Premium Document

Lustre Software – Product Review

Lustre is a scale-out file system typically used in High-Performance Computing applications. As a parallel distributed file system, Lustre is deployed where high parallelism and bandwidth are required. Lustre is open-source software developed originally as a research project at Carnegie Mellon and since has had commercial implementations distributed and supported as complete storage solutions. The first such company with a distribution and product was ClusterStor which was subsequently acquired by Sun Microsystems. Through different acquisitions and variations, the distribution and support for the commercial version is now with DataDirect Networks with Lustre offered in the DDN Exascaler product. The open-source distribution continues and is freely downloadable. Many add-on enhancements were developed independently and may be installed on top of the Lustre environment.

Architecturally, there is no limit to the number of nodes and capacity, but actual implementations are more modest, with the largest containing 2 Billion files and 55 PB in a production environment. With the open-source offering and high performance, a majority of Lustre implementations are in research labs and universities – often attached to supercomputers.

Lustre Software Product Brief includes:

  • Overview
  • Highlights
  • Usage
  • Futurum EvaluScale Product Review Methodology
  • Futurum Group’s Opinion

Download now to read the full product brief! 

Related Research

Share

DOCUMENT INFORMATION

Document Type:

Date:

March 6, 2025

Log-in or Contact Us to Access

This document is available for registered members with the required access.

Book a Demo

Welcome

The vision behind everything in Futurum’s Custom Research practice is this: research should show you what is happening, what comes next, and what to do about it. It should be personal to each audience, easy for people to grasp, and structured so LLMs can reason over it accurately. And it should be fast and turnkey; you want answers now, not another project to carry for quarters.

Whether you are defining business, channel, or go-to-market strategy; evaluating vendors or justifying ROI; or commissioning research to fill an emerging market need, we have your back, with a program that answers your questions with the objectivity and credibility to drive real decisions.

To do it, we bring unmatched data to bear: Futurum research, surveys, and market projections; validated market feeds; ETR’s 15 years of insight from 10,000 technology decision-makers; G2’s buyer and user data; and what our analysts hear every day. Add leading primary collection, from AI-moderated voice interviews to surveys and analyst-led interviews, all turnkey, and every project comes out credible, nuanced, and actionable.

And we don’t just drop the results in your lap. For internal work, we provide analyst-led sessions, interactive dashboards, and a range of formats. For market-facing work, Futurum delivers turnkey activation and amplification that actually gets seen, by people and by LLMs, through our media and share of voice. This is research that moves decisions and markets.

We will meet you wherever you are, from a fast-turn brief to a multi-year program, and shape the work to your goals, timeline, and budget. The right program for your moment.

If any of this is useful, I would love to talk.

Benjamin Brown, VP Custom Research, Futurum Research

Benjamin Brown

VP, Custom Research · The Futurum Group

Newsletter Sign-up Form

Get important insights straight to your inbox, receive first looks at eBooks, exclusive event invitations, custom content, and more. We promise not to spam you or sell your name to anyone. You can always unsubscribe at any time.

All fields are required






Thank you, we received your request, a member of our team will be in contact with you.