[Lustre-discuss] OpenSFS Information Meeting In Parallel With SC10

[Mag Gam]

stakeholder: Please consider making SNS a top priority. After waiting
several years we (I am sure many others) are  migrating to other more
fault tolerant filesystems.

On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 4:25 PM, Norman Morse <Norman.Morse at opensfs.org> wrote:
> lustre-discuss at lists.lustre.org
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> Inaugural OpenSFS Meeting At SC10 To Promote Open Parallel File System
> Advancement & Community Participation
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> HPC Industry Leaders To Host Session On The Lustre File System and Open
> Source Collaboration
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> Livermore, California, October 28, 2010 —  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.  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.
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> 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:
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> ·         End-user perspective on the status of the Lustre support and
> development ecosystem
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> ·         Organizational structure, objectives and development framework
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> ·         Sustainable long-term file system evolution initiatives through
> coordinated investment and community development
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> ·         Community engagement opportunities and consortium participation
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> “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.  “The organization has been designed to
> very openly engage users of all sizes.  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.”
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> Details of the meeting are as follows:
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> What:                2010 Annual OpenSFS SC Informational Meeting
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> When:               Tuesday, Nov 16th – 2:30-4PM CST, 2010
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> Where:              Ritz-Carlton, 921 Canal St. New Orleans, LA
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>             Broadmoor Room (1st floor)
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> To Attend:         Email event at opensfs.org with the number of attendees from
> your organization
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> About OpenSFS
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> 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.
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> 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.  More
> information can be found online at www.opensfs.org.
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