The Lustre® file system has played a significant role in the high performance computing industry since its release in 2003. Lustre is used in many of the top HPC supercomputers in the world today, and has a strong development community behind it. Last week, Xyratex announced plans to purchase the Lustre trademark, logo, website and associated intellectual property from Oracle, who acquired them with the purchase of Sun Microsystems in 2010. Xyratex will assume responsibility for customer support for Lustre and has pledged to continue its investment in and support of the open source community development.
Both Xyratex and the Lustre community will benefit from the purchase. The Lustre community now has an active, stable promoter whose experience and expertise is aligned with their major market segment, HPC, and Xyratex can confidently continue to leverage the Lustre file system to drive increased value in their ClusterStor™ product line, which integrates Mellanox InfiniBand and Ethernet solutions. In a blog post from Ken Claffey on the Xyratex website, the point was made that Xyratex’ investment in Lustre is particularly important to the company, as Xyratex sees its business “indelibly intertwined with the health and vibrancy of the Lustre community” and offers all of its storage solutions based on the Lustre file system. Sounds like a winning proposition for both sides.
Find out more about Xyratex’ acquisition of Lustre: http://www.xyratex.com/news/press-releases/xyratex-advances-lustre%C2%AE-initiative-assumes-ownership-related-assets
http://community.mellanox.com/groups/storage
