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As commodity clusters continue to grow in performance and more applications adopt parallel I/O traditional filesystems such as NFS, NAS, SAN and DAS are failing to keep up with HPC I/O demand. The Lustre parallel filesystem is gaining ground within the departmental and workgroup HPC space since it has proved capable of meeting the high I/O workload within HPC environments, as well as presenting a range of additional operational benefits as described in the introduction.

This paper presents a detailed description of how to build a Dell PowerVault MD3200 Lustre storage brick, presenting a current best-in-class commodity Lustre. The storage brick as described shows good sequential I/O throughput, good IOPS/metadata performance, high redundancy, high availability with good data safety features, all of which are important within the HPC environment.