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DataDirect Networks (DDN) reaffirmed its leadership of the Lustre community today by announcing its continued support for Open Scalable File Systems, Inc. (OpenSFS), a nonprofit Lustre community group, at the highest membership level. DDN's ongoing investment in Lustre, a massively parallel open-source file system used for large-scale cluster computing, has exceeded more than $10M to date.

Released in 2009, DDN's EXAScaler file storage system was the first Lustre appliance in the storage industry and helped expand Lustre's user base both within the traditional supercomputing community and beyond. Currently, 75% of all identifiable Lustre sites in the Top500 ranking of the world's fastest supercomputers rely on DDN, including Oak Ridge National Laboratory, NASA's Ames Research Center, France's Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique (CEA), McGill University, and the Tokyo Institute of Technology (TiTech).

"No other company invests more heavily in Lustre than DDN," said Jeff Denworth, Vice President of Marketing, DataDirect Networks. "Our engineering and professional services experts have devoted thousands of hours to optimizing Lustre deployments worldwide, and we are pleased to fully support OpenSFS as it continues to develop vital resources for the HPC community."

DDN is one of four co-founders of OpenSFS, and a DDN executive has served on the organization's Board of Directors since its inception.

"DDN is a pre-eminent Lustre leader," said Norman Morse, president and CEO of OpenSFS. "The investment in OpenSFS by DDN and other organizations will help further the development of open source scalable file systems like Lustre to the benefit of the entire HPC community."

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