• Filesystems on SSCK's HP XC6000
  • Einführungsveranstaltung im Rechenzentrum (2005): Karlsruhe0503.pdf
• Experiences & Performance of SFS/Lustre Cluster File System in Production
  • HP-CAST 4 in Krakau (10.5.2005): Karlsruhe0510.pdf
• Experiences with HP SFS/Lustre in HPC Production
  • ISC 2005 in Heidelberg (24.6.2005): Karlsruhe0506.pdf
• Experiences with 10 Months HP SFS/Lustre in HPC Production
  • HP-CAST 5 in Seattle (11.11.2005): Karlsruhe0511.pdf
• Performance Monitoring in a HP SFS Environment
  • HP-CCN in Seattle (12.11.2005): Karlsruhe0512.pdf
• Experiences with HP SFS/Lustre at SSCK
  • 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

ORNL

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

SUN

• Tokyo Tech Tsubame Grid Storage Implementation
  • By Syuuichi Ihara, May 2007
  • Paper in pdf format
  • Sun BluePrints Publications

Synopsys

• 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)
  • 2007
  • paper in pdf format

TeraGrid

• Wide Wrea Filesystem Performance Using Lustre on the TeraGrid
  • Teragrid 2007 Conference, Madison,WI
  • Paper in PDF format

University of Colorado, Boulder

• 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 is the same as the attachment to the 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