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CFS Lustre File System Featured In HP Storage Grid Architecture

Cluster File Systems Inc announced that its Lustre technology has been integrated in the HP StorageWorks Scalable File Share product (HP SFS). With initial deliveries planned for December, HP SFS delivers a production-tested distributed file server for Linux clusters at excellent price-performance ratios.

Cluster users worldwide have already begun to implement HP SFS to tackle their most demanding data performance and scalability issues. The Scientific Supercomputing Center of University Karlsruhe, the Southern Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructures in Southern Italy, and the University of Kentucky are just a few examples of early HP SFS adopters.

The HP StorageWorks SFS product utilizes the Lustre file system's object-based architecture to deliver breakthrough I/O bandwidth for Linux clusters. Building on this CFS(tm) technology, HP SFS enables users to deploy a single file system image on clusters with as many as tens of thousands of CPUs that are capable of throughput in excess of tens of gigabytes per second. Production-quality stability and failover are standard features, with zero single points of failure. As a testament to Lustre's capability, more than 100 teraflops worldwide are deployed in production environments by customers using Lustre to manage their most important data.

Support for HP SFS, backed by HP Services worldwide, is included in the HP XC v2 cluster management software. Lustre users can now benefit from a Red Hat compatible, HP supported, Linux operating system when using HP SFS with the HP XC v2 cluster management software.

HP supports HP SFS (with Lustre) on all of its HP Unified Cluster Portfolio Linux platforms, including Intel Xeon-based and AMD Opteron-based HP ProLiant servers running Linux and Intel Itanium 2-based HP Integrity servers running Linux.

The flexibility of this Lustre-based architecture allows HP SFS to deliver the performance, reliability, and price to match the differing storage needs of technical computing users. HP further increases the benefits of HP SFS by paying special attention to making this new technology easy to install and use, including additional ease-of-use and reliability features available only in the HP SFS product.

HP SFS is the second HP product based on the new StorageWorks Grid architecture, which was announced in May of this year. The advanced Object Based Storage architecture used for the Lustre design enabled rapid deployment of HP SFS as a leading example of a StorageWorks Grid product. These are innovative, virtualized, standards-based architectures that are improving the way storage is developed, deployed and managed.