[Twg] Xyratex plans

[Peter Bojanic]

Thanks, Nathan.

Just to add to this: Xyratex is a public company and must manage public communications with a view to its broader business and product portfolio. In our Q1 FY2011 earnings call on March 31, 2011, our CEO Steve Barber has officially announced Xyratex's intentions to move forward with Lustre and to deliver new products in support of this growth market. We may now discuss elements of our plan much more freely with the HPC community, in particular our goals for Lustre in support of our business.

We look forward to a much more open collaboration involving Lustre.

Cheers,
Bojanic

On Apr 1, 2011, at 19:05 , Nathan Rutman wrote:

> Addressing concerns raised in the twg call yesterday:
> 
> We (Xyratex internally) are all agreed that we need to provide more 'transparency' to the community as to what we are
> doing with Lustre and our intentions regarding contributions to the community. We will be setting up a
> Lustre community page on our website where we will be publishing our roadmap, white papers and other relevant content.
> 
> Our roadmap will be available at LUG 2011, but in the meantime here is a brief list of the Lustre topics that Xyratex is interested in pursuing.  Paths forward to all these items will be published in the roadmap.  Many of these align with stated OpenSFS goals; apologies for not being able to publish this information sooner.
> 
> 4MB RPCs
> Persistent, fast OSS write flash caches
> Metadata flash caches
> NRS
> Fully-wide striping (e.g. all or almost all OSTs)
> Client metadata concurrency (remove MDC semaphore)
> Simplified SOM (using metadata flash)
> MDS threading improvements
> 100B files per FS
> 1B files per directory
> scalable fsck
> end-to-end data integrity
> larger LUN sizes
> FS replication
> 
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