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Google Cloud Managed Lustre adds a lower-cost tier for AI and HPC workloads

cloud.google.com by Barak Epstein, Yuval Ehrental 6 min read Editor score 6/10

The Dynamic Tier is priced at 6 cents per GB-month and aims to keep hot data in a shared namespace with sub-millisecond latency. Consolidating storage and development workflows could reduce staging and dataset-copying toil for AI teams.

What

Managed Lustre’s Dynamic Tier offers a shared high-performance filesystem for AI and HPC workloads at 6 cents/GB*month.

How

Hot data is promoted to an SSD cache, while older checkpoints can be transparently demoted to an HDD capacity pool.

Why it matters

A single namespace for interactive development and large workloads can reduce manual data staging and dataset copying.

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