HP clusters for open source Lustre

HP is the first company to integrate the open source Lustre file system into a product that allows supercomputers to let thousands of machines quickly share files through easy to use configuration, set up and management functions.

The StorageWorks Scalable File System, similar to IBM's General Parallel File System and Silicon Graphics Inc.'s CXFS proprietary software, will be released at the International Supercomputing Conference in Heidelberg in Germany on June 23rd.

It will include software that makes it easier to install and manage Lustre, which will create more time for engineering, and will cut down on time spent on learning about the software.

This new product is the second based on HP's Storage Grid networked storage architecture and will be integrated with hardware, like the RISS (Reference Information Storage System), which allows emails to be archived and retrieved with ease.

This system is expected to smooth over the configuration process, which can have an effect on the cluster performance of a supercomputer, by assigning the right ratio of disk drives to file servers and clients.

It will be made available in 2004, and a third product is expected to follow. This will be called Scalable Tiered Storage. It will use grid concepts to simplify the management of multiple storage arrays.

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