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Lustre

Last updated May 16, 2025, generated by Sumble

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What is Lustre?

Lustre is a parallel distributed file system, generally used for large-scale cluster computing. It provides high-throughput and low-latency access to storage, making it suitable for high-performance computing (HPC) environments, scientific simulations, and data-intensive applications.

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What other technologies are related to Lustre?

Lustre Competitor Technologies

GPFS (now IBM Spectrum Scale) is a parallel file system like Lustre, offering similar functionality for high-performance computing environments.

mentioned alongside Lustre in 68% (1.7k) of relevant job posts

BeeGFS is another parallel file system that competes with Lustre in the high-performance storage market.

mentioned alongside Lustre in 72% (407) of relevant job posts

Spectrum Scale (formerly GPFS) is a parallel file system competing with Lustre.

mentioned alongside Lustre in 54% (115) of relevant job posts

WekaIO is a parallel file system solution and as such competes with Lustre.

mentioned alongside Lustre in 86% (62) of relevant job posts

SpectrumScale (formerly GPFS) is a parallel filesystem and a direct competitor.

mentioned alongside Lustre in 92% (57) of relevant job posts

Gluster is a distributed file system. Though targeted for scale-out object storage more than HPC, it still is an alternative file storage solution.

mentioned alongside Lustre in 28% (174) of relevant job posts

Lustre Complementary Technologies

InfiniBand is a high-speed interconnect often used with Lustre to provide the necessary bandwidth for parallel file system operations.

mentioned alongside Lustre in 24% (1.3k) of relevant job posts

Slurm is a workload manager often used in conjunction with Lustre to schedule and manage jobs that utilize the file system.

mentioned alongside Lustre in 20% (1.6k) of relevant job posts

PBS Professional is a workload manager, similar to Slurm, that can be used with Lustre to manage HPC workloads.

mentioned alongside Lustre in 86% (133) of relevant job posts

Which job functions mention Lustre?

Job function

Jobs mentioning Lustre

Orgs mentioning Lustre

Engineering & R&D

0% (1.7k) job posts

1 organizations

Engineer

0% (1.6k) job posts

137 organizations

Administrator

0% (699) job posts

198 organizations

Systems Engineer

0% (458) job posts

113 organizations

Solutions Architect

0% (148) job posts

26 organizations

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Which organizations are mentioning Lustre?

Organization

Industry

Matching Teams

Matching People

Scientific and Technical Services

Scientific and Technical Services

Hewlett Packard Enterprise | HPE

Scientific and Technical Services

Professional Services

Professional Services

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