Norman Morse
2010-Oct-19 11:58 UTC
[Lustre-discuss] Announce the establishment of Open Scalable File Systems, Inc. (OpenSFS)
Dear Lustre Community Member: It is with great pleasure that I announce the establishment of Open Scalable File Systems, Inc. (OpenSFS), a non-profit mutual benefit corporation focused on the advancement and promotion of scalable, open-source file systems for the high performance computing (HPC) and data intensive computing community. OpenSFS will focus initially on requirements and priorities supporting Lustre? file system stabilization and future development on the Linux operating system. Established with the strategic support and multi-million dollar membership funding from the organization''s founding members - Cray Inc., DataDirect Networks Inc. (DDN), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), OpenSFS will provide a collaborative environment in which parallel file system requirements can be aggregated, distilled, and prioritized to coordinate development activities targeted at meeting the needs of the HPC community. Guided by input from the entire Lustre? community, OpenSFS participants will formalize requirements for Lustre? advancement (education, community outreach, new features, bug fixes, etc.) and will establish priorities for those requirements within OpenSFS to guide awarding contracts to Lustre? developers to address those requirements. The contracts will be funded using OpenSFS participant dues. Following the example of successful open-source collaborative organizations that have preceded it - OpenSFS aims to help establish the open source file systems it promotes and contributes to as industry-wide open standards by driving education, community outreach, stability, usability and forward-feature development. At its inception, OpenSFS is backed with funding levels and an organizational structure that will allow an immediate positive impact for the Lustre? community. We are now soliciting participation to begin the requirements gathering and prioritization process. We would like your input, contribution, and ongoing participation in OpenSFS and our various working groups to ensure that community interests are best represented. You can join the OpenSFS community by visiting us at openSFS.org<http://opensfs.org/>. Here you will find our bylaws, participation terms, forms and working group details as they become established (as some of the working groups are still under construction, this is a good time to join and influence development). An overview summary of the OpenSFS organization, objectives and structure can also be found on our web site. We will host an OpenSFS Information Session in parallel with SC10 in New Orleans currently scheduled for 2:30-4:00pm on Tuesday November 16th. We will give a short overview of OpenSFS and answer questions regarding the organization as well as provide a chance for everyone to meet and interact with other Lustre? community members. Details regarding meeting location will be posted on our web site before SC10. I and all the OpenSFS founding members invite you to join us in improving existing and creating new open source file systems to support the HPC environment. Together, we can truly make a difference. With Best Regards, Norm Morse President and CEO, OpenSFS *norman.morse at OpenSFS.org* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.lustre.org/pipermail/lustre-discuss/attachments/20101019/31d14acf/attachment-0001.html