[Bioclusters] NFS performance with multiple clients.
Kevin Blanchard
kevin at kevinblanchard.com
Wed Nov 24 16:15:53 EST 2004
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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