Sun Microsystens announced a definitive agreement pursuant to which Sun will acquire the majority of Cluster File Systems, Inc.'s intellectual property and business assets, including the Lustre File System. By acquiring Cluster File Systems, Inc., the leading parallel file system provider, Sun intends to add support for Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) on Lustre and plans to continue enhancing Lustre on Linux and Solaris OS across multi vendor hardware platforms. As previously announced in July 2007, Sun also plans to deliver Lustre servers on top of Sun's industry-leading open source Solaris ZFS solution, which is one of the fastest growing storage virtualization technology in the marketplace.
Wow. That's not exactly some news that I can say I am comfortable with. While I have not been a fan of CFS' rate of development or, in general their file system, they have been at least a competitor with IBM's GPFS. There are a few others that are competitive here, but not many. CFS and IBM are the big dogs, so to speak. Since my work is in center wide - and sometimes wide area - file systems, I definitely have some keen interest to see how this plays out.
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Question about pelycosaurs: I hear conflicting reports that the group (traditionally known for Dimetrodon and Edaphosaurus, but obvious there were many more taxa, like Sphenodon) is paraphyletic. Any resolution there?
Not the expert as yet. I'm still in the learning stages.
Query though: why are you posting about the paleo post in the HPC post, Zach?!
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