ABSTRACT
The Lustre1 file system is an Open Source (GPLv2) high performance parallel file system widely used in the HPC community to provide a global POSIX namespace and horizontally scalable I/O to the computing resources of an entire datacenter. It was originally designed for scalability and is capable of handling extremely large volumes of data and huge numbers of files with high availability and strong coherence of both data and metadata. This makes it the premier choice for the most demanding HPC applications spanning the world’s largest HPC clusters.
