Lustre RA High Performance Storage Solution

Key Features:

We can assist you whether you need to integrate your new storage solution into an existing network or set up something completely new.

• High Performance: Designed for maximum I/O throughput, achieving several terabytes per second of sustained I/O bandwidth.
• Scalability: Effortlessly scale to support thousands of clients and handle hundreds of petabytes of storage without any need for modifications.
• Open source: Benefit from continuous community-driven development, ensuring rapid innovation, wide compatibility, and cost savings on licensing fees.
• Tunability: Lustre offers extensive configuration options, allowing the allocation of files across the system based on different workload types and specifying which servers or groups of disks files should be allocated to.
• Configurable Networking: Lustre includes built-in features to control network utilization and allows servers to act as "gateway routers" for communication across different network types, such as Ethernet and InfiniBand.
• Migration: With a skilled admin team, phasing out old hardware and storage, and migrating data to new storage, becomes a seamless process.
• Ease of Integration: Easily integrates into existing Lustre installations. Because Lustre supports a limited number of operating systems and versions, its specialized focus ensures optimized performance and reliability within the Lustre platform.

Lustre requires a skilled administrative staff for proper maintenance. Organizations such as the Department of Energy National Laboratories including Lawrence Livermore, Sandia, Oak Ridge as well as Los Alamos’ Cielo supercomputer is supported by the Lustre file system due to the size of their machines and I/O requirements.

Lustre storage is best known for powering 7 of the 10 largest HPC clusters in the world, with many of these systems supporting:

Custom Storage Solutions

At Silicon Mechanics, we specialize in designing and implementing Lustre storage systems tailored to your unique requirements. Our collaborative process ensures that your storage solution is co-designed with your specific needs in mind, from initial planning to deployment. You can rely on us for expert answers and guidance on how to get started, including:

• Designing a robust hardware and software architecture
• OS support options
• Integrating with existing systems, interfaces, and applications
• Tuning and optimizing system performance