Comment I think you are mistaken about lustre. (Score 1) 159
actually, I know you are mistaken about lustre. Lustre is a regular kernel filesystem just like CXFS, stornext, GFS, or GPFS. In the case of puma or bluegene you have to link it into the application, but not on linux. The point, however, remains. SGI has used CXFS to sell its hardware, which was awesome at the time, but it limits the ability of rackable to make a business out of selling CXFS as a stand-alone product. IDeally you would want to sell CXFS licenses on every commodity cluster out there, your own, or the competition. Sun has that now, with lustre. Lustre is run on IBM clusters, HP clusters, even SGI clusters. I doubt rackable could turn CXFS into that product and displace lustre from very many machines.