<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; "> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black">Inaugural OpenSFS Meeting At SC10 To Promote Open Parallel File
System Advancement & Community Participation</span></b>

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text-align:center;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">HPC Industry Leaders To Host Session On The
Lustre File System and Open Source Collaboration</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Livermore,
California, October 28, 2010 — </span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>OpenSFS, a non-profit corporation focused on
advancing the collaborative development of open-source parallel file system
technologies, today announced its first annual SC Informational Meeting to be
scheduled at this year’s SC10 International Conference for High Performance
Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis in New Orleans, LA.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">  </span>At this open session, OpenSFS members and
prospective members are invited to participate in a forum designed to introduce
this newly-formed and substantially-funded organization and its focus on the
Lustre^® open source parallel file system.</span></p>

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mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">At this first formal meeting of the
OpenSFS organization, members of the Lustre community will engage in a
structured series of discussions that will span several of current topics,
including:</span></p>

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mso-bidi-font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">        
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">End-user perspective on the status
of the Lustre support and development ecosystem</span></p>

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</span></span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Organizational structure, objectives
and development framework</span></p>

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</span></span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Sustainable long-term file system
evolution initiatives through coordinated investment and community development</span></p>

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</span></span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Community engagement opportunities
and consortium participation</span></p>

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normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">“The OpenSFS consortium has been
designed from the ground up to provide a positive long-term benefit to Lustre
users through the coordinated requirements gathering and investment from the worldwide
user community.” said Norm Morse, CEO of OpenSFS.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">  </span>“The organization has been designed to very openly
engage users of all sizes.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">  </span>With
membership fees as low as $5,000 annually – stakeholders are provided a forum
to influence the future of open-source file system technology while working
within budgetary constraints.”</span></p>

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normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></p>

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normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Details of the meeting are as
follows:</span></p>

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normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">What:<span style="mso-tab-count:
2">                </span>2010 Annual OpenSFS SC Informational Meeting</span></p>

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normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">When:<span style="mso-tab-count:
2">               </span>Tuesday, Nov 16th – 2:30-4PM CST, 2010 </span></p>

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normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">Where:<span style="mso-tab-count:
2">              </span>Ritz-Carlton, 921 Canal St. New Orleans, LA</span></p>

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.5in;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""><span style="mso-tab-count:1">            </span>Broadmoor
Room (1st floor)</span></p>

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normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">To Attend: <span style="mso-tab-count:
1">        </span>Email <a href="mailto:event@opensfs.org">event@opensfs.org</a>
with the number of attendees from your organization</span></p>

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mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman""> </span></p>

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.75in 3.0in"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">About OpenSFS</span></b></p>

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normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Founded
in 2010, OpenSFS is a non-profit California corporation focused on high-end,
open-source file system technologies. The goals of the organization are to
provide a forum for collaboration among entities deploying file systems on
leading edge HPC systems, to communicate future requirements to open-source
file system developers, and to support file system releases which have been
designed to meet these goals. The group's initial focus is the Lustre parallel
file system, which supports many of the requirements of leadership class HPC
simulation environments, has a diverse development community and is open-source
software.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">  </span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Founded
by Cray Inc., Data Direct Networks (DDN) Inc., Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory (LLNL) and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), OpenSFS draws from
over $2 million of combined funding to ensure substantial and sustained
community benefit through advancing the stability, usability and scalability of
sophisticated open-source file system technology.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">  </span>More information can be found online at <a href="http://www.opensfs.org/">www.opensfs.org</a>.</span></p>

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mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"">All trademarks are the property of
their respective owners. </span></p>

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