Palo Alto, CA — (press release excerpt) — HP announced that it has been chosen by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) to develop and deploy file system software for Linux clusters. The joint research and development effort between HP and NNSA to develop the software, code-named Lustre, is a three-year project. HP is supplying program management, development and test engineering, hardware, services and support to the initiative in a cost-sharing arrangement with NNSA and the DOE labs, including Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories. HP is working in conjunction with Cluster File Systems, Inc., which is serving as a subcontractor on the Lustre project.

Lustre is a high-performance, highly scalable, Linux-based file system designed to work on large compute clusters that provide more than 100 teraflops with high demand for storage and input/output performance. Lustre will be made available initially to each of the DOE labs, including the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, on HP's Linux-based high-performance computing cluster solutions. As a storage area network-based cluster file system, Lustre eventually is expected to provide high-speed, scalable access to scientific simulation data from other computational resources across the DOE labs.

Lustre originated at Carnegie Mellon University and has been designed over a three-year period by Cluster File Systems Inc., HP, Seagate, various Linux companies and NNSA's Office of Advanced Simulation and Computing PathForward program. An early version of the Lustre file system on large clustered Linux systems, code-named Luster Lite, will be deployed in all four of DOE's labs.

 
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