Comments on: Digging in to Oracle’s Lustre strategy: less is less http://insidehpc.com/2010/04/20/digging-in-to-oracles-lustre-strategy-less-is-less/ HPC News Without the Noise for Supercomputing Professionals | insideHPC Sun, 09 Jun 2013 01:54:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Terascala tries to put a coat of paint on Oracle’s Lustre changes | insideHPC.com http://insidehpc.com/2010/04/20/digging-in-to-oracles-lustre-strategy-less-is-less/#comment-230867 Terascala tries to put a coat of paint on Oracle’s Lustre changes | insideHPC.com Fri, 04 Jun 2010 18:14:05 +0000 http://insidehpc.com/?p=11047#comment-230867 [...] an open letter to customers on their website, outlining their take on how Oracle’s recent shifts in Lustre policy will impact Terascala customers Recently, Oracle has announced a planned roadmap for the Lustre [...] [...] an open letter to customers on their website, outlining their take on how Oracle’s recent shifts in Lustre policy will impact Terascala customers Recently, Oracle has announced a planned roadmap for the Lustre [...]

]]> By: Register reports that Oracle is pulling AMD chips from its hardware lineup | insideHPC.com http://insidehpc.com/2010/04/20/digging-in-to-oracles-lustre-strategy-less-is-less/#comment-229321 Register reports that Oracle is pulling AMD chips from its hardware lineup | insideHPC.com Fri, 28 May 2010 16:03:10 +0000 http://insidehpc.com/?p=11047#comment-229321 [...] example, that Oracle today couldn’t (or wouldn’t) build Ranger for TACC. This plus the recent Lustre news certainly adds fuel to this community’s speculation that Oracle’s commitment to HPC [...] [...] example, that Oracle today couldn’t (or wouldn’t) build Ranger for TACC. This plus the recent Lustre news certainly adds fuel to this community’s speculation that Oracle’s commitment to HPC [...]

]]> By: Lustre’s future, part 1 of a few « scalability.org http://insidehpc.com/2010/04/20/digging-in-to-oracles-lustre-strategy-less-is-less/#comment-222787 Lustre’s future, part 1 of a few « scalability.org Sat, 24 Apr 2010 18:00:15 +0000 http://insidehpc.com/?p=11047#comment-222787 [...] seeing the slides, speaking with some of the support team, seeing John West and John Leidel’s discussion of Lustre 2.0 on InsideHPC [...] [...] seeing the slides, speaking with some of the support team, seeing John West and John Leidel’s discussion of Lustre 2.0 on InsideHPC [...]

]]> By: Chris Samuel http://insidehpc.com/2010/04/20/digging-in-to-oracles-lustre-strategy-less-is-less/#comment-221938 Chris Samuel Wed, 21 Apr 2010 12:37:15 +0000 http://insidehpc.com/?p=11047#comment-221938 As I commented on Joe's blog about Lustre they have committed to keeping the canonical release branch of the filesystem in their public repos and to keep it GPL (they know very well they can't distribute non-GPL kernel code from their comments on Linux and ZFS in that same presentation), but there may well be user space bits that they may keep closed source. The thing I wonder about is whether they would consider supporting btrfs (their own pet FS project) as an alternative backend for Lustre (once btrfs has stabilised), that should give them the error checking they currently want from ZFS (and can't get under Linux currently). As I commented on Joe’s blog about Lustre they have committed to keeping the canonical release branch of the filesystem in their public repos and to keep it GPL (they know very well they can’t distribute non-GPL kernel code from their comments on Linux and ZFS in that same presentation), but there may well be user space bits that they may keep closed source.

The thing I wonder about is whether they would consider supporting btrfs (their own pet FS project) as an alternative backend for Lustre (once btrfs has stabilised), that should give them the error checking they currently want from ZFS (and can’t get under Linux currently).

]]> By: Jeff Darcy http://insidehpc.com/2010/04/20/digging-in-to-oracles-lustre-strategy-less-is-less/#comment-221799 Jeff Darcy Tue, 20 Apr 2010 23:19:54 +0000 http://insidehpc.com/?p=11047#comment-221799 Amusingly, I wrote about this very topic *exactly* one year ago - http://pl.atyp.us/wordpress/?p=2047. Long story short, it's not unlikely that Lustre will revert to the community - probably led by LLNL/ORNL or similar - and that might very well be the best thing for it. Amusingly, I wrote about this very topic *exactly* one year ago – http://pl.atyp.us/wordpress/?p=2047. Long story short, it’s not unlikely that Lustre will revert to the community – probably led by LLNL/ORNL or similar – and that might very well be the best thing for it.

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