Managed Lustre overview

Managed Lustre is available by invitation only. If you'd like to request access to Managed Lustre in your Google Cloud project, contact your sales representative.

Google Cloud Managed Lustre delivers a high-performance, fully managed parallel file system optimized for AI and HPC applications. With petabyte-scale capacity and up to 1 TB/s throughput, Managed Lustre facilitates the migration of demanding workloads to the cloud.

Highlights

  • Developed in collaboration with DDN, the leading provider and primary maintainer of the Lustre file system.
  • Supports extreme IOPs and low latency.
  • POSIX compliance ensures compatibility with existing applications, tools, and workflows.
  • Integrated with Compute Engine and Google Kubernetes Engine, allowing you to mount high-performance storage to your virtual machines and containerized applications.
  • Provides high-speed and fully managed transfers into and out of Cloud Storage.

Performance

Metric Result
Storage capacity From 18 TiB up to 1 PB (936 TiB)
Throughput Up to 1 TB/s
IOPS Thousands of IOPS/TiB
Maximum file size 0.5 PiB

Use Cases

  • High-performance computing: Managed Lustre excels in HPC environments where multiple compute nodes need fast and consistent access to shared data for simulations, modeling, and analysis.

  • Machine learning: Managed Lustre can handle the large datasets and high throughput requirements of machine learning workloads, enabling efficient training and inference.