Agreement Between Whamcloud and Swiss National Supercomputing Centre

Whamcloud, Inc., a
venture-backed company formed by a network of HPC storage industry veterans, announced a Lustre support agreement with the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS).

Founded in 1991 and situated in Lugano, Switzerland, CSCS is an
autonomous unit of the Swiss Federal
Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH Zurich). CSCS develops and promotes
technical and scientific services for Swiss research. CSCS has a Lustre-based
scratch file system for their supercomputer system, Monte Rosa, which
is a 47,872 core Cray XE6. For the file system, they have used the latest Intel
Sandy Bridge server hardware, FDR IB and Lustre v2.2.

"CSCS is one of the
shining stars in the European HPC community. We are thrilled to be working with
them at the leading-edge of Lustre technology," said Brent Gorda, CEO
of Whamcloud. "The combination of
Cray compute and Lustre is a winning combination and affords CSCS and Whamcloud
to focus down on metadata performance optimization and reliability for the
benefit of the entire community."

"When choosing leading
edge technologies CSCS must rely on a strong partnership with an industry
leader for Lustre support. We chose Whamcloud because we see them as the
premiere independent Lustre support and development company," said
Colin McMurtrie, group leader, National HPC Systems, CSCS-Swiss National
Supercomputing Centre. "We look
forward to a fruitful and mutually beneficial relationship over the coming
year."

Whamcloud and CSCS will be working together to drive performance
gains in Lustre metadata performance, tune and optimize the file system to get performance from the back-end storage hardware, and undertake a process to improve the reliability of the Lustre file system.