Cluster File Systems Launches Lustre Centre of Excellence

Business Wire, Nov 14, 2006

Joint Venture with Oak Ridge National Labs Targets Petaflop Supercomputer Initiative

BOULDER, Colo. & TAMPA, Fla. -- Cluster File Systems[TM], Inc. (CFS), announced that it has established its first Lustre Centre of Excellence[TM] in partnership with the Department of Energy Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). The Lustre Centre of Excellence is located at the ORNL Leadership Computing Facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. It is part of a DOE Office of Science initiative to deliver a one petaflop Cray system for open science research in 2008. The Leadership Computing Facility uses Lustre[R] technology across all its production supercomputers today.

The Lustre Centre of Excellence at ORNL focuses on three goals

* Enhancing the scalability of the Lustre File System to meet the performance requirements of petascale systems

* Building Lustre expertise through training and workshops

* Assisting science teams in getting the maximum I/O performance from their applications

"The Lustre Centre of Excellence will be a catalyst for scientific breakthroughs," said Thomas Zacharia, Associate Laboratory Director for computing at ORNL. "Moreover, it will become a focal point for universities, labs, and vendors to come together and use the flexibility and open source status of Lustre to create solutions to the their high performance file system needs."

"A growing number of Super Computing sites are turning to Lustre Software to meet the requirements for high performance and scalability. We want to make sure that we will meet their demands well into the future," said Dr. Peter Braam, President and CEO of Cluster File Systems, Inc. "The establishment of Lustre Centres of Excellence will allow us to partner with the world's leading HPC developers, such as ORNL, in a concerted effort to break down performance barriers to very large scale cluster computing."

About Cluster File Systems, Inc.

Cluster File Systems, Inc. (CFS) has established itself as the recognized leader in high-performance, scalable cluster file system technology. Extensive experience, innovative insights, and proven engineering have enabled CFS to dramatically surpass the scalability limits of modern computing. The Company's premier Lustre File System currently powers clusters with tens of thousands of nodes and petabytes of data, delivering groundbreaking parallel I/O and metadata throughput on many of the world's largest Linux-based supercomputers. CFS provides technical support, training, and engineering services, and is actively working with storage and cluster vendors to develop the next generation of intelligent storage devices. The Lustre File System for Linux is open source software developed and maintained by CFS. For more information, visit www.clusterfs.com.

About Oak Ridge National Laboratory

The U.S. Department of Energy Oak Ridge National Laboratory is a multiprogram science and technology laboratory where more than 4,000 scientist, researchers, and support staff create scientific knowledge and technological solutions that strengthen the nation's leadership in key areas of science. It is home to The Office of Science's National Leadership Computing Facility, one of the world's largest high-performance computing centers for scientific and energy research. Go to www.ornl.gov for more information.

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