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List:       lustre-announce
Subject:    [Lustre-announce] Lustre User Group Wrap-Up
From:       jeff () clusterfs ! com (Jeffrey Denworth)
Date:       2006-05-09 0:42:19
Message-ID: DFE4F869-CF70-4F3A-9474-3AB26D71E84D () clusterfs ! com
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Greetings Lustre Users -

As many of you know, CFS recently commenced the 4th annual Lustre  
User Group (LUG) which was held on the week of April 17 in (mostly)  
sunny Hilton Head, North Carolina.  For the benefit of the Lustre  
Community - I wanted to take a moment and summarize the activities  
and responses we've seen from the conference:

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-Attendance-
2006 marks another growth year for Lustre and CFS - as such,  
attendance at the LUG was up approximately 40% from the Spring 2005  
meeting.  It was wonderful to see many of our long time friends, as  
well as meet some of our newer users.
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-User Presentations-
There were a variety of user and vendor presentations delivered at  
the User Group.  The presentations are being posted to http:// 
www.clusterfs.com/lustre2006.html as we receive them from the  
presenters.
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-Open Development-
The topic of open development has circulated around Lustre frequently  
over the past few months.  As such, discussions at the User Group  
served to lay the foundations for a more concentrated and coordinated  
community effort.  We are seeing some encouraging early  
demonstrations of these efforts, targeted at improving Lustre and its  
usability.  To name a few:
- Myricom is contributing a Lustre Networking Driver for their  
Myrinet Express (MX) Software Layer for their 10Gb products
- Scalable Systems has developed a Lustre Roll for the ROCKS Cluster  
Distribution Suite
Those hoping to contribute are encouraged to subscribe to lustre- 
devel@clusterfs.com to help shape, monitor and engage this growing  
community.
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-Lustre Requirements Forum Results-
Toward the end of the conference - Lustre Users were given the  
opportunity to identify, discuss and prioritize their requirements  
from the Lustre File System.  After some systematic selection of  
possible Lustre improvements, we were able to identify the following  
five items (in order of importance) as the most pressing Lustre User  
Requirements:

1 - Understandable and documented error messages; More simplified  
troubleshooting
2 - OST stripe management for:
	- Storage Pools
	- The ability to join and extend files across multiple OSTs
	- background migration
3 - Improved Logging, Debugging and Diagnostic tools; NID logic; per- 
client statistics
4 - Lustre HPSS copy, using DMAPI
5 - I/O & metadata performance profiling, analysis, and reporting

Other suggested improvements can be found prioritized at https:// 
mail.clusterfs.com/wikis/lustre.  Over the next few months, CFS will  
work to align its development priorities with this list to better  
suit the wishes of its User Community.  Additionally, we are actively  
seeking the contributions of the community to define these efforts  
and contribute in various ways to their development.
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I'd like to thank all of the attendees for making this year's Lustre  
User Group very productive.  Please feel free to contact us with any  
questions or comments related to this meeting.  We look forward to  
seeing everyone at the next User Group, where we hope to have much to  
report back to you!

Jeffrey Denworth
Director of Sales
Cluster File Systems, Inc.

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