Cluster File Systems Closes Deal with Oak Ridge National Labs.Contract Worth $4.7 Million Over Three Years BOULDER, Colo. & TAMPA, Fla. -- Cluster File Systems Cluster File Systems, Inc. (CFS) is the company that originally developed the Lustre distributed file system. CFS was a privately held company with offices in the United States, Canada, and China. CFS was founded in 2001 by Dr. Peter Braam. [TM], Inc. (CFS CFS abbr. chronic fatigue syndrome CFS, n.pr See syndrome, chronic fatigue. CFS Chronic fatigue syndrome, see there ), announced that it has contracted with the Department of Energy Oak Ridge National Laboratory Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is a multiprogram science and technology national laboratory managed for the United States Department of Energy by UT-Battelle, LLC. ORNL is located in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, near Knoxville. (ORNL ORNL Oak Ridge National Laboratory ) to provide Lustre lustre In mineralogy, the appearance of a mineral surface in terms of its light-reflecting qualities. Lustre depends on a mineral's refractivity (see refraction), transparency, and structure. [R] File System support and development. The agreement is part of a DOE Office of Science initiative to deliver a one petaflop Cray system for open science research in 2008. To help in this development effort, CFS will create an on-site Lustre Centre of Excellence[TM] at ORNL's Leadership Computing Facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee Oak Ridge is an incorporated city in Anderson and Roane Counties in East Tennessee, about 25 miles northwest of Knoxville. Oak Ridge's population was 27,387 people at the 2000 census. . The initial three year contract for the Lustre Centre of Excellence is valued at $4.7 million. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Buddy Bland, Director of the Leadership Computing Facility at ORNL, "We use Lustre on all our production supercomputers today and the Lustre Centre of Excellence is a key part of our plan to reach our petascale science goals. We look forward to working with Cluster File Systems to further develop their technology." "We are looking forward to a long and fruitful relationship with Oak Ridge National Labs, and we are thrilled to be part of their historic effort to advance the limits of supercomputing," said Dr. Peter Braam, President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Cluster File Systems, Inc. "Our work with ORNL will enable Linux storage to scale to completely unprecedented capacities." 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 The National Leadership Computing Facility, or NLCF for short, is a designated user facility operated by Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Department of Energy. It contains several supercomputers, the largest of which is a 119TF Cray XT4 system named Jaguar, which is , one of the world's largest high-performance computing centers for scientific and energy research. Go to www.ornl.gov for more information. Lustre, the Lustre logo, Cluster File Systems, CFS, and Lustre Centre of Excellence are trademarks of Cluster File Systems, Inc. in the United States. All other names are property of their respective owners. |
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