Hello all,
Next Tuesday evening we will be holding our monthly PLUG seminar. I
realise that this may come as a shock, but we do actually have a real,
live speaker booked and ready to talk to you all.
Title: Deconstructing Lustre
When: Tuesday, 27 March 2007, 7:30pm - 9:00pm. Note this is 2 weeks
later than usual - the day after the workshop.
Where: ARRC Auditorium, Tech Park
Presenter: Phil Schwan
*Summary*
The Lustre cluster file system provides a POSIX-compliant file system
API for clusters of almost any size. It's designed to scale along all
axes: given sufficient hardware, it can offer gigabytes-per-second
access to multi-petabyte storage arrays. Most of the world's largest
supercomputers use Lustre to access their storage, including the
largest clusters in North America, Europe, and Asia.
This makes Lustre relatively unique, not just by file system
standards, but also in what it requires from its operating system
environment.
In this hour we'll tour the highlights of Lustre's design, including:
* how Lustre differs from most other cluster file systems
* locking and concurrency
* a challenging recovery problem or two
* Linux kernel integration and associated nightmares
Refreshments will be provided after the seminar, thanks to iVEC.
*About Phil*
Phil is a visiting iVEC Industry & Government Fellow, consulting in
the areas of open source business, software engineering process, and
storage for high-performance computing.
He's been actively involved in open source and open development since
1992, contributing to a variety of technologies including enterprise
desktop, Linux, privacy and security, network file systems, and
consumer internet.
He co-founded CFS, co-developed its award-winning open-source Lustre
file system, and oversaw the company's first four profitable years as
Chief Executive. Lustre is used on most of the world's largest Linux
supercomputers, providing high-speed, POSIX-compliant storage for
governments, universities, and Fortune 100 companies worldwide.
At the Mozilla Corporation he directed an overhaul of localization for
Firefox 2.0, shipping the web browser simultaneously in 23 languages
for the first time. Approximately 20% of the world's internet
population uses Firefox as their primary browser, including a growing
proportion in languages other than English.
Previously, Phil executed the open-source strategy for zero-knowledge
systems, one of the most widely-discussed providers of privacy and
security software and services. He also helped develop a toolkit for
private electronic cash and one of the first commercial anonymous IP
networks.
Visitors and friends are most welcome.
*Getting there*
This month's seminar is being held in the ARRC auditorium in
Technology Park, located at:
Australian Resources Research Centre
26 Dick Perry Avenue
Technology Park
Kensington
As usual, you can find more information about PLUG's upcoming events
at
http://www.plug.org.au/events/.
-Patrick
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