Chroma Will Help to Provision and Manage Lustre Installations
Back to the good old days when I worked as a system administrator, I remember that I wanted to implement a Lustre file system for the two small clusters that we had (64 and 20 nodes, respectively)....
View ArticleLustre Strives to Go Mainstream
Do you remember Chroma, the software from Whamcloud that allows to deploy and manage Lustre installations with a web interface? In April 2012, DataDirect Networks (DDN) announced they have successfully...
View ArticleLustre and Panasas Are Not So Different
As vendors try to showcase their products, there is often confusion regarding the difference between two similar products, such as PanFS from Panasas, Inc. and Lustre (from Sun, then Oracle, then...
View ArticleParallel NFS (pNFS): the War Is Close
Every Unix of Linux system administrator knows NFS, the Network File System, invented back in 1984. Its notable feature is a very simple syntax: mount server.example.com:/exported/tree...
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