Lustre is a massively parallel distributed file system, generally used for large scale cluster computing. The name Lustre is a portmanteau word derived from Linux and cluster. Available under the GNU GPL, the project provides a high performance file system for clusters of tens of thousands of nodes with petabytes of storage capacity. [Wikipedia]

Lustre Parallel Secondary Storage

• Dell | Terascala HPC Storage Solution (DT-HSS)
• 20 storage shelves with a total of 432 TB of raw disk space
• 344 TB usable storage in a RAID-6 configuration
• Multiple NFS export nodes for remote instrument support

Lustre Terminology

MDS

metadata server

MDT

metadata target

OSS

object storage server

OST

object storage target