OpenSFS

OpenSFS
Consortium
Founded 2010
Headquarters Beaverton, Oregon, United States
Website www.opensfs.org

Open Scalable File Systems, Inc. (OpenSFS) is a nonprofit organization promoting the Lustre file system. OpenSFS was founded in 2010 to ensure Lustre remains vendor-neutral, open, and free.[1]

History

The Lustre file system architecture started in 1999 as a research project by Peter J. Braam, who was on staff at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) at the time. Braam then founded Cluster File Systems in 2001, with work from the InterMezzo file system in the Coda project at CMU.[2] Lustre was developed under the Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative Path Forward project funded by the United States Department of Energy, which included Hewlett-Packard and Intel.[3] In September 2007, Sun Microsystems acquired the assets of Cluster File Systems Inc.[4][5] In November 2008, Braam left Sun Microsystems, and Eric Barton and Andreas Dilger took control of the project.

Lustre was deployed in computational centers including many TOP500 systems. After Oracle Corporation acquired Sun in 2010, ongoing development of Lustre was discontinued, prompting more Lustre developers to leave.[6] OpenSFS was founded in October 2010 to steward an open source software Lustre community. Original participants were Cray, DataDirect Networks, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory.[7][8]

In 2011, Lustre 2.1 was the first community release endorsed by OpenSFS. OpenSFS began direct funding of community releases in early 2012, focused on introducing new features and targeted every six months. Maintenance releases are targeted every three months.[9] OpenSFS solicited proposals in February 2013 for Lustre feature development, parallel file system tools, addressing Lustre technical issues, and parallel file system incubators.[10][11]

In April 2013 Norman Morse, who had been CEO since it was founded, resigned.[12] OpenSFS-funded releases including Lustre 2.5 in October 2013 containing a Lustre+HSM integration capability.[13][14][15][16] OpenSFS established a Lustre Community Portal to support the open source community.[17]

An annual Lustre User group event is held by OpenSFS in April for discussion and seminars on open source file system technologies.[18] OpenSFS held the first annual APAC Lustre Users Group events in China and Japan in 2013.

References

  1. ↑ "About Us". OpenSFS. Retrieved 1 October 2013.
  2. ↑ Peter J. Braam (August 4, 2002). "Lustre, The Inter-Galactic File System" (PDF). Presentation slides. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Retrieved September 23, 2013.
  3. ↑ R. Kent Koeninger (June 2003). "The Ultra-Scalable HPTC Lustre Filesystem" (PDF). Slides for presentation at Cluster World 2003. Retrieved September 23, 2013.
  4. ↑ Britta Wülfing (September 13, 2007). "Sun Assimilates Lustre Filesystem". Linux Magazine. Retrieved September 23, 2013.
  5. ↑ "Sun Microsystems Expands High Performance Computing Portfolio with Definitive Agreement to Acquire Assets of Cluster File Systems, Including the Lustre File System". Press release. Sun Microsystems. September 12, 2007. Archived from the original on October 2, 2007. Retrieved September 23, 2013.
  6. ↑ Rich Brueckner (January 10, 2011). "Oracle has Kicked Lustre to the Curb". Inside HPC. Retrieved October 25, 2016.
  7. ↑ Rich Brueckner (October 19, 2010). "OpenSFS Forms to Help Lustre Move On From the Dark Tower". Inside HPC. Retrieved October 25, 2016.
  8. ↑ Nicole Hemsoth (November 22, 2011). "Lustre Vendors Consider File System's Future". Inside HPC. Retrieved October 25, 2016.
  9. ↑ "Lustre Releases". HPDD Community Wiki. Intel. Retrieved October 25, 2016.
  10. ↑ Rich Brueckner (February 21, 2013). "With New RFP, OpenSFS to Invest in Critical Open Source Technologies for HPC". Inside HPC. Retrieved October 25, 2016.
  11. ↑ "OpenSFS Increases Investment in Open Source for HPC". Press release. HPC Wire. February 22, 2013. Archived from the original on March 5, 2013. Retrieved October 25, 2016.
  12. ↑ Rich Brueckner (April 16, 2013). "LUG 2013 Kicks Off with Surprise Announcement from OpenSFS". Inside HPC. Retrieved October 25, 2016.
  13. ↑ Prickett Morgan, Timothy. "OpenSFS Announces Availability of Lustre 2.5". EnterpriseTech.
  14. ↑ Brueckner, Rich. "Video: New Lustre 2.5 Release Offers HSM Capabilities". Inside Big Data. Retrieved 11 December 2013.
  15. ↑ Hemsoth, Nicole. "Lustre Gets Business Class Upgrade with HSM". HPCwire. Retrieved 11 December 2013.
  16. ↑ "Lustre 2.5". Scientific Computing World. Retrieved 11 December 2013.
  17. ↑ "Lustre Community Portal". OpenSFS. Retrieved 1 October 2013.
  18. ↑ "Live Report from LUG 2016 Day 3". Inside HPC. April 9, 2016. Retrieved October 25, 2016.

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