h4. [Lustre File System: Demo Quick Start Guide !Main^download.gif!|http://mapping.sun.com/profile/offer.jsp?id=221]
*by Torben Kling-Petersen{*}{excerpt}
March 2009{excerpt}
The Lustre™ file system is a scalable, secure, robust, and highly-available cluster file system that addresses the I/O needs, such as low latency and extreme performance, of large computing clusters. Designed, developed, and maintained by Sun Microsystems, the Lustre file system is intended for environments where traditional shared file systems, such as NFS, do not scale to the required aggregate throughput or large number of nodes.
While the Lustre file system has been around for a number of years in the Open Source arena and there are a large number of installations worldwide, getting started without reading a 500\+ page manual - and having to be a Linux expert as well - is difficult. This paper provides 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.
h4. Contents
* Lustre file system overview
* Configuration overview
* Preliminary setup
** Installing the Linux operating system
** Creating the virtual volumes
** Installing the Lustre stack
* Lustre file system configuration
** Metadata Server
** Object Store Servers
** Client
* Managing the file system
** Using stripes
** Handling full OSTs
** Migrating data within a file system
* Summary
* About the author
* References
* Ordering Sun documents
* Accessing Sun documentation online
{panel:title=About the Authors|borderStyle=solid|titleBGColor=#F8D583|bgColor=white}
Torben Kling-Petersen has worked with high performance computing in one form or another since 1994 and is currently working as a Senior Technical Specialist for HPC in Sun's Lustre Group. Over the years, he has worked in a number of capacities such as lead architect for enterprise datacenter infrastructure, technical research lead and product specialist for high-end visualization, to mention a few. In his present capacity, Torben works in a global role providing technical evangelism and solution architectures on petaflop-scale HPC projects.
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*by Torben Kling-Petersen{*}{excerpt}
March 2009{excerpt}
The Lustre™ file system is a scalable, secure, robust, and highly-available cluster file system that addresses the I/O needs, such as low latency and extreme performance, of large computing clusters. Designed, developed, and maintained by Sun Microsystems, the Lustre file system is intended for environments where traditional shared file systems, such as NFS, do not scale to the required aggregate throughput or large number of nodes.
While the Lustre file system has been around for a number of years in the Open Source arena and there are a large number of installations worldwide, getting started without reading a 500\+ page manual - and having to be a Linux expert as well - is difficult. This paper provides 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.
h4. Contents
* Lustre file system overview
* Configuration overview
* Preliminary setup
** Installing the Linux operating system
** Creating the virtual volumes
** Installing the Lustre stack
* Lustre file system configuration
** Metadata Server
** Object Store Servers
** Client
* Managing the file system
** Using stripes
** Handling full OSTs
** Migrating data within a file system
* Summary
* About the author
* References
* Ordering Sun documents
* Accessing Sun documentation online
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Torben Kling-Petersen has worked with high performance computing in one form or another since 1994 and is currently working as a Senior Technical Specialist for HPC in Sun's Lustre Group. Over the years, he has worked in a number of capacities such as lead architect for enterprise datacenter infrastructure, technical research lead and product specialist for high-end visualization, to mention a few. In his present capacity, Torben works in a global role providing technical evangelism and solution architectures on petaflop-scale HPC projects.
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