Cluster File Systems

Cluster File Systems, Inc.

Type	Private
Industry	High Performance Computing
Founded	2001
Founder(s)	Dr. Peter J. Braam
Headquarters	Boulder, Colorado, United States
Key people	Phil Schwan, Eric Barton, Andreas Dilger
Products	Lustre file system
Website	http://www.clusterfs.com/

Cluster File Systems, Inc. (CFS) is the company that originally developed the Lustre distributed file system. CFS was a privately held company with offices in the United States, and China.

CFS was founded in 2001 by Dr. Peter Braam. Significant customers and partners include Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories, the National Nuclear Security Administration, Hewlett-Packard and Cray.

On September 12, 2007, Sun Microsystems, Inc. signed an agreement to acquire CFS.^[1] The acquisition was completed on October 1, 2007.

References

1. ^ Sun Microsystems Expands High Performance Computing Portfolio with Definitive Agreement to Acquire Assets of Cluster File Systems, Including the Lustre File System, press release, September 12, 2007.