Lustre
Lustre is a high-performance, scalable parallel distributed file system designed for large-scale cluster computing and high-performance computing (HPC) environments. It provides shared file storage across multiple servers and clients, enabling fast data access and management for applications requiring massive I/O throughput, such as scientific simulations, big data analytics, and AI/ML workloads. Lustre is open-source and widely used in supercomputers, research institutions, and enterprise data centers.
Developers should learn and use Lustre when working in HPC or large-scale data-intensive environments where low-latency, high-bandwidth file access is critical, such as in scientific research, weather modeling, or financial analysis. It is essential for managing petabytes of data across thousands of nodes, offering features like striping, replication, and failover to ensure reliability and performance. Use cases include running simulations on supercomputers, processing large datasets in AI training, or handling real-time analytics in cloud infrastructures.