Google Tech Talks June 23, 2007 ABSTRACT 2007 Google Seattle Conference on Scalability: Lustre File System Speaker: Peter Braam, Cluster File Systems, Inc. Lustre is a scalable open source Linux cluster file system that powers 6 of the top 10 computers in the world. It is resold by HP, SUN, Dell and many other OEM and storage companies, yet produced by a small powerful technology company, Cluster File Systems, Inc. This lecture will explain the Lustre architecture and then focus on how scalability was achieved. We will address many aspects of scalability mostly from the field and some from future requirements, from having 25,000 clients in the Red Storm computer to offering exabytes of storage. Performance is an important focus and we will discuss how Lustre serves up over 100GB/sec today going to 100TB/sec in the coming years. It will deliver millions of metadata operations per second in a cluster and, write 10's of thousands of small files per second on a single...