From admin at opensfs.org Wed Jan 8 23:53:21 2014 From: admin at opensfs.org (OpenSFS Administration) Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 23:53:21 +0000 Subject: [Twg] Invitation to Join LUG Planning Committee Message-ID: <009101cf0ccc$d72a9eb0$857fdc10$@opensfs.org> Hello OpenSFS participants, Do you have opinions and suggestions for this year's LUG event? If so, we'd love your input! OpenSFS is forming the LUG 2014 planning committee and we're calling for participants! The LUG planning committee is a vital group of volunteers responsible for providing input, vetting presentation submissions, and advising on event details. If you've attended LUG and have feedback on what went well, suggested improvements, and speaking recommendations, we want to hear from you! On a company level, participation in the LUG planning committee will provide insight to LUG content and sessions, allow your company to influence the direction of LUG, and increase involvement in the Lustre community. The LUG planning committee will meet 2-4 times a month in order to review event plans, select presentation content, and ensure this year's LUG is a smashing success. We look forward to participation from the broader Lustre community. If you're interested in participating in the LUG planning committee, please contact OpenSFS Administration with the following information by Monday, January 13th. * Name * Company * Email * Time zone/physical location As a reminder, this year's LUG will be held in Miami, Florida, April 8-10th. Sponsorship opportunities and the call for presentations are now open! Stay tuned for registration information! Best Regards, OpenSFS Administration admin at opensfs.org Ph: 503-619-0561 Open Scalable File Systems, Inc. is a strong and growing nonprofit organization dedicated to the success of the Lustre(r) file system. OpenSFS was founded in 2010 to advance Lustre development, ensuring it remains vendor-neutral, open, and free. Since its inception, OpenSFS has been responsible for advancing the Lustre file system and delivering new releases on behalf of the open source community. Through working groups, events, and ongoing funding initiatives, OpenSFS harnesses the power of collaborative development to fuel innovation and growth of the Lustre file system worldwide. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From admin at opensfs.org Thu Jan 9 16:27:06 2014 From: admin at opensfs.org (OpenSFS Administration) Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 16:27:06 +0000 Subject: [Twg] Lustre Transparency and Momentum for 2014 Message-ID: <000c01cf0d57$a8d0dd50$fa7297f0$@opensfs.org> Happy New Year everyone! For our first 2014 post, we wanted to take a quick look back on the accomplishments of last year. In 2013, OpenSFS added two new Participants -- Fujitsu and NCSA -- and Intel moved up to Promoter level and joined the OpenSFS board. OpenSFS also pushed enhancements to our communications and marketing efforts, added more mature management infrastructure, continued funding the Lustre tree contract and added more Lustre development funding, supported enhanced feature availability, and had a significant hand in building a stronger foundation that the Lustre vendor ecosystem relies on for their product lines. In particular, we continued to contribute financially to Lustre. We spent over $3 million on Lustre technical development and maintenance in 2013, our largest annual commitment to date. Want to hear more? www.opensfs.org/lustre-transparency-momentum-2014/ Looking forward to working with you in 2014! Sincerely, The whole OpenSFS organization -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From admin at opensfs.org Thu Jan 9 21:28:26 2014 From: admin at opensfs.org (OpenSFS Administration) Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 21:28:26 +0000 Subject: [Twg] Nominations requested for your 2014 OpenSFS Community Representative Director - Due January 31st, 2014 Message-ID: <005501cf0d81$bded1fd0$39c75f70$@opensfs.org> Dear OpenSFS Adopters and Supporters, Nominations are now being accepted for candidates to serve as the 2014 OpenSFS Community Representative Director on the OpenSFS Board of Directors. This position will be open from April 2014 to April 2015. Nominations must be emailed to admin at opensfs.org before 5pm Pacific Time, Friday, January 31, 2013. Please take a moment to give this nomination serious consideration. The person selected for this position is responsible for representing the OpenSFS Supporter and Adopter Participants and has a full Board seat and voting rights to carry out that responsibility. Community participation is growing and we want to be sure all Supporters and Adopters have a strong voice in the decisions made by the OpenSFS Board. Your Community Board Member is guided by Supporter and Adopter values as the Board makes decisions for OpenSFS including how OpenSFS Development and Support funding is spent. We'd like to thank Tommy Minyard from Texas Advanced Computing Center for his excellent service as the 2013 Community Representative Director. Full details regarding the nomination process can be found online: www.opensfs.org/opensfs-community-rep-election/ Sincerely, Galen M. Shipman - Chairman, OpenSFS -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gshipman at ornl.gov Thu Jan 16 15:46:02 2014 From: gshipman at ornl.gov (Shipman, Galen M.) Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 10:46:02 -0500 Subject: [Twg] [Lustre-discuss] cmu RAIDFrame In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <2E69AF13-01BA-487D-9442-CFB0B54E45AB@ornl.gov> Rita, OpenSFS has funded design work to support advanced layouts (beyond just simple RAID 0). This work is managed by the OpenSFS Technical Working Group. If you want to keep up to speed on this work you can join the TWG email list: http://lists.opensfs.org/listinfo.cgi/twg-opensfs.org Here is a brief summary of the work: Project 1. Layout Enhancement Design Technical Description and Approach Lustre file layouts represent how file data is distributed over OSTs. Only simple RAID0 (striping) layouts are supported today, and enhancements are required to implement future features such as Data on MDS, Data Replication, live Data Migration, and RAID1/5/6 or erasure coding. Design goals are listed below. • Extend the Lustre layout to include the following formats: o N-way stripe replication. This is a requirement for the Data Replication project. It generalizes RAID0+1 to allow multiple replicas of the data in a Lustre file. This will ensure that data can remain available in the face of multiple OST failures - e.g. multiple short- or long-term OST failures. o RAID5/6 and erasure codes. These anticipate future developments to enable more space efficient replication techniques. o Layout extents. This allows different layouts in different extents of a Lustre file. • Determine additional requirements for algorithmic layouts – e.g. CRUSH. • Compatibility and version interoperation. The design work must address requirements to support rolling upgrades. Thanks, Galen On Jan 16, 2014, at 7:15 AM, Rita wrote: I was curious if the CMU RAIDFrame (network) has been implemented for Lustre. http://wiki.lustre.org/index.php/Architecture_-_Server_Network_Striping If not, are there still plans to implement this feature? It seems many distributed filesystems have some sort of redudancy built in but lustre is lacking this and I was curious if these types of features are in the spotlight. -- --- Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.-- _______________________________________________ Lustre-discuss mailing list Lustre-discuss at lists.lustre.org http://lists.lustre.org/mailman/listinfo/lustre-discuss From admin at opensfs.org Thu Jan 23 21:01:50 2014 From: admin at opensfs.org (OpenSFS Administration) Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 13:01:50 -0800 Subject: [Twg] Reminder - January 31st Deadline for OpenSFS Community Representative Director Nominations Message-ID: <004901cf187e$56729710$0357c530$@opensfs.org> Dear OpenSFS Adopters and Supporters, As a reminder, nominations are being accepted for candidates to serve as the 2014 OpenSFS Community Representative Director on the OpenSFS Board of Directors. This position will be open from April 2014 to April 2015. Nominations must be emailed to admin at opensfs.org before 5pm Pacific Time, Friday, January 31, 2014. Please take a moment to give this nomination serious consideration. The person selected for this position is responsible for representing the OpenSFS Supporter and Adopter Participants and has a full Board seat and voting rights to carry out that responsibility. Community participation is growing and we want to be sure all Supporters and Adopters have a strong voice in the decisions made by the OpenSFS Board. Your Community Board Member is guided by Supporter and Adopter values as the Board makes decisions for OpenSFS including how OpenSFS Development and Support funding is spent. We'd like to thank Tommy Minyard from Texas Advanced Computing Center for his excellent service as the 2013 Community Representative Director. Full details regarding the nomination process can be found at http://www.opensfs.org/opensfs-community-rep-election/. 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Don't miss your chance to submit a presentation for the 12th annual LustreR User Group (LUG) conference on April 8-10 at the Miami Marriott Biscayne Bay in Miami, Florida! All LUG presentations will be 30 minutes, with a total of 25 speaking opportunities available. We encourage you to review the agendas and caliber of presentations at past LUG events. Submission deadline is January 31! To submit an abstract: * Visit the LUG 2014 Call for Presentations Submission website * You will need to create a user account on Easy Chair (our online submission platform) if you don't already have one * After providing your user details via Easy Chair, you will be prompted to complete the online submission process * An abstract is only required for the submission process; presentation materials will be requested once abstracts are reviewed and selected LUG 2014 will also feature panel discussions where leading developers, vendors, and users of Lustre debate future requirements, explore upcoming enhancements, and share real world best practices. If you'd like to suggest a topic for a panel discussion - or be part of a panel, please contact admin at opensfs.org. Registration will open in February and additional event logistics are included on the LUG event page. Be sure to check back regularly, as speakers and session highlights will also be posted over the coming weeks. Please contact admin at opensfs.org if you have any questions. Best regards, OpenSFS LUG Planning Committee _________________________ OpenSFS Administration 3855 SW 153rd Drive Beaverton, OR 97006 USA Phone: +1 503-619-0561 | Fax: +1 503-644-6708 Twitter: @OpenSFS Email: admin at opensfs.org | Website: www.opensfs.org Click here to learn how to become a 2014 LUG Sponsor Open Scalable File Systems, Inc. was founded in 2010 to advance Lustre development, ensuring it remains vendor-neutral, open, and free. Since its inception, OpenSFS has been responsible for advancing the Lustre file system and delivering new releases on behalf of the open source community. Through working groups, events, and ongoing funding initiatives, OpenSFS harnesses the power of collaborative development to fuel innovation and growth of the Lustre file system worldwide. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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