Whamcloud Wants to Make Lustre Easier to Use

IDG News Service — Whamcloud has started developing a new GUI that will make it easier to manage the open source file system Lustre, the company said this week at the International Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg.

Massively parallel file system

Lustre is a massively parallel file system, and is used for storing large amounts of data across multiple nodes. The innovation has made a name for itself in the high-performance supercomputing sector, and is used across a large percentage of the world's fastest computers, including China's Tianhe-1A system.

Whamcloud, which focuses on high-performance computing, has a hardware-agnostic policy that it is carrying over to the new GUI. There are already GUIs for Lustre, however they are tied to a specific vendor's hardware, Spray said.