Dave Cremins
Dave Cremins is a Principal Cloud Software Engineer at OPENCHIP, where he specializes in designing and building advanced cloud‑native systems at scale. With deep expertise in distributed architectures, automation, and infrastructure engineering, Dave plays a key role in shaping technical strategy and delivering high‑impact engineering solutions across the organization.
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Lustre powers approximately 70% of TOP500 supercomputers and is essential infrastructure for high-performance computing (HPC). Our work enables RISC-V systems to access Lustre storage clusters, addressing a critical gap in the RISC-V HPC ecosystem. The port required only 8 minimal patches (19 lines changed across 9 files) to Lustre 2.17.0, demonstrating the maturity of both the RISC-V Linux ecosystem and Lustre’s portable codebase. We validated functionality through QEMU-based testing with multi-client mount operations, FIO, and IOR benchmarks. The patches are being submitted upstream to the Lustre project for inclusion in future releases.