Installation of an external lustre filesystem using cray esMS management and lustre 1.8.6
Patrick Webb · USENIX Large Installation Systems Administration Conference · 2013
High performance computing systems need a similarly large scale storage system in order to manage the massive quantities of data that are produced. The unique aspects of each customer's site means that the on-site configuration and creation of the filesystem will be unique. In this paper we will look at the installation of multiple separate Lustre 1.8.6 filesystems attached to the Los Alamos National Laboratory ACES systems and their management back-end. We will examine the structure of the filesystem and the choices made during the installation and configuration as well the obstacles that we encountered along the way and the methods used to overcome them.