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    BeeGFS sounds interesting. Is it possible to say something general
    about how it compares to Lustre regarding performance?<br>
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    /jon<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 02/13/2017 05:54 PM, John Hanks
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      <div dir="ltr">We've had pretty good luck with BeeGFS lately
        running on SuperMicro vanilla hardware with ZFS as the
        underlying filesystem. It works pretty well for the cheap end of
        the hardware spectrum and BeeGFS is free and pretty amazing. It
        has held up to abuse under a very mixed and heavy workload and
        we can stream large sequential data into it fast enough to
        saturate a QDR IB link, all without any in depth tuning. While
        we don't have redundancy (other than raidz3), BeeGFS can be set
        up with some redundancy between metadata servers and mirroring
        between storage. <a moz-do-not-send="true"
          href="http://www.beegfs.com/content/">http://www.beegfs.com/content/</a>
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            <div>jbh</div>
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          <div dir="ltr">On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at 7:40 PM Alex Chekholko
            <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
              href="mailto:alex.chekholko@gmail.com">alex.chekholko@gmail.com</a>>
            wrote:<br>
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            .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">If you
            have a preference for Free Software, GlusterFS would work,
            unless you have many millions of small files. It would also
            depend on your available hardware, as there is not a 1-to-1
            correspondence between a typical GPFS setup and a typical
            GlusterFS setup. But at least it is free and easy to try
            out. The mailing list is active, the software is now mature
            ( I last used GlusterFS a few years ago) and you can buy
            support from Red Hat if you like.<br class="gmail_msg">
            <br class="gmail_msg">
            Take a look at the RH whitepapers about typical GlusterFS
            architecture.<br class="gmail_msg">
            <br class="gmail_msg">
            CephFS, on the other hand, is not yet mature enough, IMHO.<br
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              <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg">On Mon, Feb 13, 2017 at
                8:31 AM Justin Y. Shi <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
                  href="mailto:shi@temple.edu" class="gmail_msg"
                  target="_blank">shi@temple.edu</a>> wrote:<br
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                <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg">Maybe you would
                  consider Scality (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
                    href="http://www.scality.com/" class="gmail_msg"
                    target="_blank">http://www.scality.com/</a>) for
                  your growth concerns. If you need speed, DDN is faster
                  in rapid data ingestion and for extreme HPC data
                  needs.</div>
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                  <div class="gmail_msg">Justin </div>
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                  <div class="gmail_quote gmail_msg">On Mon, Feb 13,
                    2017 at 4:32 AM, Tony Brian Albers <span dir="ltr"
                      class="gmail_msg"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
                        href="mailto:tba@kb.dk" class="gmail_msg"
                        target="_blank">tba@kb.dk</a>></span> wrote:<br
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                    <blockquote class="gmail_quote gmail_msg"
                      style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc
                      solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="gmail_msg">On
                        2017-02-13 09:36, Benson Muite wrote:<br
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                        > Hi,<br class="gmail_msg">
                        ><br class="gmail_msg">
                        > Do you have any performance requirements?<br
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                        ><br class="gmail_msg">
                        > Benson<br class="gmail_msg">
                        ><br class="gmail_msg">
                        > On 02/13/2017 09:55 AM, Tony Brian Albers
                        wrote:<br class="gmail_msg">
                        >> Hi guys,<br class="gmail_msg">
                        >><br class="gmail_msg">
                        >> So, we're running a small(as in a small
                        number of nodes(10), not<br class="gmail_msg">
                        >> storage(170TB)) hadoop cluster here.
                        Right now we're on IBM Spectrum<br
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                        >> Scale(GPFS) which works fine and has
                        POSIX support. On top of GPFS we<br
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                        >> have a GPFS transparency connector so
                        that HDFS uses GPFS.<br class="gmail_msg">
                        >><br class="gmail_msg">
                        >> Now, if I'd like to replace GPFS with
                        something else, what should I use?<br
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                        >> It needs to be a fault-tolerant DFS,
                        with POSIX support(so that users<br
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                        >> can move data to and from it with
                        standard tools).<br class="gmail_msg">
                        >><br class="gmail_msg">
                        >> I've looked at MooseFS which seems to
                        be able to do the trick, but are<br
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                        >> there any others that might do?<br
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                        >><br class="gmail_msg">
                        >> TIA<br class="gmail_msg">
                        >><br class="gmail_msg">
                        ><br class="gmail_msg">
                        <br class="gmail_msg">
                      </span>Well, we're not going to be doing a huge
                      amount of I/O. So performance<br class="gmail_msg">
                      requirements are not high. But ingest needs to be
                      really fast, we're<br class="gmail_msg">
                      talking tens of terabytes here.<br
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                          /tony<br class="gmail_msg">
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                        --<br class="gmail_msg">
                        Best regards,<br class="gmail_msg">
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                        Tony Albers<br class="gmail_msg">
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