Google Brings the Lustre Parallel File System to Its Cloud

Google Cloud now offers a fully managed version of the Lustre parallel file system. The Google Cloud Managed Lustre service went live (“general availability”) globally on July 8.

An open source, high-performance file system, Lustre has long been used in high-performance computing (or supercomputing) systems, for large-scale work such as weather modelling.

Google is presenting its Lustre offering as a lower-headache way of running those supercomputing jobs. And Lustre’s ability to stream data in the range of terabytes per second should…