Cluster File Systems Launches Lustre Centre of Excellence.Joint Venture with Oak Ridge National Labs Targets Petaflop Supercomputer Initiative 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 established its first 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. Centre of Excellence[TM] in partnership 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 ). The Lustre Centre of Excellence is located at the ORNL 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. . It is part of a DOE Office of Science initiative to deliver a one petaflop Cray system for open science research in 2008. The Leadership Computing Facility uses Lustre[R] technology across all its production supercomputers today. The Lustre Centre of Excellence at ORNL focuses on three goals * Enhancing the scalability of the Lustre File System to meet the performance requirements of petascale systems * Building Lustre expertise through training and workshops * Assisting science teams in getting the maximum I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output performance from their applications "The Lustre Centre of Excellence will be a catalyst for scientific breakthroughs," said Thomas Zacharia, Associate Laboratory Director for computing at ORNL. "Moreover, it will become a focal point for universities, labs, and vendors to come together and use the flexibility and open source status of Lustre to create solutions to the their high performance file system needs." "A growing number of Super Computing sites are turning to Lustre Software to meet the requirements for high performance and scalability. We want to make sure that we will meet their demands well into the future," 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. "The establishment of Lustre Centres of Excellence will allow us to partner with the world's leading HPC (Handheld PC) A palmtop computer that weighs less than one pound and runs specialized versions of popular applications. Microsoft coined the term for its Windows CE operating system, which is an abbreviated version of Windows. See Pocket PC. developers, such as ORNL, in a concerted effort to break down performance barriers to very large scale cluster computing." 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. 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