Lustre® File System

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The Lustre® file system is a open source, parallel file system that supports the requirements of leadership class HPC and Enterprise environments worldwide.  Lustre provides a POSIX compliant interface and scales to thousands of clients, hundreds of petabytes of storage, and has demonstrated over several terabytes per second of sustained I/O bandwidth.  Many of the largest and most powerful supercomputers on Earth today are powered by the Lustre file system, including over 60% of the TOP100 sites.

In recent years the Lustre 2.x release series has delivered major new features and enhancements, enabling the success of Lustre not only in demanding high performance computing (HPC) environments, but also the challenging world of Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI), Cloud, Big Data and Enterprise computing.

The Lustre Community website lustre.org supports the open source community — developers, admins, and users — providing downloadable Lustre releases, documentation, development tree access, issue reporting, working groups, mailing lists, and more. We encourage you to download and use Lustre, participate in the community, and provide your input and support as we grow Lustre success worldwide.

OpenSFS is a nonprofit organization founded in 2010 to advance Lustre development, ensuring it remains vendor-neutral, open, and freely downloadable. OpenSFS participants include vendors and customers who employ the world’s best Lustre file system experts, implementing and supporting Lustre solutions across HPC and commercial enterprises. OpenSFS actively promotes the growth, stability and vendor neutrality of the Lustre file system.

Here at OpenSFS, we live and breathe Lustre.

Lustre Roadmap

The Lustre Roadmap page presents a timeline of the planned Maintenance and Feature Lustre Releases.

Join the Community

Get involved and follow the activities and discussions of the OpenSFS Working Groups at the working group wiki pages.

The OpenSFS Work Groups are open to any interested participant, regardless of OpenSFS membership. We encourage any member of the Lustre® file system community to join the Work Group mailing lists and meetings.

Become a Supporter

By joining OpenSFS, you have multiple options for sustaining and furthering the development of open source file systems:

  • Guide the ongoing evolution of the Lustre file system
  • Promote greater awareness
  • Ensure continuous access to LUG conference materials

Help OpenSFS build robust open source file systems for – and under the control of – the HPC community.

Please see Why Join to learn more.

Mailing Lists

Join the Working Group mailing lists at
http://lustre.org/mailing-lists/

The Lustre development community also maintains several mailing lists that you can join to stay informed, ask questions, and discuss Lustre with other users and developers.

  • OpenSFS Discuss: Primary community list for Lustre related information, events, and user experiences
  • lustre-discuss: Ask questions and report experiences with Lustre