Hi, I'm wondering if anyone on the list has had any experience with the Lustre file system (http://www.lustre.org/) and if so what their thoughts are. rgh -- "It is possible to make things of great complexity out of things that are very simple. There is no conservation of simplicity" -- Stephen Wolfram Richard Heycock <rgh@roughage.com.au> key fingerprint : 909D CBFA C669 AC2F A937 AFA4 661B 9D21 EAAB 4291