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Cluster File Systems, Inc., the leader in high-performance parallel file systems, released a major update to the Lustre file system on its public download site. Used on many of the world's largest Linux clusters, Lustre 1.2.4 represents a significant advancement in the development of a world-class open-source file system. This release further demonstrates Cluster File Systems' ongoing commitment to make new versions of Lustre available to the free software community on a regular basis. The Lustre file system is a next-generation cluster storage solution, designed to serve clusters with up to tens of thousands of nodes, manage petabytes of storage, and move hundreds of gigabytes per second with state of the art security and management infrastructure. Improvements in Lustre 1.2.4 over the previous publicly available version include: support for Intel Itanium, Intel EM64T, and AMD64 Architectures support for Linux 2.6 support for the Quadrics QsNet II (Elan 4) interconnect a disaster recovery tool (lfsck) support for Object Storage Server addition zero-configuration Lustre clients very many improvements to performance and stability demonstrated capability on systems with more than 1,200 nodes and 300 TB of storage, at more than 11 GB/s Downloading Lustre To download Lustre 1.2.4, please visit http://www.clusterfs.com/download.html