<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Dear Lustre
Community Member:<br>
<br>
It is with great pleasure that I announce the establishment of Open Scalable
File Systems, Inc. (OpenSFS), a non-profit mutual benefit corporation focused
on the advancement and promotion of scalable, open-source file systems for
the high performance computing (HPC) and data intensive computing community.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">  </span>OpenSFS will focus initially on requirements
and priorities supporting Lustre™ file system stabilization and future
development on the Linux operating system.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Established with
the strategic support and multi-million dollar membership funding from the organization's
founding members - Cray Inc., DataDirect Networks Inc. (DDN), Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), OpenSFS
will provide a collaborative environment in which parallel file system
requirements can be aggregated, distilled, and prioritized to coordinate
development activities targeted at meeting the needs of the HPC community.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">  </span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Guided by
input from the entire Lustre™ community, OpenSFS participants will formalize
requirements for Lustre™ advancement (education, community outreach, new
features, bug fixes, etc.) and will establish priorities for those requirements
within OpenSFS to guide awarding contracts to Lustre™ developers to address
those requirements.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">  </span>The contracts will
be funded using OpenSFS participant dues.<br>
<br>
Following the example of successful open-source collaborative organizations
that have preceded it - OpenSFS aims to help establish the open source file
systems it promotes and contributes to as industry-wide open standards by
driving education, community outreach, stability, usability and forward-feature
development.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black">At its inception, OpenSFS is backed with funding levels and an organizational
structure that will allow an immediate positive impact for the Lustre™
community. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>We are now soliciting participation
to begin the requirements gathering and prioritization process.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">  </span>We would like your input, contribution, and
ongoing participation in OpenSFS and our various working groups to ensure that community
interests are best represented.  </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black">You can join the OpenSFS community by visiting us at </span><a href="http://opensfs.org/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0000CC">openSFS.org</span></a><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">.
 Here you will find our bylaws, participation terms, forms and working
group details as they become established (as some of the working groups are
still under construction, this is a good time to join and influence development).<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">  </span>An overview summary of the OpenSFS
organization, objectives and structure can also be found on our web site.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black">We will host an OpenSFS Information Session in parallel with SC10
in New Orleans
currently scheduled for 2:30-4:00pm on Tuesday November 16^th.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">  </span>We will give a short overview of OpenSFS and
answer questions regarding the organization as well as provide a chance for
everyone to meet and interact with other Lustre™ community members.  Details
regarding meeting location will be posted on our web site before SC10.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black">I and all the OpenSFS founding members invite you to join us in
improving existing and creating new open source file systems to support the HPC
environment.  Together, we can truly make a difference.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black">With Best Regards,</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black"> </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black">Norm Morse</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:black">President and CEO, OpenSFS</span></p>

<b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri;color:black;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:
EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA">norman.morse@OpenSFS.org</span></i></b>