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Lustre is a massively parallel filesystem typically used in domains where designed for high-performance, large-scale data is critical.
Lustre is mature and open source (GPLv2), running stably in production at hundreds many thousands of sites and open source(GPL2). Fifteen of top 30 and seven of top ten world supercomputers use Lustre filesystem as storage, including the fastest: Tianhe-1A at the National Supercomputing Center in Tianjin, China; second fastest Jaguar at Oak Ridge National Laboratoryaround the world. Over 75% of the top 100 fastest supercomputers in the world rely on Lustre for their storage needs, and have been for over 10 years.
If you need lots of data , fast, Lustre might be the right choice for you.fast and reliably, value being able to use any vendor's block storage and want to become part of a world-wide open community, then Lustre is a good choice.
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Lustre Essentials
The latest stability release of Lustre is Lustre 1.8.5 and the latest feature release of Lustre is Lustre 2.0. Both are available from the Whamcloud download page
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Lustre Support
Whamcloud provides unparalleled Lustre support. Whamcloud service covers Linux Lustre environments regardless of size, complexity, or type of servers or storage. Specifics as to what is supported Specific details are listed in the Lustre Support Matrix page.
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