[Bioclusters] NFS performance with multiple clients.

[Kevin Blanchard]

So within your Panasas setup you are using MPI ? What distro of linux 
are you using with it?

Joe Landman wrote:

> I cannot say enough good things about Panasas.  I took the iobench 
> code that is part of a common HPC benchmark, rewrote a portion of it 
> to use MPI, and did some tests.  It is nice to see 16 compute nodes 
> sustaining 1.2 GB/s write access to a single file system.
>
> It is not inexpensive, but if you need very high very scalable 
> performance, it is a great design.  Each rack shelf adds file system 
> bandwidth.
> If you want to know more about this, let me know.
>
> Joe
>
>
> jason.calvert at pharma.novartis.com wrote:
>
>>
>> You should look at Panasas, It is an appliance approach to a high 
>> performance filesystem which is similar to luster.  I think Garth, 
>> (founder of panasas and co-author of the RAID papers) was involved 
>> with lustre.
>>
>> Jason
>>
>>
>>
>>     *Lucas Carey <lcarey at odd.bio.sunysb.edu>*
>> Sent by: bioclusters-bounces at bioinformatics.org
>>
>> 11/24/2004 01:51 PM
>> Please respond to "Clustering,  compute farming & distributed 
>> computing in life science informatics"
>>
>>                    To:        "Clustering,  compute farming & 
>> distributed computing in life science informatics" 
>> <bioclusters at bioinformatics.org>
>>         cc:        (bcc: Jason Calvert/PH/Novartis)
>>         Subject:        Re: [Bioclusters] NFS performance with 
>> multiple clients.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> If its not too much work, I'd like to bug you for these Joe. 
>> Additionally, does anyone have any experience with Luster or any 
>> other parallel filesystems? Is it possible to run GPFS on non-IBM 
>> systems -- are they selling it?
>>
>> -Lucas
>>
>> On Wednesday, November 24, 2004 at 09:50 -0500, Joe Landman wrote:
>> >
>> > Third, there are a number of kernel tunables that can improve the disk
>> > IO performance.  If you bug me, I can find a link for you.
>> >
>> >
>> > You can also look at alternative architecture disks, or server 
>> mods.  If
>> > you contact me offline, I can give you some ideas.
>> >
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