Intel Enterprise Edition for Lustre Software v3.1 Released

Intel’s Lustre Team announced the availability of Intel® Enterprise Edition for Lustre software version 3.1. The Intel Lustre platform currently owns a better than 50% share of the HPC storage market and deployed in better than 60% of the TOP100 supercomputing sites in the world. 

Partnering with the Intel Lustre Team, RAID Inc. unleashes Lustre storage solutions with up to 180 GB/s performance with the scalable Lustre ZFS parallel file system for HPC workloads, including technical Big Data applications. ZFS Lustre solutions can reduce storage costs by better than 50% versus traditional storage.

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory selects RAID Inc. for a 17 petabyte deployment custom-tuned Lustre on ZFS parallel file system in its high performance computing center.

New for Intel Enterprise Edition for Lustre Software v3.1

This release builds on Intel EE for Lustre software v3.0 and delivers a number of key enhancements and features:

Intel EE for Lustre Software & OpenZFS

Intel EE for Lustre software storage solutions are designed to exploit the data resiliency and enhanced volume management capabilities available with OpenZFS. Improvements have been made to OpenZFS which improve overall metadata performance. With these changes, the file create rates with an OpenZFS backed metadata target are significantly increased.

Intel Manager for Lustre Supports OpenZFS Managed Mode

These enhancements allow the installation of OpenZFS packages, formatting of storage, and incorporation of storage volumes into the HA framework. Intel® Manager for Lustre simplifies the deployment and management of Lustre servers using OpenZFS. A new hierarchical drill-down view provides context-driven presentation of storage asset information. Users can navigate through the UI more easily, aided by a “tree view” and “breadcrumb” navigation. Updated jobstats monitoring displays the most active jobs consuming filesystem IO in an easy to read format. Jobstats monitoring makes it simpler for storage administrators to view and troubleshoot IO issues affecting the storage cluster.

Bulk IO Performance

Lustre support for RPCs up to 16MB in size, reduces the number of RPCs needed between clients and servers, improving performance for workloads that require large scale streaming IO.

Subdirectory Mounts

Clients can mount a child directory of a file system, restricting visibility of the Lustre namespace to a subset of the global directory structure. This limits a client’s view of the Lustre directory structure to only those files within the named sub-directory tree.

RAID Inc. is committed to ongoing innovation with the Lustre community. This Lustre release from Intel helps provides the benefits of the Intel® Scalable System Framework using the parallel file system of choice for HPC, big data center and data-intensive enterprise environments.