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Whamcloud was established in 2010 by High-Performance Computing (HPC) experts Brent Gorda and Eric Barton when they recognized that future advances in computational performance were going to require a revolutionary advance in parallel storage. Whamcloud’s vision is to evolve the state of parallel storage by focusing strategically on high performance and cloud computing applications with demanding requirements for scalability.

Because Lustre is open source software, the Lustre community can leverage new developments as they become available. Meanwhile, the current stability and performance of Lustre make it attractive to the enterprise market, where the trend is toward using Big Data datasets for analytics and visualization.

Whamcloud has assembled a team of the best in the field of parallel file systems and HPC computing. On our staff are a significant number of the original developers of Lustre, many with over ten years experience working with Lustre, along with high performance computing veterans familiar with the technologies and challenges faced by the community. Our staff is in place and ready to lead the community toward exascale storage systems.

Life at Whamcloud

Employees enjoy a relaxed atmosphere with flexible hours and outstanding benefits for work life balance.