Lustre File System


	Virtualization Starts Here Lustre is the world's number 1 parallel file system and is designed to enable I/O performance and scaling beyond the limits of traditional storage technology. Often used in High Performance Computing environments, Lustre is also applicable to any enterprise storage environment where very high I/O bandwidth is required.

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	Unparalleled Scalability—Scales to tens of petabytes and thousands of clients - a file system virtually without limits Reliable—Deployed in production on many large and small clusters, meeting uptime requirements of business and national security applications Proven Performance—Delivers dramatic increase in throughput and I/O by intelligent serialization and separation of metadata operations froom data manipulation Cost Effective—Significantly reduces deployment and support costs through support for industry-standard platforms end heterogeneous networking environments Open Source, Open Standards—Developed and maintained as open source software with an open networking protocol and POSIX file system semantics, ensuring broad support for industry-standard platforms and heterogeneous networking environments

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