The Lustre® High Performance File System
A White Paper by
G. Winfield Treese
December 2006/revised February 2009
8 pages
The challenges of high-performance I/O are the challenges of scaling in many dimensions.
The Lustre file system is a powerful approach to addressing the problems of scale. The
Lustre file system was developed by Cluster File Systems (CFS); it evolved from research
on innovative storage architectures at Carnegie-Mellon University.
