Features and Benefits
Capable of providing shared file system access for hundreds or even thousands of nodes, the Lustre file system enables a storage solution with the high aggregate I/O bandwidth required by applications such as manufacturing, electronic design, finance, government, and research.
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Lustre Key Features
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Scalability
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Individual nodes, cluster size and disk storage are all scalable. Lustre currently supports a production environment with hundreds of thousands of clients. Oak Ridge National Laboratory uses Lustre to provide over 10PB of shared storage.
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Performance
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Lustre delivers over 240 GB/sec aggregate in production deployments. On single non-aggregate transfers, Lustre offers current single node performance of 2 GB/s client throughout (max) and 2.5 GB/s OSS throughput (max).
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POSIX compliance
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The full POSIX test suite passes on Lustre clients. POSIX means that most operations are atomic and clients never see stale data or metadata.
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High-availability
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Lustre offers shared storage partitions for OSS targets (OSTs) and a shared storage partition for MDS target (MDT).
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Security
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TCP connections only from privileged ports are optional. Group membership handling is server-based. POSIX ACLs are supported.
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Open source
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Lustre is licensed under the GNU GPL.
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