Take full advantage of the Lustre file system by integrating the software quickly and efficiently into an HPC environment via the Sun Lustre On-site Implementation Services. This offering allows Sun to design, rapidly deploy, and perform acceptance testing for the pre-defined configuration of Lustre to meet HPC customers' particular IT and business needs.

The Lustre parallel file system can be used in any high performance computing (HPC) environment for a scalable storage component. The product has proven performance in I/O and throughput for any storage environment, and is currently deployed in both large and small clusters around the world. In fact, more than 100 teraflops worldwide are deployed in production environments where Lustre is used to manage data, Sun reports.

There are three pre-selected service offerings. This allows customers to select the right combination of systems and services to meet their unique Lustre needs. By leveraging pre-defined Lustre configurations that have been implemented in the field and known throughput for the parallel file system in HPC environments, organizations can expect to see faster business results.

Sun also offers an additional object storage server (OSS) implementation, if scalability requirements are needed for increased I/O and throughput.

The Lustre configurations, whether small, medium, or large, are defined from an engineering standpoint to ensure the solution being delivered meets the customer's expectations. The goal of the Sun Lustre On-site Implementation Service is to enable production quality reliability. Hence, all three configurations include high availability (HA) failover in order to achieve reliability and minimize or eliminate down-time. Through the use of the HA function, customers are assured that there is no single point of failure with these pre-defined configurations, so the use of HA is included as a best practice.

The Sun Lustre On-site Implementation Services require that the customer make up to 20 compute nodes available so Sun can conduct configuration testing.

After the implementation is completed, there will be a transfer of information with the customer or designated staff for a Lustre technology handover.

More Information

Sun Lustre On-site Implemenation Services

Lustre product page

Lustre wiki

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