Lustre High Performance Parallel File System

2026-11-03

The Mississippi State University High Performance Computing Collaboratory request bids for a lustre high performance parallel file system ( HPFS ) to replace an existing lustre file system as well as extended maintenance and support of the existing lustre HPFS to be replaced . All flash lustre data storage system shall meet or exceed these requirements : 10PB usable ( utilizing no compression ) mounted as a single file system . Delivered as a complete fully functional turnkey system . Support a minimum 3500 linux ( Rocky 9 . 1 to 9 . 6 ) clients . Shall utilize QLC or TLC NVMe for capacity storage , SED required including any licensing . Shall use appropriate solid state storage for metadata . 3 Support project and user quotas for size and file quantity . Provide for no single point of failure . Must include power cables , rail kit for rack mounting and cable management arms , system cables , etc ... Provide fully redundant capabilities including but not limited to power supplies , controllers , i / o modules , network connections , etc ... Must be connected to existing High Speed Network ( HSN ) that utilizes an infiniband NDR switch fabric . A minimum of four uplink connections shall be utilized . Infiniband cables will be provided by MSU for fabric connection . Must connect to the existing Management Network ( MN ) for management functions Shall support declustered raid or equivalent Controller appliances shall consist of a minimum of 2x controllers ( active / active ) each supporting multiple vm ’ s with fail over . Shall utilize battery backed mirrored cache if applicable . Shall support hot swap components including but not limited to power supplies , fans , i / o modules , drives .

Mississippi

2026-04-29