What is Lustre?

Note: After ten years of service to the national science and engineering community, the TeraGrid project has ended. It is succeeded by a new National Science Foundation (NSF) program, the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE). You should move any data stored on TeraGrid systems to an alternate storage resource. If you have leftover service units on your TeraGrid allocation, or if your research requires further use of high performance computational, visualization, storage, and network resources, consider applying for an allocation on one or more XSEDE digital services.

Lustre is a scalable, secure, robust, highly-available filesystem for compute clusters. It is designed, developed and maintained by Sun Microsystems, Inc. For more, see the Sun Lustre product page.

On the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE), the Albedo wide area network and Data Capacitor (IU) use the Lustre filesystem.

This document was developed with support from National Science Foundation (NSF) grant OCI-1053575. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF.

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