Lustre has become the most widely used parallel file system in high performance computing environments.

But despite its wide adoption, traditional Lustre-based storage implementations have been difficult to configure, hard to manage and a struggle to tune in order to provide sufficient throughput as capacity configurations increase.

In response, the company developed its Lustre-based product portfolio, reaching a new level of achievement with the Cray Sonexion data storage system.

This whitepaper outlines the features and benefits of the Cray Sonexion Lustre appliance approach while comparing and contrasting it to traditional component-based approaches such as the Cray esFS.