HPC storage luminary Gary Grider, noted in his talk at the SC14 Seagate HPC User Group meeting, "The Future of Supercomputing" that he funded the development of the Lustre file-system (which can stream a data at a TB/s), and he believes it is possible we will see the end of such file-systems before he reaches retirement age. Instead, Gary sees object based storage similar to … [Read more...]