The EOFS (European Open File System) was founded 15th December 2010 in Munich as a Non-Profit organization. The purpose of the European Open File System SCE is the promotion and servicing of the member's needs.

• To promote the establishment and adoption of open source parallel file systems, sustain and enhance its quality, capabilities and functionality and ensure that specific requirements of European organizations, institutions and companies are upheld.
• To facilitate the extension of business operations to non-members.
• To initiate projects or to collaborate with existing projects at regional, national, European and international level in order to support Research & Development activities concerning Open File Systems.
• To ensure that engagement and activities with other organizations will not directly or indirectly interfere with the intellectual property or other contractual and legal obligations of its members.
• To operate as a non-profit organization.

• 2022-12-15 – The 2022 EOFS General Assembly took place -- the slides will be online shortly!
• 2022-11-15 – Lustre Birds of a Feather at SC22 in Dallas, TX
• 2022-05-31 – Lustre Birds of a Feather at ISC HPC
• 2021-11-30 – The 2021 general assembly took place -- the slides are now online!
• 2021-07-01 – Lustre Birds of a Feather at ISC HPC
• 2021-07-01 – BeeGFS Birds of a Feather at ISC HPC
• 2021-07-01 – The IO500 and the Virtual Institute for I/O
• 2021-06-28 – Data-Centric Computing for the Next Generation
• 2020-04-01 – LUG 2021 Call for Presentations
• 2020-12-15 – EOFS General Assembly 2020
• 2020-10-13 – LAD'20: Lustre Administrator and Developer Workshop 2020
• 2020-06-21 – (June 21-25) ISC 2020 in Frankfurt, M.
  • EOFS General Assembly on Monday, June 22 (8:00-9:00)
  • LUSTRE in HPC, BigData and AI: Status, New Features, and Roadmap
  • Shaping tomorrow with BeeGFS. The architecture, technology, product direction, and development plans
  • The Virtual Institute for IO and the IO500
  • Data-Centric Computing for the Next Generation
• 2020-06-09 – (June 09-12) LUG (Lustre User Group) at NERSC in Berkeley, CA, Cancelled

Further news

• SC21: Object-stores for HPC - a Devonian Explosion or an Extinction Event?
  Tuesday, 16 November 2021: 12:15pm - 1:15pm CST
• SC21: Analyzing Parallel I/O
  Tuesday, 16 November 2021 5:15pm - 6:45pm CST
• SC21: Accelerating HPC with BeeGFS. The BeeGFS Community BoF
  Wednesday, 17 November 2021 12:15pm - 1:15pm CST
• SC21: Lustre in HPC, AI, and the Cloud
  Thursday, 18 November 2021 12:15pm - 1:15pm CST
• EOFS General Assembly – Online (hosted by ParTec AG) – General Assembly for all EOFS members and EOFS candidates.
  Tuesday, Nov. 30th 15:30 – 17:00 CET (9:30am – 11:00am EST)