<br style><span style>> What about an easy to setup cluster file system such as FhGFS? As one of</span><br style><span style>> its developers I'm a bit biased of course, but then I'm also familiar</span><br style>
<span style>> with Lustre, an I think FhGFS is far more easiy to setup. We also do not</span><br style><span style>> have the problem to run clients and servers on the same node and so of</span><br style><span style>> our customers make heavy use of that and use their compute nodes as</span><br style>
<span style>> storage servers. That should a provide the same or better throughput as</span><br style><span style>> your torrent system.</span><br style><span style>></span><br style><span style>> Cheers,</span><br style>
<span style>> Bernd</span><br style><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font><div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">We've been curious about FhGFS but the licensing did not leave us confident we would always have access to it if we integrated it into our business and made available to our users. Serious success could essentially cause an epic failure if the license made it expensive to us (as commercial users) suddenly. As a "cloud" based hpc provider I thought it was too risky and have been happy with Lustre and it's affiliates.</font></div>
<div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">Specifically this clause could be a problem:</font></div><div><pre style="word-wrap:break-word;white-space:pre-wrap">
3.2 LICENSEE may NOT:</pre><pre style="word-wrap:break-word;white-space:pre-wrap">...</pre><pre style="word-wrap:break-word;white-space:pre-wrap">- rent or lease the LICENSED SOFTWARE and DOCUMENTATION to any third party</pre>
<pre style="word-wrap:break-word;white-space:pre-wrap">...</pre><pre style="word-wrap:break-word;white-space:pre-wrap">Does anyone think the license was intended to block cloud providers making it available as part of a cloud based HPC solution? Am I mis-interpreting this? Not looking for a legal-ese battle but I am wondering if other licenses commonly used in cloud contexts have similar language. Anyone think the FS is fantastic enough that I should fight (spend money on lawyers and licenses) to put it in front of "Cloud" HPC users?</pre>
<pre style="word-wrap:break-word;white-space:pre-wrap">Cheers!</pre><pre style="word-wrap:break-word;white-space:pre-wrap">Greg</pre><pre style="word-wrap:break-word;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></pre></div>